Skill Formation/  interdisciplinary and cross-national perspectives 
Solga,Heike [ed.] 
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 - Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press,  2008. 
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<br/><br/>Part I. Cross-National Diversity in Skill Formation Regimes: Origins, Changes, and Institutional Variation in Individuals' Labor-Market Placements: <br/>1. Institutions and collective actors in the provision of training: historical and cross-national comparisons Pepper D. Culpepper and Kathleen Thelen; <br/>2. When traditions change and virtues become obstacles: skill formation in Britain and Germany Steffen Hillmert; Part II. The Economics and Sociology of Skill Formation: Access, Investments, and Returns to Education: <br/>3. Why does the German apprenticeship system work? Christian Dustmann and Uta Schoenberg; <br/>4. What do we know about training at work? Philip J. O'Connell and Jean-Marie Jungblut; <br/>5. Qualifications and the returns to training across the life course Walter Mueller and Marita Jacob; <br/>6. Lack of training: the employment opportunities of low-skilled persons from a sociological and microeconomic perspective Heike Solga; Part III. Individuals' Acquisition of Skills and Competencies: Learning Environments and Measurements of Skills: <br/>7. Vocational and professional learning: skill formation between formal and situated learning Hans Gruber, Christian Harteis and Monika Rehrl; <br/>8. How to compare the success of VET systems in skill formation? Martin Baethge, Frank Achtenhagen and Lena Arends. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521867525 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.3124  / MAY/S