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Research papers, synthesis reports, country and programme studies are collected from many academic institutions and national, regional and international professional associations.

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Can improving UK skills levels reduce poverty and income inequality by 2020?

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Can improving UK skills levels reduce poverty and income inequality by 2020?

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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.

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Training quality and relevance

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Research papers

Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.

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Publication Date:

06 Jul 2015

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This report was part of a programme on the future of the UK labour market in association with the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. Improving skills among the workforce is seen as fundamental to achieving a more competitive economy and maintaining productivity, with a world-class skills base considered a key driver of competitive advantage (BIS, 2010). This report uses data from the British Household Panel Survey to investigate how projected improvements in skills levels in the United Kingdom economy between now and 2020 will affect rates of poverty and income inequality.

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Economic and social development

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Europe and Central Asia

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Preparation for the World of Work: Secondary and Higher Secondary Education in India

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Publication Date:

29 May 2015

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Secondary education is, perhaps, the most important part of an individual’s education as it is during these years that a student decides what she is going to take up for further education. The present report examines the secondary and higher secondary education system in India and discusses how it prepares the student for the world of work. It focuses on the vocational training that is imparted during the four years of secondary (and higher secondary) education. A description of the current state of vocational education at secondary level, different institutes/government agencies offering vocational courses, curriculum followed by different agencies, teaching methodology used, assessment methodology and certification pattern is provided. In-depth analysis of the problems faced and recommendations for the future are presented.

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School-to-work transition

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Skills and training policy

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TVET systems

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661

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Asia and the Pacific

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Education and skills post-2015: what evidence, whose perspectives?

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Education and skills post-2015: what evidence, whose perspectives?

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Access to training

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Access for all to good quality education, vocational training and workplace learning is a fundamental principle of social cohesion and economic growth. Some groups of people may require targeted attention if they are to benefit from education, training and employment opportunities.

This is particularly the case for disadvantaged youth, lower skilled workers, people with disabilities, and people in rural communities. The attractiveness of vocational education and training is enhanced when combined with entrepreneurship training and when public policies encourage utilization of higher skills by business.

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26 May 2015

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This working paper is concerned with the evidence-base and justification for the post- 2015 education and skills objectives, goals and targets that are being recommended. It will review the major research-based material making the case for education and skills goals.

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Skills and training policy

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Global

Managing the TVET institution: Computer simulation

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Managing the TVET institution: Computer simulation

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ILO

The International Labour Organization is the tripartite U.N. agency that promotes Decent Work through employment, social security, labour standards and social dialogue. Its work on skills development is guided by the conceptual framework on Skills to improve productivity, employment growth, and development agreed in 2008 by representatives of Governments, Employers’ Associations and Workers’ Associations. Research, policy advice, and pilot projects and technical cooperation programmes to apply good practices in different circumstances across its 185 member States aims to boost the employability of workers, the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, and the inclusiveness of economic growth. The ILO Secretariat in offices in 40 countries works with Ministries of Labour, employers’ organizations, and trade unions to integrate skills development into national and sector development strategies in order to better meet current labour market needs and to prepare for the jobs of the future; to expand access to employment-related training so that youth, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are better able to acquire skills and secure productive and decent work; and to improve the ability of public employment services to provide career guidance, maintain labour exchange services, and deliver active labour market programmes.For more information regarding the ILO’s work on skills and employability go to: http://www.ilo.org/skills/lang--en/index.htm; for ILO/Cinterfor's Knowledge Management Plarform, see: http://www.oitcinterfor.org

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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Anticipating and building skills for the future is essential to a rapidly changing labour market. This applies to changes in the types and levels of skills needed as well as in occupational and technical areas. Effective methods to anticipate future skills needs and avoid potential mismatches include: sustained dialogue between employers and trainers, coordination across government institutions, labour market information systems, employment services and performance reviews of training institutions.

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Presentations, discussion papers, meeting reports, promotional materials, videos, fact sheets, brochures and newsletters on skills development for employment.

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Publication Date:

20 May 2015

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About the project

Goals: development of support mechanisms and training programmes for modern labour market demands that match the innovative economic development.

Target audience: managers of TVET institutions.

Project proposal: interactive course based on a computer simulation (face-to-face and distant formats).

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Information and communication technologies

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skills-and-training-policy

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Skills anticipation

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skills-anticipation

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Skills indicators

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TVET systems

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Global

No quick fix: Policies to support the labour market integration of new arrivals in Sweden

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															No quick fix: Policies to support the labour market integration of new arrivals in Sweden
													

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ILO

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According to the ILO global estimates on migrant workers, there were around 164 million migrant workers in 2017.

Migrant workers contribute to growth and development in their countries of destination, while countries of origin greatly benefit from their remittances and the skills acquired during their migration experience. Yet, many migrant workers face challenges in accessing quality training and decent jobs including under-utilization of skills, a lack of employment or training opportunities, lack of information, and exploitation of low-skilled workers.

To address these challenges, countries need to strengthen skills anticipation systems to inform migration policies, increase access to education and training, and establish bilateral or multilateral recognition of qualifications and skills.

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18 May 2015

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The Swedish economy has emerged from the economic turbulence of recent years in a relatively strong position. But not all groups are performing well. Youth with limited education and non-European immigrants are groups that are growing in size, and that face difficulties competing in the labor market. The difference in the employment rates of the native and foreign born in Sweden is among the largest recorded in the OECD. To improve its long-term prospect, Sweden faces the challenge of better facilitating new arrival’s labor market integration.

This report describes how Sweden is trying to overcome these labor market integration challenges and analyses how successful its workforce development and integration policies have been in helping immigrants progress from unskilled or low-skilled work to middle-skilled jobs. It first discusses the structural conditions of the labor market and how these affect labor market integration, then analyses policies to support labor market integration (employment services, skills recognition services, language training, and vocational training), and concludes by offering some recommendations.

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Employability

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Using technology foresights for identifying future skills needs

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Using technology foresights for identifying future skills needs

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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Presentations, discussion papers, meeting reports, promotional materials, videos, fact sheets, brochures and newsletters on skills development for employment.

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Publication Date:

13 May 2015

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Project: Applying the G20 Training Strategy

The problem of identifying future skills needs is becoming more and more acute in the context of the current dynamics of the global economy. In the turbulent times the speed of change is growing while the global competition in numerous sectors is further becoming tighter, with former leaders leaving and new actors joining the game. To avoid disorientation caused by the pace of the economic globalization, governments need to look forward to the long-term development of the critical sectors of the national economy. In particular, of interest are the technology-driven industries – as the focal points concentrating research and development, foreign direct investment, talent and cutting-edge technology. The use of technologies increases labour productivity and economic competitiveness and may potentially fuel growth with a positive impact on employment. The technology can partially substitute the labour thus influencing the structure of the demand: skill-intensive jobs become more sought-after while jobs with routine tasks can be fully substituted by the technological solutions.

With the launch of Skills Foresight project under the auspices of the G20 Training Strategy, an attempt was made to bridge the two areas of research and planning to introduce a technology foresight-based method of skills anticipation built around international best practices. One of the key landmarks of the project was the Global Workshop “Using Technology Foresights for Identifying Future Skills Needs” which featured leading skills anticipation and technology foresight experts across the globe. The workshop results are presented in this publication.

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G20 Training Strategy

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Skills anticipation

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Skills re-training

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Skills upgrading

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Global

Technology at work: The future of innovation and employment

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Technology at work: The future of innovation and employment

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Employers' organizations

Employers invest in training in order to improve productivity, innovate and adopt new technologies, and compete in changing markets. Case studies and research from individual employers and associations of employers on the Global KSP deal with apprenticeship and workplace skills provision, quality assurance and governance of training institutions, and employers’ roles in anticipating skill needs and in influencing national and sector policies on skills development.

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07 May 2015

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The 21st century has already brought remarkable technological achievements. The leading corporations of the digital age — including YouTube, Facebook and eBay — barely existed only a decade ago. The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the year Skype was first released. The first iPhone was launched in 2007 and in 2010 Google announced their first fully autonomous car. Yet, the benefits of these developments have not been widely shared.

Real median wages have stagnated in about half of all OECD countries since 2000, and have fallen even further behind growth in productivity. Between 1980 and 2000, each pound of UK gross domestic product (GDP) growth, for example, was accompanied by around 90 pence of median wage growth. Over the period 2000 to 2007, the equivalent number was 43 pence.

This report introduces a vision to the future of innovation and employment. While the concern over technological unemployment has so far proven to be exaggerated, the reason why human labour has prevailed relates to its ability to acquire new skills. Yet this will become increasingly challenging as new work requires a higher degree of cognitive abilities. At a time when technological change is happening even faster, a main hurdle for workers to adapt is thus the surging costs of education.

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engineering

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Information and communication technologies

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information-and-communication-technologies

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skills-anticipation

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Technology

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technology

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Creating valuable skills: A new framework for migration as development

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Creating valuable skills: A new framework for migration as development

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Information is gathered from other international organizations that promote skills development and the transition from education and training to work. The Interagency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET) was established in 2009 to share research findings, coordinate joint research endeavours, and improve collaboration among organizations working at the international and national levels.

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According to the ILO global estimates on migrant workers, there were around 164 million migrant workers in 2017.

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Publication Date:

02 Mar 2015

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International migration has reached an all-time high, increasing from 150 million to 214 million migrants over the past ten years. Experts predict that this flow of migrants will continue to accelerate in the next few decades. Populations in the developed world are aging, partly contributing to the creation of labour shortages. Simultaneously there is an increasing number of unemployed youth in the developing world, creating incentive to migrate. Not only is there a labour gap geographically, but changes in industry have also changed global demand for skills.

Given these changes, this paper proposes to look at three case studies: the Philippines, Australia and the Pacific Islands, and Mexico and the U.S. in order to highlight the key lessons learned from these cases and to provide policy recommendations.

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Low skilled workers

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Migrant workers

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migrant-workers

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681

Migration policy

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migration-policy

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Australia

Mexico

Philippines

The Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2013

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The Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2013

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Lifelong learning

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There is a critical need for a greater overall investment in education and training, particularly in developing countries. Education and training investments should be closely linked to economic and employment growth strategies and programmes. Responsibility should be shared between the government (primary responsibility), enterprises, the social partners, and the individual. To make lifelong learning for all a reality, countries will need to make major reforms of their vocational and education and training systems. School-to-work schemes for young people should integrate education with workplace learning. Training systems need to become more flexible and responsive to rapidly changing skill requirements. Reforms should also focus on how learning can be facilitated, not just on training for specific occupational categories.

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Case studies that document good practices and illustrate the benefits and lessons learnt of particular approaches or methods in real practice.

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23 Jan 2014

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The Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) measures the performance of countries across the world on their talent competitiveness, i.e. their ability to attract, develop and retain talent. The Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) is an innovative, annual benchmarking study, encompassing 103 countries. The GTCI introduces the dimension of talent/human capital and its connection to competitiveness. The 48 variables are grouped into talent enablers, attraction, growth, retention as well as output in terms of vocational and global knowledge skills.

The GTCI 2013 is a joint endeavor among INSEAD, Human Capital Leadership Institute and Adecco Group.

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Employability

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employability

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643

Human resources development

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human-resources-development

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118

Skills mismatch

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skills-mismatch

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654

Vocational training

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vocational-training

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124

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Global

Youth poverty in Accra: Managing urban livelihoods in informal apprenticeships

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Youth poverty in Accra: Managing urban livelihoods in informal apprenticeships

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ILO

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16 May 2013

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The paper complements the ILO series of reports on informal apprenticeship that informs country programmes and policies. The ILO’s work programme on upgrading informal apprenticeship aims at generating knowledge on core features of the system, enhancing its quality, addressing its weaknesses, and identifying mechanisms to sustain its function of retaining and improving skills levels in local, regional and national economies.

The study analyses young peoples’ motives for pursuing an apprenticeship and identification of the challenges they confront in transitioning to a decent job. Its holistic approach considers barriers to accessing apprenticeship positions, challenges to completing an apprenticeship, and difficulties in then gaining productive decent work, which in many cases is associated with opening a workshop of one’s own. The report includes the views of current apprentices and craftspeople, in addition to youths who dropped out of an apprenticeship and those that changed careers after completing an apprenticeship.

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