Adult learning and a resulting up-skilling of the population is seen as a key factor for employment, innovation and growth as the vast literature on “lifelong learning” suggests. Commonly, adult learning is understood as the participation in training classes, which either provide a formal...

Work is both an essential part of our daily lives and one of the major policy concerns across Europe. Yet the public debate of labour issues is all too often driven by political rhetoric and short-term concerns. In this volume, researchers from seven European countries explain, in accessible...

Adult learning is seen as a key factor for enhancing employment, innovation and growth, and it should concern all age cohorts. The aim of this paper is to understand the points in the life cycle at which adult learning takes place and whether it leads to reaching a medium or high level of...