Theme : labour_markets
- What's in a word? Every so often you see a new word and you feel duty-bound to post it on the blog. So here it is: Flexicurity. You won’t find it in the dictionary. Oh no. But apparently you will find it in Scandanavia. from : duncanoleary 28th November 2006
- 2002 Cabinet Office Workforce Development report (pdf) Notes that a company's decision to adopt a low value-added business model may be self-reinforcing: 'Firms with low cost/low added value market strategies have little reason to value development. Organisations that resist changing their working practices find making improvements harder and harder as the gap between what they do and best practice widens.' Identifies: 'the crucial relationship between business support and WfD.' from : duncanoleary 21st August 2006
- ESRC Future of Work Programme: Skills and Innovation Robert Taylor argues that skills alone aren't enough: regulation is required to move to a high skills/wage economy. Suggests a higher minimum wage, more empowered unions, tax incentives and and the creative use of public-sector purchasing. Argues that there are many people overqualified/underused in their jobs, who consequently are are unsatisfied with work and feel no affinity/loyalty to their employers. from : duncanoleary 17th August 2006
- Sufficing - or not There are lots of different ways to make money in the same market – high value added and low value added products for example. The government in the wants the UK to move towards becoming a high value added economy – high skilled people employed, high wages paid. Everyone wins, don't they? from : duncanoleary 14th August 2006
- Futureskills Scotland: International comparative studt Really interesting. Finds that: "Scotland's labour quality stands favourable comparison with the world's best performing economies. In contrast, the quality of demand is not sufficient to employ the available labour. In the first instance, therefore, the quality of human capital is not a leading cause of Scotland's relatively low ranking in the economic performance league tables." i.e. shape of the labour market, not shortage of human capital the problem. from : duncanoleary 2nd August 2006
- The Returns to Apprenticeship Training (pdf) Finds that: - apprenticeships pay - qualifications (especially to level 3) make a positive difference in pay - NVQ has more added value when combined with an apprenticeshop from : duncanoleary 20th July 2006
- Ewart Keep article: State control of the English education and training systemplaying... Only an abstract here, but the article is worth a read. Argues that government is caught in a 'cycle of intervention', in which intervention (e.g. precription over funding and qualifications) leads to market failure...leading to more intervention and funding being ploughed in. Suggests that independent voices (trade unions and business) should be given a stronger role in policy formation, acting as strong partners. from : duncanoleary 20th July 2006
- Association of Colleges criticism of employers "The total investment in training undertaken off employer premises is a miserly £205 per employee per year, a national total of £2.9bn - only a faction of what the taxpayer spends on skills development. And most of that spend is to meet statutory requirements, for example on health and safety." from : duncanoleary 18th July 2006
- Mick Fletcher: The lesson is clear - people will invest in their future "Colleges moving courses outside LSC funding altogether are seeing the benefits of not having to worry about whether they are within the national qualifications framework or someone's idea of regional priorities. The approach might have the gratifying side-effect of allowing them to tell the LSC that their provision really is demand-led - providing what the customer actually wants, and will pay for - because it responds to paying customers rather than a dodgy dossier of labour market analysis" from : duncanoleary 18th July 2006
- Geoff Mason report on relationship between high skills and high value added product strategies (pdf) Finds that there is a link between: (1) high skills and high value added product strategies, and (2) exposure to competition and high value added product strategies. Suggests that this means employers in some sectors will be resistent to moving up the value chain. from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
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