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CATEGORIES:Kazakhstan Programme Research Seminar Series
SUMMARY:Measuring Skills in Europe - Dr Zilvinas Martinait
 is\, Post-doctoral fellow\, Department of Educatio
 nal Systems\, Kaunas University of Technology\, Li
 thuania
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130221T174500
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UID:TALK43028AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/43028
DESCRIPTION:‘Skills‘ is a central concept in a number of acade
 mic and policy debates.  Yet there is a lack of ad
 equate instruments for theoretically grounded empi
 rical measurements of level and specificity of ski
 lls. The dominant approaches that use qualificatio
 ns as a proxy of skills have been criticised from 
 numerous perspectives (e.g. Borghans et al. 2001).
  This paper develops a methodology for measuring s
 kills within performance domains\, i.e. by conside
 ring what individuals claim to be doing at work. T
 he level of skills is measured on three dimensions
 : level of uncertainty (complexity of procedures f
 or acquiring and working with information)\, auton
 omy (capacity to redefine or change the procedures
 ) and continuous skills building. Analysis of spec
 ificity of skills focuses on transferability of sk
 ills (difficulty of switching employer as viewed b
 y employee) and specificity of work (difficulty of
  replacing employees as viewed by employers). Empi
 rical results includes data on more than 20 Europe
 an countries. 
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge
 \, CB2 8PQ\, DMB\, Room 1S3
CONTACT:Laura Carnicero
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