eprintid: 2571
rev_number: 10
eprint_status: archive
userid: 150
dir: disk0/00/00/25/71
datestamp: 2007-02-12 12:00:00
lastmod: 2015-07-18 22:40:11
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type: working_paper
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creators_name: Heckmann, J.
creators_name: Masterov, D.
title: Skill policies for Scotland
ispublished: pub
subjects: 12050
keywords: JEL classification: J31, I21, I22, I28
abstract: 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.
date: 2004-06
date_type: published
publisher: Department of Economics, University College London
official_url: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/economics/research/papers/working-papers-2004
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Papers in Economics
number: 04-07
place_of_pub: London, UK
issn: 1350-6722
citation:        Heckmann, J.;    Masterov, D.;      (2004)    Skill policies for Scotland.                    (Discussion Papers in Economics  04-07). Department of Economics, University College London: London, UK.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2571/1/2571.pdf