'You value what you pay for': enhancing employers' contributions to skill formation and use: a discussion paper for the Dusseldorp Skills Forum
This paper examines the issue of employers' contribution to the funding of education and training in Australia. The experience of the Training Guarantee Levy highlights that employers value what they pay for, i.e. where employers invest heavily in the skills of their workers they have strong incentives to ensure the productive deployment of those skilled employees. The encouragement of this high investment/high skill/high productivity cycle is the central policy imperative currently facing policy makers in Australia. Research has revealed that employers' contribution to training and education ... Show more
Authors: Hall, Richard; Buchanan, John; Considine, Gillian
Published: Sydney, New South Wales, Dusseldorp Skills Forum, 2002
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 41 p.
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