Effective Employer Engagement: Work-Based

Learning and More Supplementary Material

Paul Swaim, OECD
20 September 2016, Session 5

Paul Swaim
Senior Economist, OECD Directorate for
Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
Effective Employer Engagement: Work-Based
Learning and More Supplementary Materials
[Session 5: Effective Models of Employer
Engagement]

Supplementary material:
The following four slides present some of the
empirical evidence from OECD research that was
drawn upon in preparing the presentation by Paul
Swaim in Session 5

Learning cannot stop at graduation

Share of displaced workers re-employed in a different industry

0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0

2009-2010

Jobs at high risk of automation

50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

USA NZL JPN FRA RUS CAN AUS KOR SWE GBR DEU PRT DNK FIN
Self-defined
displacement
Firm-identified
displacement
Self-defined
displacement
Firm-defined
displacement

Jobs at risk of significant change

KOR
EST
FIN
BEL
JPN
FRA
SWE
IRL
CAN
DNK
NOR
ESP
USA
Average
GBR
NLD
POL
AUT
DEU
ITA
CZE
SVK

2000-2008

Jobs with high and medium potential for automation (%)

Workers mismatched by skills, qualifications or filed of study (%)

Literacy mismatch

Qualification mismatch

Field-of-study mismatch

60
50
40
30
20
10
0
CAN

FRA

AUS

KOR

USA

JPN

UK

TUR

DEU

ITA

RUS

Jakarta

ESP

Source: Recent issues of the OECD Employment Outlook.

Work organisation plays a key role in access to WBL

Participation in formal or informal training, 2012
Percent of working adults (excludes 16-24 year olds in initial cycle of studies)
Firm size

Working hours

80
70

80

60
50

60

40
30

40

20

20

10
0

10

70
50
30

1-10
10-50
51-250
251-1000
1000+
employees employees employees employees employees

Full-time

Part-time

Source: Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), 2012.

Occupation, industry and work organisation play crucial roles in skills use
Percentage of variance in skills use
accounted for by different factors
Skill proficiency

50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

HRM

Occupation

Cross-country average frequency of the use

of writing and problem solving skills at work

Industry

1-10 employees
51-250 employees
1000+ employees

11-50 employees
251-1000 employees

Writing at work

Problem solving

2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5

Use of numeracy Use of reading at

at work
work

Use of writing at
work

Percentage of jobs with high HPWP in work organisation

40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

Japan

OECD

United States

Finland

Source: Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), 2012 and OECD Employment Outlook 2016, Chapter 2.

For further information:

Contact: mailto:paul.swaim@oecd.org
Survey of Adult Skills: www.oecd.org/site/piaac
OECD work on skills: skills.oecd.org

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OECD work on employment: www.oecd.org/employment

OECD Skills and Work: http://www.oecd.org/employment/emp/skills-and-work.htm
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