Most industrialised countries in conditions of intensive, global economic competition recognise the central importance of workforces with adequate levels of education and skills. This article compares the educational and training outcomes during the critical school‐to‐work transition period in two countries with very different institutional arrangements–the USA and Germany.
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Throughout most industrialised countries we encounter growing concerns about skills mismatches and imminent skills shortages in the labour market and the adequacy of existing education and training systems in supplying the skills needed by firms and workers to meet the competitive challenges facing highly industrialised, high wage countries in the decades ahead. These concerns at first sight seem to be at odds with the fact that during the past three decades most industrialised countries have experienced an unprecedented expansion in educational attainments among their populations which has raised formal skill levels of the workforce far above what they were in the early 1960s.
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