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The Right Skills for the Job?: Rethinking Effective Training Policies for Workers
Author(s): Rita Almeida (Editor), Jere Behrman (Editor), David Robalino (Editor)
- Publisher: World Bank Publications
- Publication Date: 5 July 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 0821387146
- ISBN-13: 9780821387146
Book Description
Creating jobs and increasing productivity are at the top of agenda for policymakers across the world. Knowledge accumulation and skills are recognized as central in this process. More-educated workers not only have better employment opportunities, earn more, and have more stable and rewarding jobs, but also they are more adaptable and mobile. Workers who acquire more skills also make other workers and capital more productive and, within the firm, they facilitate the adaptation, adoption, and ultimately invention of new technologies. This is crucial to enable economic diversification, productivity growth, and ultimately raise the standards of living of the population
