Getting Skills Right Career Guidance for Low-Qualified Workers in Germany

Getting Skills Right Career Guidance for Low-Qualified Workers in Germany
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9264792902

In Germany, the three ‘Ds’ – Digitalisation, Decarbonisation and Demographic change – are dominating the headlines. Countless studies analyse the impact of these megatrends on the world of work and document how job profiles are changing. The growing demand for high-level cognitive skills and complex social interaction skills is challenging particularly low-qualified workers.

Getting Skills Right Continuing Education and Training in Germany

Getting Skills Right Continuing Education and Training in Germany
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2021-04-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9264328440

Germany has a strong skill development system. The country’s 15‐year‐old students performed above the OECD average in the last (2018) edition of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), continuing a trend of significant improvement since PISA’s first edition in 2000.

Getting Skills Right: Future-Ready Adult Learning Systems

Getting Skills Right: Future-Ready Adult Learning Systems
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2019-02-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9264311750

With digitalisation, deepening globalisation and population ageing, the world of work is changing. The extent to which individuals, firms and economies can harness the benefits of these changes critically depends on the readiness of adult learning systems to help people develop relevant skills ...

Getting Skills Right Career Guidance for Adults in a Changing World of Work

Getting Skills Right Career Guidance for Adults in a Changing World of Work
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9264631631

Career guidance is a fundamental policy lever to help adults successfully navigate a constantly evolving labour market through advice and information on job and training opportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of career guidance services. This report scopes out initiatives in the area of career guidance for adults in OECD countries.

OECD Economic Surveys: Germany 2023

OECD Economic Surveys: Germany 2023
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2023-05-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9264452877

After a decade of strong export-led growth, decreasing unemployment and fiscal surpluses, the COVID-19 pandemic and the energy crisis have revealed structural vulnerabilities and emphasised the need for accelerating the green and digital transitions. At the same time, rapid population ageing increases public spending pressures and exacerbates skilled labour shortages.

Getting Skills Right The New Workplace in Japan Skills for a Strong Recovery

Getting Skills Right The New Workplace in Japan Skills for a Strong Recovery
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9264400753

This report examines how skill requirements have been evolving in Japan prior and during the COVID-19 crisis. It examines changes in the skills composition of Japan’s workforce as well as policy efforts to improve the accessibility of career guidance, broaden training participation and foster the adoption of teleworking practices.

Getting Skills Right Career Guidance for Adults in Canada

Getting Skills Right Career Guidance for Adults in Canada
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2022-02-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9264693653

In the context of considerable labour market change, many adults in Canada are being challenged to consider alternative career paths, and to upskill or retrain. Career guidance has the potential to facilitate employment transitions: not only from the education system to the labour market, but also from unemployment to employment, and from declining to growing sectors.

Getting Skills Right Career Guidance for Adults in Latin America

Getting Skills Right Career Guidance for Adults in Latin America
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9264385096

Career guidance for adults is a fundamental lever to help adults successfully navigate constantly evolving labour markets. As labour markets in Latin America are hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and mega trends such as globalisation and digitalisation continue to impact labour demand, support is urgently needed.

Getting Skills Right Incentives for SMEs to Invest in Skills Lessons from European Good Practices

Getting Skills Right Incentives for SMEs to Invest in Skills Lessons from European Good Practices
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2021-12-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9264347488

Workers’ skills are an essential asset for firms to recover from the COVID-19 shock and succeed in the twin digital and green transitions. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) face special barriers to investing in human capital because of their size and more limited access to information and capital markets. This report identifies policies that are successful in promoting SMEs’ investment in the skills of employees, managers or entrepreneurs.