Securing commitment to skill formation policies

New Political Economy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 134-138

  Green, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0345275271     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563469808406339     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. David Ashton & Francis Green, Education, Training and the Global Economy (Edward Elgar, 1996).
2. D. Ashton, F. Green, D. James & J. Sung, Education and Training for Development: The Political Economy of Skill Formation in East Asian Newly Industrialised Economies (Routledge, forthcoming).
3. Department for Education and Employment, Education Statistics 1996 (HMSO, 1996).
4. In 1987 some 43 per cent of the British population reported unsatisfied training demands. See M. Rigg, Training in Britain: Individuals' Perspectives (HMSO, 1989).
5. The longest available consistent and representative trend shows employees doing an average of 39 minutes per week in off-the-job training in 1985, rising only to 40 minutes per week in 1995. See A. Felstead, F. Green & K. Mayhew, Getting The Measure of Training, Centre for Industrial Policy and Performance, University of Leeds, 1997.
6. Wolfgang Streeck, 'Skills and the Limits of Neoliberalism: The Enterprise of the Future as a Place of Learning', Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1989), pp. 89-104.
7. K. Koike & T. Inoki (Eds), Skill Formation in Japan and Southeast Asia (University of Tokyo Press, 1990).
8. C. Edwards, 'State failure or market failure? The 10 steps to a levy-grant system of vocational training', in: M. Godfrey (Ed.), Skill Development for International Competitiveness (Edward Elgar, 1997).