Both skills and small firms have been increasingly prominent in policy agendas across the world in recent years. Skills are now seen as being crucial to economic prosperity, yet evidence consistently shows much lower levels of training, on average, in small firms than in larger businesses. Policy makers in various countries have sought to address this perceived problem and to stimulate skills development in small firms, but have attempted to do so in different ways and with varying degrees of success. It is this divergence in national skills policies, as well as its causes and implications for skill formation in small firms, that this paper seeks to illuminate. In doing so, it adopts an ‘institutional’ perspective that advances current unde...
New Zealand public policy aims to increase skill levels in the labour force, taking into account tha...
In a commentary on Education across Europe, the OECD, acknowledged human capital as a major factor d...
The concept of the Low Skills Equilibrium (LSE) denotes a mutually reinforcing set of mechanisms tha...
Both skills and small firms have been increasingly prominent in policy agendas across the world in r...
For the last three decades there has been a tendency in most of the older industrial countries to se...
For the last three decades there has been a tendency in most of the older industrial countries to se...
Objectives The paper reports on one part of a research project that aims to improve understanding of...
Recent research has established that small firms tend to develop and acquire the skills they need in...
Despite a series of national policy initiatives aimed at addressing skills shortages in a number of ...
The aim of this briefing paper is to provide an understanding of the factors that determine the leve...
Small business policy has become a major focus of industrial policy initiatives in the OECD countrie...
This paper starts from samples of economic literature hypothesizing and partly establishing a positi...
A growing body of literature is concerned with explaining cross-national performance of small busine...
Despite a series of national policy initiatives aimed at addressing skills shortages in a number of ...
Purpose: Criteria of skills and their schemata have evolved out of historical social practices. Inte...
New Zealand public policy aims to increase skill levels in the labour force, taking into account tha...
In a commentary on Education across Europe, the OECD, acknowledged human capital as a major factor d...
The concept of the Low Skills Equilibrium (LSE) denotes a mutually reinforcing set of mechanisms tha...
Both skills and small firms have been increasingly prominent in policy agendas across the world in r...
For the last three decades there has been a tendency in most of the older industrial countries to se...
For the last three decades there has been a tendency in most of the older industrial countries to se...
Objectives The paper reports on one part of a research project that aims to improve understanding of...
Recent research has established that small firms tend to develop and acquire the skills they need in...
Despite a series of national policy initiatives aimed at addressing skills shortages in a number of ...
The aim of this briefing paper is to provide an understanding of the factors that determine the leve...
Small business policy has become a major focus of industrial policy initiatives in the OECD countrie...
This paper starts from samples of economic literature hypothesizing and partly establishing a positi...
A growing body of literature is concerned with explaining cross-national performance of small busine...
Despite a series of national policy initiatives aimed at addressing skills shortages in a number of ...
Purpose: Criteria of skills and their schemata have evolved out of historical social practices. Inte...
New Zealand public policy aims to increase skill levels in the labour force, taking into account tha...
In a commentary on Education across Europe, the OECD, acknowledged human capital as a major factor d...
The concept of the Low Skills Equilibrium (LSE) denotes a mutually reinforcing set of mechanisms tha...