Collective Skill Formation in the Knowledge Economy

Description

The book argues that collective skill formation systems remain attractive for firms and governments. However, continuous and profound adjustments will be needed if they are to fulfil their objectives in terms of equity and efficiency.

• Covers the main socio-economic trends that are impacting in the functioning of collective skill formation systems
• Allows readers to get deep knowledge into key aspects of the function of collective skill formation systems
• Contains detailed empirical studies of instances of transformation of skill formation policy
• Provides an assessment of the viability of collective skill formation systems in the knowledge economy

About the Author(s)

Edited by Giuliano Bonoli, Professor of social policy, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, and Patrick Emmenegger, Professor of comparative political economy and public policy, School of Economics and Political Science, University of St Gallen

Giuliano Bonoli is Professor of social policy at the Swiss graduate school for public administration at the University of Lausanne. He received his PhD at the University of Kent at Canterbury for a study on pension reform in Europe. He has been involved in several national and international research projects on various aspects of social policy. His work has focused on pension reform, labour markets and family polices. He has published some thirty articles in journals such as Politics & Society, Journal of European Public Policy, European Sociological Review, Comparative Politics, Comparative political studies. With Oxford University Press, he has published The Politics of the New Welfare State (2012, with David Natali) and The Origins of Active Social Policy: Active Labour Market Policy and Childcare in a Comparative Perspective (2013).

Patrick Emmenegger is Professor of comparative political economy and public policy at the University of St Gallen's School of Economics and Political Science. He is interested in the reform of coordinated models of capitalism, business-government relations, processes of state-building and democratization as well as theories of institutional stability and change. He has published some sixty articles in academic journals such as Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Politics, New Political Economy, Regulation & Governance, and Socio-Economic Review. With Oxford University Press, he has published The Age of Dualization: The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Societies (2012, with Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser) and The Power to Dismiss: Trade Unions and the Regulation of Job Security in Western Europe (2014).

Table of Contents

1:Collective Skill Formation in a Knowledge Economy: Challenges and Dilemmas, Giuliano Bonoli; Patrick Emmenegger
2:Occupations and Collective Skill Formation in the Knowledge Economy: Exploring Differential Employment Integration for the German Case, Christian Ebner; Sandra Hirtz; Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt
3:Reshaping the Role of Professional Associations and the Federal State in Swiss VET: Ambiguous Reactions to the Knowledge Economy, Regula Bürgi; Philipp Eigenmann; Philipp Gonon
4:Still Egalitarian? How the Knowledge Economy is Changing Vocational Education and Training in Denmark and Sweden, Martin B. Carstensen; Christian Lyhne Ibsen
5:Efficiency, Social Inclusion, and Dutch Pathway towards Vocational Education and Training Reform, Dennie Oude Nijhuis
6:The Politics of Social Inclusion in Collective Skill Formation Systems: Actors, Coalitions, and Policies, Leonard Geyer; Niccolo Durazzi
7:Employer Visibility and Sectors as Predictors of Egalitarian Values in VET: A Mixed-Method Study of Recruiters' Views on Apprentice Candidates, Anna Wilson
8:Pride and Prejudice? The Influence of Occupational Prestige on an Integration Programme for Refugees in Switzerland, Annatina Aerne
9:The Credibility of Vocational Qualifications as a Barrier to Increasing the Flexibility of Collective Skill Formation Systems: An Analysis of the Slow Expansion of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in Switzerland, Markus Maurer
10:Employer Influence in Vocational Education and Training: Germany and Sweden Compared, Marius R. Busemeyer; Kathleen Thelen
11:Employers' Cooperation in the Knowledge Economy: Continuing Vocational Training in Switzerland, Gina Di Maio; Christine Trampusch
12:Enhancing Permeability through Cooperation: The Case of Vocational and Academic Worlds of Learning in the Knowledge Economy, Nadine Bernhard; Lukas Graf
13:Declining Collectivism at the Higher and Lower End: The Increasing Role of the Austrian State in Times of Technological Change, Lina Seitzl; Daniel Franz Unterweger
14:How Collective Skill Formation Systems Adapt to a Knowledge Economy, Patrick Emmenegger; Giuliano Bonoli