Skill policies for Scotland

Arbeitspapier

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early interventions have proven to be very effective in compensating for the effect of neglect. Improvements in traditional measures of school quality, tuition subsidies, company-sponsored and public job training are unlikely to be as effective. We review the evidence and present several policy recommendations.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1390

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Education: Government Policy ; Educational Finance; Financial Aid
• Thema: Qualifikation ; Lernprozess ; Lebenszyklus ; Bildungsinvestition ; Familienpolitik ; Bildungspolitik ; Bildungsertrag ; Schottland ; Welt ; England ; Vereinigte Staaten

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Heckman, James Joseph ; Masterov, Dimitriy V.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2005

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18754
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ