The Approaches of Economists to the Relationship Between Training and Work

Much of the work of economists in Britain over the last twenty years on the relationship between education and work has concentrated on the problems of vocational training and the failings of the British system. The debate has been strongly influenced by the structure of the national system of vocational training, and especially by the decline of apprenticeship. For many decades, this had provided the main path to skilled jobs in industry and construction, and it was one of the few intermediate level skills that was recognised as transferable between firms.