OECD Skills Outlook 2023
Skills for a Resilient Green and Digital Transition
Skills are vital for building resilient economies and societies. By helping individuals develop a diverse range of skills and empowering them to apply these skills effectively, skills policies play a crucial role in responding to emerging threats, such as environmental degradation and harmful applications of technologies used to collect, generate, and exchange information. This edition of the Skills Outlook highlights the importance of supporting individuals in acquiring a wide range of skills, at varying levels of proficiency, to promote economic and social resilience. Additionally, the report acknowledges the role of attitudes and dispositions in enabling skills development and effective skills use. It also emphasises the need for policy makers to monitor the costs associated with policies aimed at promoting the green and digital transition, and how the transition affects inequalities. Training opportunities that respond to emerging labour market needs and efforts to facilitate their uptake can promote a just and inclusive green and digital transition. In turn, education systems that equip young people not only with skills but attitudes to manage change can ensure that the green and digital transition is sustainable in the longer term.
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The OECD averages include only OECD countries. Similarly, EU averages include only EU member states and are calculated as unweighted averages. OECD and EU averages are calculated for member countries with available data, and the number of countries which are part of the averages can differ. OECD and EU averages are calculated based on the OECD and EU member countries presented in the respective figure or table, with all data accessible via the OECD’s StatLinks service.
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