representative surveys from Ghana and Kenya to shed light on the quality and distribution of skills in the labor markets of these … countries. Skills in both countries are found to be unevenly distributed, with significant parts of the labor force being … essentially unskilled. Similarly designed surveys from France, Germany, and the UK further allow comparing skills and formal …

, manufacturing, green growth and environment. The objective is to inspire thought in the reader and to highlight the necessity for a … the industrial structure (primarily in manufacturing). The first step towards accomplishing this task was to examine the …

Midlands as a second case study, the book posits that manufacturing is more important to the UK than financial services and … that key to a successful strategy of economic re-balancing is a need to ensure adequate skills provision and essential …

with cognitive skills than with quantitative measures of human capital, such as years of schooling. Chapter 3 investigates …