school to the labor market. Limited skills relative to the demands of employers also play a role. This paper proposes three … major policy initiatives for upgrading and expanding worker training to bolster productivity and wages: 1) Improve access to … in-demand training through better information, technology, and targeted funding; 2) Strengthen connections between career …

extensive language skills, but have deficits in 'working with computer systems' and 'programming'. Pro-active training of …'Future skills'; increase employees' prospects in the labor market, particularly in dynamic times, such as the current … volumes. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the future skills of flight attendants play an important role when …

Can participation in job-related training foster adults' general skills such as numeracy? Although job-related training … general skills. However, a positive cross-sectional relationship between training and skills could reflect training effects on … skills, self-selection into training of those with higher skills, or both. In this chapter, we aim to unravel these …

"communication and soft skills" training which is associated with more non-routine interactive tasks. …This study investigates the impact of non-formal training on job tasks of workers. The analysis is based on panel data … indicate that after training workers are more engaged in non-routine interactive tasks than they were before training. Analyses …