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 …

education training (VET) decision making from a subject-oriented perspective. This paper considers occupational … (continuous) vocational education and training. They also demonstrated that subjective perceptions of the national VET system …

Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However …, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary … agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often previously unemployed, paid work in combination with training should lead …

the backlash is also profound—France, for example—and where it has been more muted—such as Germany. In both the United … States and France, gross Gini coefficients have increased sharply during the past thirty or so years. The French state has …. And yet: France is still in the midst of an anti-systemic populist revolt. There is only one inescapable conclusion: It is …