Contents: Institutions and collective actors in the provision of training : historical and cross-national comparisons / Pepper D. Culpepper and Kathleen Thelen -- When traditions change and virtues become obstacles : skill formation in Britain and Germany / Steffen Hillmert -- Why does the German apprenticeship system work? / Christian Dustmann and Uta Schoenberg -- What do we know about training at work? / Philip J. O'Connell and Jean-Marie Jungblut -- Qualifications and the returns to training across the life course / Walter Mueller and Marita Jacob -- Lack of training : employment opportunities for low-skilled persons from a sociological and microeconomic perspective / Heike Solga -- Vocational and professional learning : skill formation between formal and situated learning / Hans Gruber, Christian Harteis and Monika Rehrl -- How to compare the performance of VET systems in skill formation / Martin Baethge, Frank Achtenhagen and Lena Arends

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Context of Skill formation : interdisciplinary and cross-national perspectives, edited by Karl Ulrich Mayer, Heike Solga, (electronic resource)