Das Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (AMS) hat im Oktober 2009 ein "AMS Standing Committee on New Skills" mit der Zielsetzung eingesetzt, Zeiten der krisenbedingten betrieblichen Unterauslastung zu nutzen, um in Verbindung mit arbeitsmarktpolitischen Unterstützungsmaßnahmen Arbeitskräfte...

The literature on skill-biased technological change concentrates on highly skilled and unskilled employees. It is unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from the dual apprenticeship system-increase or not. In...

"Across the developed world, most of us who work now earn our living in the service sector. However, the issue of what kind of service economy is sustainable and desirable, both in economic and social terms, is rarely debated. This book argues that this needs to change. National governments have...

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is mostly poorly proxied. The simple use of the most common proxy, average years of schooling of the working-age population, misspecifies the relationship between education and the...