productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education …

growth. Each of these results are consistent with wage compression that skills acquired through training and learning …

with the country’s deficit in intermediate skills. In addition to raising skill levels, there has been a further aim of … many years to apprentice training, far too few young people benefit and not enough high value skills have been developed …. The coalition government should develop a simpler model that prioritises high skills and directs public funds for …