The German Skills Machine

Sustaining Comparative Advantage in a Global Economy

Pepper D. Culpepper, David Finegold (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

496 Seiten

1999
Berghahn Books, Incorporated (Verlag)
978-1-57181-144-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Pepper D. Culpepper is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Part I: Threats to the German System: Is It Affordable? Is it Competitive?

Part II: Labor Market Outcomes of the German Training System

Part III: Comparative Perspectives on In-firm Training

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.11.1999
Reihe/Serie	Policies and Institutions: Germany, Europe, and Transatlantic Relations
Zusatzinfo	25 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Herndon
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-57181-144-3 / 1571811443
ISBN-13	978-1-57181-144-8 / 9781571811448
Zustand	Neuware