The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching a specific skill to ease the transition into employment. However, in 1997, the Swedish unemployed could choose general/theoretical training through enrollment in one year of full-time studies at the upper secondary school level....

Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills, even though Denmark spends more than many OECD countries on education, labour market policies and adult learning. Sluggish productivity growth over the past two decades raises the...

Die Praxis der Trainingsarbeit (Arbeitsbedingungen) im Spannungsfeld zwischen den programmatischen Vorgaben von Lifelong Learning, Arbeitsmarktpolitik, betriebswirtschaftlichen Logiken und individueller Motivation stand im Mittelpunkt der Tagung "Kompetenzen, Berufsfelder und Arbeitsbedingungen...