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Getting Strategic About Skills

NOTE: This is the third in our recent “let’s share the findings from all those OECD reports with each other (and the world)” series. Again, the content is not likely scintillating, but it’s important to us, and we’re happy to let you in on it. The OECD Designing Local Skills Strategies Report (2009) focuses largely [...]
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Labor Market Policy: It’s About More Than Skills

NOTE: This is a continuation of the series we warned you about a few days ago. We are summarizing several large reports for each other (members of the Community Team at CSW), but we’re doing it here so you can benefit too – you know, if you are interested (since you found your way here [...]
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Big Changes at Work

Last week we were drafting a set of policy recommendations for a project. We’d drafted an introduction that named demographics, technology, and the competitive landscape as among the most significant domains of change in the workplace during the past decade. At that point I realized how many times I’d seen this collection of words and [...]
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What We Know About Regional Economic Growth, Innovation, and Recovery

NOTE: We’ll be be posting findings from a few papers we’re reviewing with the intent of sharing with colleagues. We’re doing this here so that you might benefit from them too, but wanted to warn you before you read too far. We just reviewed Regions Matter (OECD, November 2009). It’s chalk full of bits and [...]
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New Approaches for Young Wish-They-Were-Workers

Really high unemployment among youth. One of the most alarming bits of bad news in a sea of unwelcome statistics about unemployment, is just how bad it is for the young American worker these days. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that the proportion of young people employed in July was 51.4 percent, “the [...]
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