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    • Efectos no deseados de la formación para el trabajo en la educación media colombiana 

      Milena Díaz-Ríosa, Claudia; Celis-Giraldo, Jorge Enrique (Universidad de La Sabana. Facultad de Educación, 2010)
      La educación media estatal colombiana está pasando del nocivo extremo de reducirse a ser un puente para la educación universitaria, a otro igualmente negativo: el de formar en oficios de baja calificación o en competencias ...
    • Giving Peru a Productivity Boost : Towards a System of Continuous Education and Training 

      Lavado Padilla, Pablo; Rigolini, Jamele; Yamada, Gustavo (Universidad del Pacífico, 2015-12)
      In spite of impressive rates of economic growth, the quality of the labor force’s human capital is considered a major challenge for sustaining medium term economic growth in Peru. This note reviews the skills of the Peruvian ...
    • How Technology Changes Demands for Human Skills 

      Levy, Frank (OECD, 2010-03)
      This paper places the competencies to be measured by the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in the context of the technological developments which are reshaping the nature of ...
    • Workforce Skills and Innovation : An Overview of Major Themes in the Literature 

      Toner, Phillip (OECD, 2011-01)
      This paper provides an account of the main approaches, debates and evidence in the literature on the role of workforce skills in the innovation process in developed economies. It draws on multiple sources including the ...