Short-term education and skills training programs are a popular way to meet the needs of unemployed, out-of-school youth by providing them with an opportunity to quickly acquire qualifications and skills that can lead to productive employment. This paper reviews the global evidence to identify...

Indian policymakers - like most of their counterparts across the developing and developed world - have been concerned with the employability of their working-age populations in particular, for obvious economic and sociopolitical reasons. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as...

Die Qualifikation der Einwohner eines Landes ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für die Leistungsfähigkeit einer Volkswirtschaft. Vor dem Hintergrund einer alternden Bevölkerung in Deutschland spielen die beruflichen Bildungsabschlüsse – hier unterschieden nach Geschlecht, Altersklasse und...

"Skills for a Modern Ukraine provides new evidence on the nature of skills that are valued in the labor market and proposes a set of policy options to improve the formatio and use of skills. Household and firm surveys and a data set of online job vacancies show that workers need a mix of...