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Skills for Competitiveness: Country Report for United Kingdom
OECD on
May 17th 2012
Anne E. Green
To be successful in today’s knowledge economy, communities need to boost not only the skills of local people but also the utilisation and deployment of these skills by employers. By ensuring that skills are utilised effectively, local economies can become more competitive and host better quality and better paid jobs, while simultaneously improving living standards and stimulating innovation. The OECD LEED Skills for Competitiveness project has reviewed the tools and governance mechanisms which policy makers are putting in place to tackle this policy area in three LEED member countries, Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy, with information on a wider set of policies and measurement tools being collected through an international literature review. This country report for the United Kingdom sets out data findings on the supply and demand for skills at sub-regional level (OECD territorial level 3) before exploring local policy responses in Blackpool, Manchester and Rhyl. The report concludes with potential ...
Topics in this document
Labour economics
Economy
Economics
Work Programme
Borough of Halton
Welfare
Lancashire
Governance
Wales
Vocational education
Scotland
United Kingdom
Demand
Regions of England
Shortage
Competition (economics)
Economic growth
Supply and demand
Productivity
Merseyside
Education
Unemployment
Economic equilibrium
Resource Description and Access
Market (economics)
Employment
Structural unemployment
Innovation
Gwynedd
Youth unemployment
Related SDGs
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