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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

PREPARING FOR THE UPSWING: TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION DURING THE CRISIS [2 March 2011]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/studies/tn1010023s/index.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/studies/tn1010023s/tn1010023s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/ewco/tn1010023s/tn1010023s.pdf

[full-text, 48 pages]

Abstract:

The economic crisis has had a profound impact on enterprises throughout Europe. This report examines training initiatives provided or supported by enterprises (external and internal measures) during the recession for their employees (it does not cover training initiatives for the unemployed). The report begins by highlighting the dramatic increase in unemployment rates in EU Member States and Norway between the second quarter of 2008 and the corresponding period in 2010, before discussing the effectiveness of training activities as a tool for dealing with the effects of the recession on enterprises and the available evidence on the extent of training in the workplace during the recession. It describes a range of crisis-related policy measures for supporting training activities and presents successful examples of training measures implemented by enterprises in various Member States. The report concludes by examining the positions and views of social partners on the importance of training during the recession.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Europe in recession: employment and unemployment

Training as an effective tool for tackling the recession’s effects

Evidence of workplace training during the recession

Crisis-related policy measures for supporting training activities

Successful examples of training measures implemented by enterprises

Positions and views of social partners on the importance of training during

the recession

Conclusions

Bibliography

Annex: List of selected training related measures

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