{"product_id":"acquiring-skills-market-failures-their-symptoms-and-policy-responses-hardback-9780521472050","title":"Acquiring Skills; Market Failures, their Symptoms and Policy Responses (Hardback) 9780521472050","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAcquiring Skills\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMarket Failures, their Symptoms and Policy Responses\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1996 book examines the consequences, and policy implications of failure in training provision and skills acquisition in the industrial world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlison L. Booth (Edited by), Dennis J. Snower (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521472050, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 April 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e374 pages, 11 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.6 cm, 0.648 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"As a collection of essays, this volume is a rousing success: the essays are interesting, clever and thought provoking.\"    Industrial and Labor Relations Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTechnological change, unemployment and industrial restructuring have highlighted training and the acquisition of skills as a policy issue. There is widespread concern that employees are insufficiently skilled, and it is recognised that this deficiency can have serious economic consequences. The situation is likely to become particularly urgent, as the dramatic increase in the share of temporary and part-time employment in the OECD leads to a decline in the incentives to train. This 1996 book, from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, provides a systematic account of the causes, consequences, and policy implications of failure in training provision and skills acquisition in the industrial world. It explains why the market mechanism leads people to under-invest in skills and examines the empirical outcome of these problems using a portfolio of examples for European countries.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: does the free market produce enough skills? Alison L. Booth and Dennis J. Snower\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Market Failures: the Causes of Skills Gaps: 2. Transferable training and poaching externalities Margaret Stevens\u003cbr\u003e 3. Credit constraints, investment externalities and growth Daron Acemoglu\u003cbr\u003e 4. Education and matching externalities Kenneth Burdett and Eric Smith\u003cbr\u003e 5. Dynamic competition for market share and the failure of the market for skilled labour David Ulph\u003cbr\u003e 6. The low-skill, bad-job trap Dennis J. Snower\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Empirical Consequences of Skills Gaps: 7. Changes in the relative demand for skills Stephen Machin\u003cbr\u003e 8. Skill shortages, productivity growth and wage inflation Jonathan Haskel and Christopher Martin\u003cbr\u003e 9. Workforce skills, product quality and economic performance Geoff Mason, Bart Van Ark, and Karin Wagner\u003cbr\u003e 10. Workforce skills and export competitiveness Nicholas Oulton\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Government Failures and Policy Issues: 11. Market failure and government failure in skills investment David Finegold\u003cbr\u003e 12. Training implications of regulation compliance and business cycles Alan Felstead and Francis Green\u003cbr\u003e 13. On apprenticeship qualifications and labour mobility Alison L. Booth and Stephen Satchell\u003cbr\u003e 14. Evaluating the assumptions that underlie training policy Ewart Keep and Ken Mayhew\u003cbr\u003e 15. Conclusions: government policy to promote the acquisition of skills Dennis J. Snower and Alison L. Booth\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Labour economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Labour economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Labour%20economics%20%5BKCF%5D%22\"\u003eKCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007647240472,"sku":"9780521472050","price":88.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521472050i_d71ae6f8-cdb1-47c0-b448-c05a968b517b.jpg?v=1691382769","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/acquiring-skills-market-failures-their-symptoms-and-policy-responses-hardback-9780521472050","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}