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Skills and lifelong learning: low skills traps

A review of low skills equilibria, potential solutions and suggested policy directions.

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Skills and lifelong learning: low skills traps

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This essay explores:

  • factors contributing to low skills equilibria
  • solutions relating to the supply and demand of skills
  • other solutions beyond skills policy

It was commissioned as part of the Foresight Future of skills and lifelong learning project.

Published 23 February 2017