“…However, while participation rates among older and unskilled workers remain higher than in many other OECD countries, there exist large gaps in participation rates between old and young workers, and between the low-and highly skilled. Furthermore, employees in occupations characterised by declining employment, who are likely to have been exposed to technological change, participate only modestly in adult education, especially if they are older or less-skilled (Asplund, Kauhanen and Vanhala, 2019 [42]).…”