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Promoting Life Long Learning through Individual Accounts: from Asset-Based to Capability-Based policies

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The promotion of Life Long Learning (LLL) has become a high priority in the economic and social agenda of OECD countries. It is considered as one of the corner stones of the “active welfare state”. Several countries have introduced (or at least experimented) Individual Learning Accounts as a way to promote LLL. ILAs designate all the schemes that provide the individual with funds he/she can use to take-up further training on his/her own initiative. Our aim here is to analyze the theoretical and political underpinnings of ILAs policies and to make a link between those underpinnings and both the design, the implementation and the potential outcomes of existing schemes. In section 1 we introduce the distinction between two political paradigms which may provide underpinnings for ILAs: the asset-based view versus capability-based view. In section 2 we analyze some experiences of ILAs in the light of this distinction, focusing mainly on three countries: The United-Kingdom, the United-States and France

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  • Jérôme Gautié & Coralie Perez, 2012. "Promoting Life Long Learning through Individual Accounts: from Asset-Based to Capability-Based policies," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 12021, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
    • Handle: RePEc:mse:cesdoc:12021
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    1. White, Stuart, 2000. "Review Article: Social Rights and Social Contract Political Theory and the New Welfare Politics," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 30(03), pages 507-532, July.
    2. Esping-Andersen, Gosta, 1999. "Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198742005.
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    1. Nicola Brandt, 2015. "Vocational training and adult learning for better skills in France," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1260, OECD Publishing.

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    Keywords

    Individual learning account; lifelong learning; welfare state; labour market policy; asset; capability; social investment;

    JEL classification:

    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy

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