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Birgit Zeyer-Gliozzo – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
The automation of job tasks due to technological change increases the pressure on workers whose jobs consist largely of such activities. In this context, politics and science attach great importance to further training, although the benefits for affected workers have hardly been investigated. Drawing on human capital theory and the task-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Automation, Job Security, Skill Obsolescence
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De Vos, M. E.; Baartman, L. K. J.; Van Der Vleuten, C. P. M.; De Bruijn, E. – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
Vocational education aims at preparing students for their future as professionals; thus, students are often required to undergo a form of on-the-job learning. Assessment of professional performance during on-the-job learning is not based on single observations, but on prolonged participation at the workplace culminating in judgement by a workplace…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, On the Job Training, Vocational Education, Personnel Evaluation
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Comyn, Paul – Journal of Education and Work, 2013
This paper reports on recent research into enterprise skill profiles and workplace training practices in the Bangladesh manufacturing industry. The article presents survey and interview data for 37 enterprises across eight manufacturing sectors collected during a study for the International Labour Organisation. The research analysed enterprise and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Manufacturing Industry, Job Skills, Skill Development