The transfer of skills and experience by expatriate businesses and workers could strengthen the capacity of the domestic workforce.

Every commentator today highlights India s poor infrastructure, excessive regulation, small manufacturing sector, and a workforce that lacks adequate education and skills.

Alternatively, the firm can invest in skills training and build a more productive workforce with greater loyalty and hence lower turnover costs.

The workforce

In other words, half of all students in their final year of compulsory education, before entering the workforce, lack the minimum skills required by employers.

Source Workforce 1999, ESA, 2992, p 73 Workforce 2002, ESA, p 97.

As they enter the workforce, their language skills improve, their household income soars, and their children see firsthand a woman in a respected, economically valued role.

But if this happens more rapidly than workers can acquire advanced skills, the result can be a dangerous imbalance between an economy s productive structure and its workforce.

Women Participation in the Workforce

Promotion and development of a sustainable workforce

The child workforce, Syrian Women's League, 2004

4. Improving the quality of the workforce

And so there won't be any workforce.

That's the entire annual workforce of France.

They've got incredible people skills, negotiating skills.

He'd close down 30 percent of the workforce.

Women represent 46 of the public service workforce.

Source Statistics Netherlands (survey of the workforce) 2001

Work on your own skills. Your own skills!

He welcomed the support that had been expressed for UNIDO activities in the areas of information technology, improving of standards of production and workforce skills and assistance in the field of environment and sustainable development.

These programs can promote more and better jobs by, you build it, you invest in high quality preschool, it develops the skills of your local workforce if enough of them stick around, and, in turn, that higher quality local workforce will be a key driver of creating jobs and creating higher earnings per capita in the local community.

And it turns out the skills of happiness, the skills of the pleasant life, the skills of engagement, the skills of meaning, are different from the skills of relieving misery.

When people who in other circumstances could be happy, healthy, and productive members of the workforce lack the skills, confidence, social networks, and experience needed to find work worth paying for, we obviously have a problem.

Much discrimination occurs in the Saudi workforce as well.

Figure 2 Impact of restructuring on UNCDF workforce composition

Women do not negotiate for themselves in the workforce.

The first is women working, moving into the workforce.

To see what's going to happen, you can't just look at the workforce that is now, you have to look at our future workforce.

In other words, half of all students in their final year of compulsory education, before entering the workforce, lack the minimum skills required by employers. For many graduates, these gaps will never be bridged in later life.

According to one view, Eastern Europe was uniquely positioned to benefit from multinational companies its workforce was well educated, especially in engineering and sciences, and was thus able to avoid the classic low skills, low wage trap.

Life skills.

Language skills

Skills required

negotiation skills

(ii) capacity building performance management, training skills, and coaching skills

The potential gains from a larger female workforce are striking.

Statistical data on participation of indigenous women in the workforce

And of course all of this requires a broader workforce.

An utilisation analysis a determination of whether the number of target group members in the employer's workforce is reasonable given their availability in the relevant workforce.

Secondly you need skills, the mundane skills of the construction sector.

The Skills Deficit

Professional skills Economist

Language skills English

Proven drafting skills

advanced driving skills