High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation

By P. Brown, A. Green, H. Lauder. 2001

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Asset Specificity, Institutional Complementarities and the Variety of Skill Regimes in Coordinated Market Economies (2009, background): “The German system of vocational education and training has long been regarded as a successful model for other countries to follow (Finegold and Soskice, 1988; Soskice, 1994; Crouch et al., 1999; Culpepper, 1999; Green, 2001).”
Explaining change in EU education policy (2008, background): “Since tertiary education has become a crucial factor for global competitiveness (European Commission 2004a: 10) and a central feature of the novel ‘knowledge-driven capitalism’ (Brown et al. 2001), the EU was compelled to act.”
Skills and training for the hospitality sector: a review of issues (2002, background): “Public policy in many countries focuses on the development of what are seen as a high skill employment and business environment (Brown et al, 2001).”
Employability in a Knowledge-driven Economy (2002, background): “They prefer to hire workers on a 'plug-in-and-play' (Lauder, 2001) basis, rather than having to invest in expensive and intensive training before new recruits can 'add value'.”
Re-thinking trust in a performative culture: the case of education (2003, background): “Similarly, Brown and Lauder (2001) would consider current economic conditions as both enabling of and calling for the development of an expansive professionalism.”
Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market? The case of business and management graduates (2011, background): “The policy emphasis on the supply-side of the labour market to stimulate rapid movement towards a knowledge economy (as part of a neo-liberal approach to skill formation; Brown et al. 2001) is called into question if employers, at least in”
Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A distributional approach (2003, background): “This may make sense in terms of economic competitiveness, although many have doubts even about this (Brown et al., 2001; Michalski et al., 1997).”
The Opportunity Trap: Education and Employment in a Global Economy (2003, background): “This has led to significant variations in the way competition rules are drawn up and how they relate to labour market opportunities in different countries (Esping-Andersen, 1999; Brown et al, 2001).”
The concept of transition system (2008, background): “The concept of transition system is cognate with other system concepts influenced by the societal approach, such as production system, skill acquisition system and skill diffusion system (eg Ashton et al., 2000; Brown et al., 2001).”