Collective Skill Formation in the Knowledge Economy

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-286625-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Interest in collective skill formation systems has been high for a long time, but recent structural economic and societal developments have led commentators to question their viability. In particular, the shift towards a knowledge economy creates a number of challenges for these highly praised systems of vocational training. These challenges relate to the growing importance of knowledge intensive production in advanced economies and with the accelerated pace of change due to innovation and globalization. What is more, these issues are compounded by coinciding developments in growing inequality and the emergence of multicultural societies. Can collective skill formation systems adapt fast enough to the needs of the knowledge economy? Can they continue to be as successful as they have been in the past in integrating youth in the labour market? Will employers be willing to participate in the delivery of vocational training in this new context? In this book, a world class team of leading experts on collective skill formation systems provide a thorough discussion of these and other questions raised by the shift to a knowledge economy. The book argues that collective skill formation systems remain attractive for firms and governments. However, continuous and profound adjustments will be needed if they are to fulfil their objectives in terms of equity and efficiency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bonoli, Giuliano

Emmenegger, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Giuliano Bonoli; Patrick Emmenegger: Collective Skill Formation in a Knowledge Economy: Challenges and Dilemmas

- 2: Christian Ebner; Sandra Hirtz; Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt: Occupations and Collective Skill Formation in the Knowledge Economy: Exploring Differential Employment Integration for the German Case

- 3: Regula Bürgi; Philipp Eigenmann; Philipp Gonon: Reshaping the Role of Professional Associations and the Federal State in Swiss VET: Ambiguous Reactions to the Knowledge Economy

- 4: Martin B. Carstensen; Christian Lyhne Ibsen: Still Egalitarian? How the Knowledge Economy is Changing Vocational Education and Training in Denmark and Sweden

- 5: Dennie Oude Nijhuis: Efficiency, Social Inclusion, and Dutch Pathway towards Vocational Education and Training Reform

- 6: Leonard Geyer; Niccolo Durazzi: The Politics of Social Inclusion in Collective Skill Formation Systems: Actors, Coalitions, and Policies

- 7: Anna Wilson: Employer Visibility and Sectors as Predictors of Egalitarian Values in VET: A Mixed-Method Study of Recruiters' Views on Apprentice Candidates

- 8: Annatina Aerne: Pride and Prejudice? The Influence of Occupational Prestige on an Integration Programme for Refugees in Switzerland

- 9: Markus Maurer: The Credibility of Vocational Qualifications as a Barrier to Increasing the Flexibility of Collective Skill Formation Systems: An Analysis of the Slow Expansion of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in Switzerland

- 10: Marius R. Busemeyer; Kathleen Thelen: Employer Influence in Vocational Education and Training: Germany and Sweden Compared

- 11: Gina Di Maio; Christine Trampusch: Employers' Cooperation in the Knowledge Economy: Continuing Vocational Training in Switzerland

- 12: Nadine Bernhard; Lukas Graf: Enhancing Permeability through Cooperation: The Case of Vocational and Academic Worlds of Learning in the Knowledge Economy

- 13: Lina Seitzl; Daniel Franz Unterweger: Declining Collectivism at the Higher and Lower End: The Increasing Role of the Austrian State in Times of Technological Change

- 14: Patrick Emmenegger; Giuliano Bonoli: How Collective Skill Formation Systems Adapt to a Knowledge Economy

Über Autor(innen)

Giuliano Bonoli is Professor of social policy at the Swiss graduate school for public administration at the University of Lausanne. He received his PhD at the University of Kent at Canterbury for a study on pension reform in Europe. He has been involved in several national and international research projects on various aspects of social policy. His work has focused on pension reform, labour markets and family polices. He has published some thirty articles in journals such as Politics & Society, Journal of European Public Policy, European Sociological Review, Comparative Politics, Comparative political studies. With Oxford University Press, he has published The Politics of the New Welfare State (2012, with David Natali) and The Origins of Active Social Policy: Active Labour Market Policy and Childcare in a Comparative Perspective (2013).

Patrick Emmenegger is Professor of comparative political economy and public policy at the University of St Gallen's School of Economics and Political Science. He is interested in the reform of coordinated models of capitalism, business-government relations, processes of state-building and democratization as well as theories of institutional stability and change. He has published some sixty articles in academic journals such as Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Politics, New Political Economy, Regulation & Governance, and Socio-Economic Review. With Oxford University Press, he has published The Age of Dualization: The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Societies (2012, with Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser) and The Power to Dismiss: Trade Unions and the Regulation of Job Security in Western Europe (2014).