Skill Formation: Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives - Hardcover

Solga, Heike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521867525 ISBN 13: 9780521867528

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

There are marked changes in skill requirements in today's modern societies, and major questions about the processes of skill formation remain unresolved. What do we mean when we talk about skills, qualifications and competencies? Are market economies and firms systematically under-investing in skills? This book addresses these questions by first looking at what we mean when we talk about 'skills'. Secondly, it looks at the institutions where skills are acquired, before finally considering the provision of and access to training. It provides an up-to-date review of theories and research on skill formation in psychology, economics, political science and sociology, and addresses issues of skill learning and measurement, institutional and policy differences between countries, the issue of skill formation across a lifetime and disparities between socio-economic groups.

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About the Authors

Heike Solga is professor of sociology at the Institute for Sociology at the Georgia Augusta University Göttingen, Germany. She is a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Sociological Research Göttingen (SOFI), and from 2000-2005, she was head of the Independent Research Group named 'Lack of Training: Employment and Life Chances of the Less Educated' at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Karl Ulrich Mayer is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Yale University and Co-Director of the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE). He is co-editor of After the Fall of the Wall: Life Courses in the Transformation of East Germany and The Berlin Aging Study: From 70 to 100 (Cambridge University Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521867525
• ISBN 13: 9780521867528
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Mayer Karl Ulrich