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SUMMARY:Measuring Skills in Europe - Dr Zilvinas Martinaitis\, Post-doctor
 al fellow\, Department of Educational Systems\, Kaunas University of Techn
 ology\, Lithuania
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DTEND:20130221T180000Z
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CONTACT:Laura Carnicero
DESCRIPTION:‘Skills‘ is a central concept in a number of academic and 
 policy debates.  Yet there is a lack of adequate instruments for theoretic
 ally grounded empirical measurements of level and specificity of skills. T
 he dominant approaches that use qualifications as a proxy of skills have b
 een criticised from numerous perspectives (e.g. Borghans et al. 2001). Thi
 s paper develops a methodology for measuring skills within performance dom
 ains\, i.e. by considering what individuals claim to be doing at work. The
  level of skills is measured on three dimensions: level of uncertainty (co
 mplexity of procedures for acquiring and working with information)\, auton
 omy (capacity to redefine or change the procedures) and continuous skills 
 building. Analysis of specificity of skills focuses on transferability of 
 skills (difficulty of switching employer as viewed by employee) and specif
 icity of work (difficulty of replacing employees as viewed by employers). 
 Empirical results includes data on more than 20 European countries. 
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DM
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