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The German Skills Machine : Sustaining Comparative Advantage in a Global Economy / ed. by David Finegold, Pepper D. Culpepper.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Policies and Institutions: Germany, Europe, and Transatlantic Relations ; 3Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [1999]Copyright date: 1999Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781789203806
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  • 331.25920943
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Still a Model for the Industrialized Countries? -- Part I THREATS TO THE GERMAN SYSTEM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- Chapter 1: The German Apprenticeship System under Strain -- Chapter 2: Craft Production in Crisis: Industrial Restructuring in Germany during the 1990s -- Chapter 3: The German Skill-Creation System and Team-Based Production: Competitive Asset or Liability? -- Part II DISTRIBUTIVE OUTCOMES OF THE GERMAN TRAINING SYSTEM -- Chapter 4: Vocational Training and Job Mobility in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 5: Gender and Skills: Distributive Ramifications of the German Skill System -- Chapter 6: Continuing Occupational Training in an Aging German Economy -- PART III INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTS WITH IN-FIRM TRAINING -- Chapter 7: Individual Choice, Collective Action, and the Problem of Training Reform: Insights from France and Eastern Germany -- Chapter 8: Sectoral Training Initiatives in the US: Building Blocks of a New Workforce Preparation System? -- Chapter 9: Building a Governance Structure for Training? Employers, Government and the TEC Experiment in Britain -- Conclusion: The Future of the German Skill-Creation System: Conclusions and Policy Options -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In recent years the German economy has grown sluggishly and created few new jobs. These developments have led observers to question the future viability of a model that in the past seemed able to combine economic growth, competitiveness in export markets, and low social inequality. This volume brings together empirical and comparative research from across the social sciences to examine whether or not Germany's system of skill provision is still capable of meeting the economic and social challenges now facing all the advanced capitalist economies. At issue is the question of whether or not the celebrated German training system, an essential element of the high-skill, high-wage equilibrium, can continue to provide the skills necessary for German companies to hold their economic niche in a world characterized by increasing trade and financial interdependence. Combining an examination of the competitiveness of the German training system with an analysis of the robustness of the political institutions that support it, this volume seeks to understand the extent to which the German system for imparting craft skills can adjust to changes in the organization of production in the advanced industrial states.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Still a Model for the Industrialized Countries? -- Part I THREATS TO THE GERMAN SYSTEM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- Chapter 1: The German Apprenticeship System under Strain -- Chapter 2: Craft Production in Crisis: Industrial Restructuring in Germany during the 1990s -- Chapter 3: The German Skill-Creation System and Team-Based Production: Competitive Asset or Liability? -- Part II DISTRIBUTIVE OUTCOMES OF THE GERMAN TRAINING SYSTEM -- Chapter 4: Vocational Training and Job Mobility in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 5: Gender and Skills: Distributive Ramifications of the German Skill System -- Chapter 6: Continuing Occupational Training in an Aging German Economy -- PART III INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTS WITH IN-FIRM TRAINING -- Chapter 7: Individual Choice, Collective Action, and the Problem of Training Reform: Insights from France and Eastern Germany -- Chapter 8: Sectoral Training Initiatives in the US: Building Blocks of a New Workforce Preparation System? -- Chapter 9: Building a Governance Structure for Training? Employers, Government and the TEC Experiment in Britain -- Conclusion: The Future of the German Skill-Creation System: Conclusions and Policy Options -- Bibliography -- Index

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In recent years the German economy has grown sluggishly and created few new jobs. These developments have led observers to question the future viability of a model that in the past seemed able to combine economic growth, competitiveness in export markets, and low social inequality. This volume brings together empirical and comparative research from across the social sciences to examine whether or not Germany's system of skill provision is still capable of meeting the economic and social challenges now facing all the advanced capitalist economies. At issue is the question of whether or not the celebrated German training system, an essential element of the high-skill, high-wage equilibrium, can continue to provide the skills necessary for German companies to hold their economic niche in a world characterized by increasing trade and financial interdependence. Combining an examination of the competitiveness of the German training system with an analysis of the robustness of the political institutions that support it, this volume seeks to understand the extent to which the German system for imparting craft skills can adjust to changes in the organization of production in the advanced industrial states.

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