Boosting skills for all in the Netherlands

"Strong and adequate skills are essential to support workers' productivity and to ensure robust employment outcomes. Developing workers' skills would also increase their personal satisfaction and wages, contributing in making growth more inclusive. The Netherlands performs well in ter...

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Published in:OECD Economic Department Working Papers 2016, Vol.1306 (1306), p.0_1
Main Authors: Kierzenkowski, Rafal, Paciorek, Aleksandra, Fulop, Gabor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
active labour market policies
Aktivierung
Anreizsystem
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag
Beruf
Berufsausbildung
Berufschance
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Education
Einkommen
Einwanderer
Employers
Employment
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Erwerbsbeteiligung
Erwerbsquote
Fertigkeit
Foreign students
Frau
Führungskraft
Higher education
Hoch Qualifizierter
Immigrants
Informatik
Labor force
Labor market
labour markets
Lehrer
Lesen
Literacy
Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften
Niederlande
Noncitizens
Occupations
PISA-Studie
Problemlösen
Productivity
Qualifications
Qualifikation
Qualifikationsanforderung
Qualifikationserwerb
Qualifizierung
Skills
Technik
Trends
Vollzeitarbeit
Weiterbildung
Workers
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Summary:"Strong and adequate skills are essential to support workers' productivity and to ensure robust employment outcomes. Developing workers' skills would also increase their personal satisfaction and wages, contributing in making growth more inclusive. The Netherlands performs well in terms of competences of a large part of the population. Moreover, the country has been successful in adjusting the required level of skills over time. The education system plays a key role in developing skills and achieves good results, but there is room to make vocational education and lifelong learning less job-specific to better adapt to new economic trends. There is scope to use more effectively existing skills at work of youth entering the labour market and entrepreneurs, and to reduce labour market mismatches. Another challenge is to help some people to acquire skills by facilitating their labour market integration - in particular first- and second-generation immigrants, long-term unemployed, and people with low educational attainment and health problems -, which requires stronger targeted active labour market policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
ISSN:1815-1973
1815-1973
DOI:10.1787/5jlwjg6j6lr1-en