Colin Crouch

David Finegold

Mari Sako

High priority is now given to training and education in all industrial countries to meet the demands of the 'new knowledge economy'. This book analyses the policies and provision of vocational education in advanced industrial countries (UK, USA, Japan, Sweden, etc.) against the backdrop of changing labour markets. In doing so it challenges widely held assumptions about skills and employment growth, and explores the roles that government and the private sector could play in developing advanced skills policies and initiatives.

The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries

Are Skills the Answer?

Pepper D. Culpepper

In recent years the German economy has grown sluggishly and created few new jobs. These developments have led observers to question the future viability of a model that in the past seemed able to combine economic growth, competitiveness in export markets, and low social inequality. This volume brings together empirical and comparative research from across the social sciences to examine whether or not Germany's system of skill provision is still capable of meeting the economic and social challenges now facing all the advanced capitalist economies. At issue is the question of whether or not the celebrated German training system, an essential element of the high-skill, high-wage equilibrium, can continue to provide the skills necessary for German companies to hold their economic niche in a world characterized by increasing trade and financial interdependence. Combining an examination of the competitiveness of the German training system with an analysis of the robustness of the political institutions that support it, this volume seeks to understand the extent to which the German system for imparting craft skills can adjust to changes in the organization of production in the advanced industrial states.

Sustaining Comparative Advantage in a Global Economy

The German Skills Machine

David McFarland

William Richardson

Laurel McFarland

Examines how the British government borrowed ideas from the US for education and training reforms during the last years of the Thatcher government. Describes the transplanting of magnet schools, school choice experiments, business-education compacts, and the federal student loan program. Also considers the problems of grafting such innovations onto a different education structure, and predicts further interchange in the future. The 11 papers are from a July 1990 conference (location not noted). No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Transatlantic Market in Education and Training Reform

Something Borrowed, Something Learned?

David Finegold

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