List of Contributors

David Ashton is Emeritus Professor at Leicester University and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. He has published extensively on skill formation, HRM, and workforce development. His latest book with Johnny Sung is Skills in Business: The Role of Business Strategy, Sectoral Skills Development and Skills Policy, Sage, 2014. He has provided consultancy services to government departments within the United Kingdom, South Africa, Singapore, the European Union, and international agencies such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and World Bank. Contact: [email protected].

Gerhard Bosch is Director of the Institute for Work, Skills and Training (Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation) and full Professor of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He has published a number of books and articles on wages, employment systems, working time, industrial relations, wages, and skills including, with Jean Charest, Vocational Training: International Perspectives (Routledge 2010). He has been expert advisor on employment and skills policy to the German government, the European Union, the ILO and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Contact: [email protected].

Phillip Brown is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. He worked in the auto industry in Oxford before training as a teacher. His academic career took him to Cambridge University and the University of Kent at Canterbury before joining Cardiff University in 1997. He has written, co-authored, and co-edited 16 books including The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs and Incomes with Hugh Lauder and David Ashton (Oxford University Press, 2011). Contact: [email protected].

Jane Bryson is Associate Professoxr in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She researches the range of factors (institutional, organizational, and individual) which influence human capability at work. Most recently she has examined the impact of employment law on workplace management practices.

John Buchanan is Professor in Working Life and currently Chair of Business Analytics and Principal Advisor (Research Impact) at the University of Sydney Business School. Up to 2014 he was Director of the Workplace Research Centre. His key domains of expertise are in the areas of wage determination, workforce development, health workforce, and the work-health nexus. His current role is principally concerned with deepening the capacity for high impact research and education in the field of data science. He is also helping build capacity for research and education activity of the Business School to assist in the transformation of health and wellbeing in Western Sydney. His most recent co-edited book is Inclusive Growth in Australia: Social Policy as Economic Investment (2013). Contact: [email protected]

Paul Dalziel PhD is Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He has more than 100 refereed publications on economic policy, including Wellbeing Economics (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2014). He has been involved in four OECD projects and was Science Leader for a national trans-disciplinary research programme on education and employment linkages (2007–2012). Contact: [email protected].

Stuart W. Elliott PhD is an analyst in the Directorate of Education and Skills at theOECD. For ten years he directed the Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council in the United States, leading numerous studies on educational tests and indicators, assessment of science and twenty-first-century skills, applications of information technology, and occupational preparation and certification. Contact: [email protected].

Alan Felstead is Research Professor at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. He has published numerous books and articles on skills, training, and employment. Recent books include Improving Working as Learning, co-authored with Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson, and Lorna Unwin (Routledge, 2009), and Unequal Work in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-edited with Duncan Gallie and Francis Green. Contact: [email protected].

David Finegold is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University and is the founding Chief Academic Officer for American Honors. He is a leading international expert on skill development systems and their relationship to the changing world of work and economic performance. Contact: [email protected].

Duncan Gallie is Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. His research has examined the changing nature of job quality both in Britain and Europe, the social consequences of unemployment, and attitudes to inequality. He recently published a comparative study of the effects of economic crisis on work and employment relations in Europe, titled Economic Crisis, Quality of Work and Social Integration (Oxford University Press, 2013). He has been Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy. Contact: [email protected].

Lynn Gambin PhD is an economist based at the University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research where she is leads a programme of research on methodological approaches to assessing the rates of return that accrue to individuals obtaining various qualifications, especially those related to vocational education and training (VET). She is also an expert in the evaluation of programmes designed to increase participation in VET and was an adviser to the House of Commons on apprenticeships. Contact: [email protected].

Mary Gatta PhD is Senior Scholar at Wider Opportunities for Women in Washington DC. She leads research on job quality for low-wage workers; workforce development training programmes; and non-traditional jobs for women. Mary’s expertise includes integrating a gender lens into policy analysis. She has published numerous books and articles including: All I Want Is A Job! Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System (Stanford University Press, 2014). Contact: [email protected].

Francis Green is Professor of Work and Education Economics at the LLAKES Centre, UCL Institute of Education, London. His research focuses on skills, training, work quality, and industrial relations issues. His most recent book is Skills and Skilled Work: An Economic and Social Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2013). In recent years he has been an expert advisor on skills-related issues to the OECD and the European Union, and to the UK and Singapore governments. Contact: [email protected]

Irena Grugulis is Professor of Work and Skills at Leeds University Business School in the United Kingdom. Her specialist area of research is skills, and she has been funded by the ESRC, the EPSRC and the EU. She is Associate Fellow of SKOPE, held a UK AIM/ESRC Research Fellowship and has worked as both editor and editor-in-chief of Work, Employment and Society. She sat on the academic advisory board of the UK Commission on Employment and Skills (UKCES) and worked with many government skills enquiries including the Leitch Review.

Michael J. Handel is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University in the United States. He studies trends in earnings inequality and job skill requirements, and their relationships to computer technology and the organization of work, including employee involvement practices. His STAMP survey is the basis for sections and items on job skill requirements used in the World Bank’s multi-country STEP survey and the OECD’s multi-country PIAAC survey.

Terence Hogarth is based at the University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research in the United Kingdom where he leads a programme of research on the costs and benefits related to employers’ and individuals’ investments in skills. Since the mid-1990s he has directed the Net Costs of Training to Employers series of studies that have been periodically undertaken in England. Contact: T. [email protected].

Craig Holmes is a labour economist at Pembroke College, Oxford University; Research Fellow on the Employment, Equity, and Growth programme with INET Oxford; and Research Associate of the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organizational Performance (SKOPE) also at Oxford University. His research interests include earnings inequality, social mobility, behavioural economics, and the economics of education, skills, and skills policy.

Martin Humburg is a former researcher and PhD candidate at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at Maastricht University, and is now a senior consultant at ICF International in Brussels. In his dissertation, he examined the relationship between university graduates’ skills and their employability. Contact: [email protected].

Tony Huzzard is Professor of Organization Studies at the Department of Business Administration, Lund University. He has researched and published widely on organizational development, work organization and industrial relations including recent books, with others, Critical Management Research—Reflections from the Field (Sage) and Corporate Governance, Employee Voice and Work Organization: Sustaining High Road Jobs in the Automotive Supply Industry (Oxford University Press). Contact: [email protected].

Ewart Keep PhD is Professor of Education, Training and Skills at the Department of Education, Oxford University. He has published extensively on apprenticeship, lifelong learning, employers’ investment in skills, and skill policy formation. He has advised governments and parliamentary committees across the UK, is a member of committees for all three British higher education funding bodies, and has also advised the Australian and New Zealand governments. Contact: [email protected].

Alice Lam is Professor of Organization Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has researched extensively on how societal institutions influence work organization, learning and knowledge creation within firms. More recently she has examined the role of knowledge in collaborative ventures between organizations, and the role of careers as a vehicle for knowledge transfer between organizations. Contact: [email protected].

Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy and Director of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath. He worked as a teacher in inner London before taking his doctorate at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He has written and co-authored many books, including The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs and Incomes (Oxford University Press, 2011) and has, for over a decade, worked with Phillip Brown on skill formation and the global economy. Contact: [email protected].

Robert I. Lerman PhD is Institute Fellow at Urban Institute, Professor of Economics at American University, and a Research Fellow at IZA in Bonn, Germany. An expert on apprenticeships, he established the American Institute for Innovative Apprenticeship (www.innovativeapprenticeship.org). His published research covers employment issues, inequality, family structure, income support, and youth development. He earned his BA at Brandeis University and his PhD in economics at MIT in the United States.

Mingwei Liu PhD is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University. His research interests include labour relations, trade unions, and skill development in China; high performance work practices; and labour standards and corporate social responsibility in global value chains. He has published articles in leading journals such as the Industrial and Labor Relations Review and British Journal of Industrial Relations as well as chapters in many books.

D. W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work, and Professor Emeritus at OISE/University of Toronto. His books include: Education and Jobs (University of Toronto Press, 2009), Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work (Routledge, 2010), Manufacturing Meltdown (Fernwood, 2011), The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning (Sense Publishers, 2012), Teacher Learning and Power in the Knowledge Society (Sense Publishers, 2012), and Restacking the Deck (CCPA, 2014). Contact: [email protected].

Caroline Lloyd PhD is Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the relationships between product markets, labour markets, work organization, and skills. She has published widely on the issue of low-wage work, including co-editing Low-Wage Work in the UK (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) and is currently working on a comparative study of work organization in the service sector. Contact: [email protected].

Wendy Loretto PhD is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She has published widely in the field of age and employment, with a particular focus on the ways in which gender and age interact to affect work and retirement experiences (Human Relations, Work, Employment, and Society). Her research has been funded by research councils, Scottish and UK governments, charities, trade unions, and employers. Contact: [email protected].

David Marsden is Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics, and a member of the Centre for Economic Performance. He is the author of The End of Economic Man? and A Theory of Employment Systems, and has researched extensively on how societal institutions shape labour markets, as well as on pay systems and incentives. Contact: [email protected].

Cathie Jo Martin is Professor of Political Science at Boston University in the United States and former chair of the Council for European Studies. Her book with Duane Swank, The Political Construction of Business Interests (Cambridge, 2012), received the APSA Politics and History Book Award. She also wrote Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy (Princeton 2000) and Shifting the Burden:The Struggle over Growth and Corporate Taxation (Chicago 1991). She held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and the Russell Sage Foundation, and co-edited with Jane Mansbridge an APSA presidential task force report, Negotiating Agreement in Politics (Brookings 2015).

Ken Mayhew is Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance, at Oxford University, Emeritus Fellow in Economics at Pembroke College Oxford, Extraordinary Professor at Maastricht University, and a member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body. He was founding director of SKOPE, an ESRC research centre on skills, knowledge, and organizational performance. He has published widely in labour economics and policy analysis, and advised many private and public sector organizations at home and abroad.

Jonathan Payne is Reader in Employment Studies in Leicester Business School at De Montfort University in the United Kingdom. His research interests and publications span the political economy of skill formation and use, vocational education and training policy in the United Kingdom, the changing meaning of “skill”, workplace innovation, and job quality.

Chris Phillipson is Professor and Co-Director of the Manchester Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Research on Ageing (MICRA). He is co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Social Gerontology (Sage Books, 2010), and author of Ageing (Polity Press, 2013). His present research focuses on developing ‘age-friendly cities’ and changing retirement transitions. He is Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and a past president of the British Society of Gerontology. Contact: [email protected].

John Polesel is Professor and Associate Dean International in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in the University of Melbourne. He has written over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and commissioned reports, including articles in Oxford Review of Education, Comparative Education, and Journal of Education Policy. His research focuses on youth transitions. He is currently leading a national study for the UK Schools Partnership Forum to deliver vocational learning. Contact: [email protected].

Gail Power is currently manager (advisory, people and organizations) in Ernst and Young’s Sydney Office in Australia. Prior to this appointment she was a senior research analyst at the Workplace Research Centre in the University of Sydney Business School. She has had extensive experience in evaluating and reforming sectoral systems of workforce development. In recent years she has examined the changing skill requirements and evolving communities of trust concerning workforce development in the Australian agricultural sector, especially cotton growing.

Arwen Raddon PhD is Project Manager at Singapore’s Institute of Technical Education. Formerly an academic at the Universities of Warwick and Leicester, she has been a consultant/researcher since 2011. She recently completed a comprehensive World Bank study on Singapore’s workforce development system, and researched ‘back to work women’ for the Institute of Adult Learning and Singapore Workforce Development Agency. Contact: [email protected].

Mari Sako is Professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her research on the comparative analysis of supplier relations, employment systems, and education and training resulted in numerous publications, including Are Skills the Answer? (OUP, with Crouch and Finegold), Prices, Quality and Trust (CUP), and Shifting Boundaries of the Firm (OUP). In 2011–12 she was President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Contact: [email protected].

Günther Schmid is Emeritus Director at the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB) and has been a professor at the Freie Universitaät Berlin. He has written a number of books, including the International Handbook for Labour Market Policy and Evaluation (Edward Elgar, 1996) and Full Employment in Europe: Managing Labour Market Transitions and Risks (Edward Elgar, 2008). He has been a member of various advisory bodies, in particular the committee preparing the German labour market reforms under chancellor Schröder, and he is Honorary Doctor at the Universities of Aalborg and Linnaeus. Contact: www.guentherschmid.eu.

Caroline Smith PhD is Deputy Chief Executive Officer, National Employment Services Association (Australia). Her career spans 18 years in employment, skills, and labour market research, and policy roles across government, academia, industry, and the not-for profit sector in Australia and the United Kingdom. Caroline has published a number of related articles and book chapters and was the 2012 Australian-American Fulbright Commission Professional Scholar in VET. Contact: [email protected].

Gordon Stanley is Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Sydney. He was the inaugural Pearson Professor of Educational Assessment and Director, Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment. He has had considerable experience of quality assurance, assessment, and accreditation issues in vocational education as a member of vocational education and training boards in Australia and Hong Kong. Research interests include quality metrics, and competency-based and standards-based assessment systems.

Mark Stuart is Montague Burton Professor of Employment Relations and Director of the Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change, University of Leeds. He has published extensively on union change, skills, restructuring, and employment relations, including, with others, Partnership and the Modernisation of Employment Relations (Routledge, 2005) and Trade Unions and Workplace Training: Issues and International Perspectives (Routledge, 2012). He has led numerous evaluations of the UK Union Learning Fund. Contact: [email protected].

Johnny Sung PhD is Professor and Head of Centre for Skills, Performance, and Productivity at the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) in Singapore. He has published books, book chapters, reports, and journal articles on high performance working, national skills formation systems, and skills policy. He has provided research input to the UK and Singapore governments as well as international agencies, such as the World Bank and ILO. Contact: [email protected].

Chris Tilly is Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California Los Angeles. He is a labour economist specializing in job quality. His books include Half a Job: Bad and Good Part-Time Jobs in a Changing Labor Market (Temple University Press, 1996), Stories Employers Tell: Race, Skill, and Hiring in America (Russell Sage Foundation, 2003), and Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? (Palgrave, 2012). Contact: [email protected].

Lorna Unwin PhD is Professor Emerita (Vocational Education) and Honorary Professor in the LLAKES Research Centre, UCL Institute of Education, University College London in the United Kingdom. She has published many articles and books on skill formation, including, with colleagues, Contemporary Apprenticeship: International Perspectives on an Evolving Model of Learning (Routledge 2013). She advises the UK government and regional bodies and the OECD. Contact: [email protected].

Rolf Van der Velden is a professor at Maastricht University and Director of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA). He supervised several (inter-)national studies on the transition from school to work (e.g. the REFLEX project: www.reflexproject.org) and was involved in the PIAAC project (http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac). He has published on many studies in the field of education, training, and the labour market. Contact: [email protected].

Sarah Vickerstaff PhD is Professor of Work and Employment, and Head of the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research at the University of Kent. Her research focuses upon paid work and the life course especially at the beginning and end of working life. She is currently PI for an ESRC/MRC-funded research consortium undertaking a study of: Uncertain Futures: Managing Late Career Transitions and Extended Working Life. Contact: [email protected].

Chris Warhurst PhD is Professor and Director of the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, a Trustee of the Tavistock Institute in London, and a Research Associate of SKOPE at Oxford University. He has published a number of books and articles on skills, including, with colleagues, The Skills that Matter (Palgrave, 2004) and Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? (Palgrave, 2012). He has been expert advisor on skills policy to the UK, Scottish, and Australian governments, and an international expert advisor to the OECD’s LEED programme. Contact: [email protected].

Leesa Wheelahan is an associate professor and the William G. Davis Chair of Community College Leadership at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She has published widely on vocational education and training, competency-based training, the links between education and work, and post-secondary education policies. Her publications include Why Knowledge Matters: A Social Realist Argument (Routledge, 2012). Contact: [email protected].

James Wickham PhD is Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin in Ireland where he was Jean Monnet Professor of European Labour Market Studies, Professor in Sociology, and Director of the Employment Research Centre. He has researched and published on employment, migration, and mobility in Ireland and the European Union including most recently with colleagues, New Mobilities in Europe: Polish Migration to Ireland Post-2004 (Manchester UP, 2013). Contact: [email protected].