Chancellor Jeremy Hunt pledged that measures in the budget would help break down barriers that stop people working. One issue is how to ensure we have the skills the economy needs. Nye Cominetti, Rui Costa, Andrew Eyles, Kathleen Henehan and Sandra McNally analyse how the skills needed in the labour market have changed over the past decades and how well placed our system of training and particularly on-the-job training is to help us adapt to these changes.

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16 March 2023

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LSE Business Review

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2023/03/16/train-in-vain-skills-tasks-and-training-in-the-uk-labour-market/

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