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OECD Skills Outlook 2023

Skills for a Resilient Green and Digital Transition

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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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Overview

This chapter reflects on lessons from the COVID‑19 pandemic that can guide reforms in skills policies to strengthen resilience and promote the twin green and digital transition. These reforms should be seen in the context of ongoing environmental degradation and the complexity of information landscapes driven by rapid technological developments. The chapter first defines resilience and then stresses that promoting system-level resilience through effective skills policies requires empowering individuals with a wide range of skills at varying levels of proficiency. The chapter also stresses that attitudes and dispositions are key enablers of skills development and effective skills use. Finally, the chapter highlights the importance of embedding skills policies in the context of comprehensive policy efforts and of monitoring the economic and social consequences of policy actions.

English Also available in: French

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