Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18754 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1390
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early interventions have proven to be very effective in compensating for the effect of neglect. Improvements in traditional measures of school quality, tuition subsidies, company-sponsored and public job training are unlikely to be as effective. We review the evidence and present several policy recommendations.
JEL: 
I21
J31
I28
I22
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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