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Additional authors

1. Lynch, Lisa M.

Description

1. ix, 319 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. How can today's workforce keep pace with an increasingly competitive global economy? As new technologies rapidly transform the workplace, employee requirements are changing and workers must adapt to different working conditions. This volume compares new evidence on the returns from worker training in the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Japan, Norway, and the Netherlands. The authors focus on Germany's widespread, formal apprenticeship programs; the U.S. system of learning-by-doing; Japan's low employee turnover and extensive company training; and Britain's government-led and school-based training schemes. The evidence shows that, overall, training in the workplace is more effective than training in schools. Moreover, even when U.S. firms spend as much on training as other countries do, their employees may still be less skilled than workers in Europe or Japan.
2. Training and the Private Sector points to training programs in Germany, Japan, and other developed countries as models for creating a workforce in the United States that can compete more successfully in today's economy.

Series statement

1. NBER Comparative labor markets series

Uniform title

1. NBER Comparative labor markets series

Subject

1. Occupational training
2. Occupational training > United States
3. vocational training
4. 85.04 teaching, profession and organizations of business administration and organization science
5. Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques
6. Formation professionnelle
7. Formation dans l'entreprise
8. Analyse comparative
9. Occupational training
10. Berufsbildung
11. Betriebliche Fortbildung
12. Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
13. Aufsatzsammlung
14. Personeelsopleiding
15. Vergelijkende economie
16. training system
17. initial training
18. in plant training
19. young workers
20. apprenticeship
21. alternating training
22. training employment relationship
23. on the job training
24. off the job training
25. training levy
26. labour productivity
27. wages
28. vocational education
29. educational expenditure
30. statistical table
31. Occupational training > Cross-cultural studies
32. Employees > Training of > Cross-cultural studies
33. système de formation
34. formation professionnelle
35. formation initiale
36. formation dans l'entreprise
37. jeune travailleur
38. apprentissage
39. formation en alternance
40. relation formation-emploi
41. formation sur le tas
42. formation en dehors du poste
43. taxe de formation professionnelle
44. productivité du travail
45. salaire
46. enseignement professionnel
47. dépenses d'éducation
48. tableau statistique
49. sistema de formación
50. formación profesional
51. formación inicial
52. formación en la empresa
53. joven trabajador
54. aprendizaje
55. formación alternada
56. relación formación empleo
57. formación en el lugar de trabajo
58. formación fuera del lugar de trabajo
59. impuesto de formación
60. productividad del trabajo
61. salario
62. enseñanza profesional
63. presupuesto de la educación
64. cuadros estadísticos
65. United States
66. USA
67. France
68. Germany
69. Japan
70. Netherlands
71. Norway
72. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
73. USA
74. Allemagne
75. Japon
76. Pays-Bas
77. Norvège
78. Etats-Unis
79. Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
80. Alemania
81. Francia
82. Japón
83. Países Bajos
84. Noruega
85. Estados Unidos
86. Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte

Genre/Form

1. bibliography.
2. graph.
3. bibliographie.
4. graphique.
5. bibliografía.
6. gráfico.

Contents

1. Reconciling markets and institutions : the German apprenticeship system / David Soskice -- The British system of youth training : a comparison with Germany / Nicholas Oulton and Hilary Steedman -- Strategic adjustments in training : a comparative analysis of the U.S. and German automobile industries / Peter B. Berg -- Employment-based training in Japanese firms in Japan and in the United States : experiences of automobile manufacturers / Masanori Hashimoto -- Productivity changes without formal training / Andrew Weiss -- The impact of previous training on productivity and wages / John H. Bishop -- Determinants of young males' schooling and training choices / Stephen V. Cameron and James J. Heckman -- Training at work : a comparison of U.S. and British youths / David G. Blanchflower and Lisa M. Lynch -- Public- and private-sector training of young people in Britain / Peter J. Dolton, Gerald H. Makepeace, and John G. Treble -- Vocational education and training in Britain and Norway / Peter Elias, Erik Hernaes, and Meredith Baker -- Returns to within-company schooling of employees : the case of the Netherlands / Wim Groot, Joop Hartog, and Hessel Oosterbeek.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.