Skills Upgrading : New Policy Perspectives.

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's Co-operative Action Programme on Local Economic and Employment Development initiated a Study on Skills Upgrading for the Low-qualified in order to assess a variety of government, business, and civil society experiments intended to "fill the gap between labour market policy and vocational training, correct workers' weaknesses, and meet employers' evolving needs." This volume reports on those assessments and the lessons drawn from them and includes chapters describing the rationale for shifting skills upgrading policies, examining education and training practices for the low-skilled in Denmark, discussing the region implementation of the British Employer Training Pilots programs, analyzing case studies of sectoral initiatives to train low-qualified incumbent workers in the United States, exploring skill upgrading programs in Flemish Belgium, and analyzing the evidence of skills upgrading initiatives from the Canadian province of Alberta and territory of the Northwest Territories. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)