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Making the Most of Skills in Denmark

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  • Stéphanie Jamet

    (OECD)

  • Vincent Koen

    (OECD)

Abstract

Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills, even though Denmark spends more than many OECD countries on education, labour market policies and adult learning. Sluggish productivity growth over the past two decades raises the question of how to develop better skills and use them more efficiently to achieve stronger and more inclusive growth. Improving the performance of compulsory and tertiary education would help all students acquire the right skills. Ensuring adults upgrade their skills is another key challenge, which involves strengthening the adult learning system. Reforms of taxation and of the wage setting system in the public sector would promote a better allocation of skills economy-wide. Finally, to activate skills more broadly, reforms to raise labour market participation should continue and the efficiency of active labour market policies will have to be increased further. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of Denmark (www.oecd.org/economic-surveydenmark. htm). Mettre pleinement à profit les compétences au Danemark Les études montrent que le Danemark se situe proche ou légèrement au-dessus de la moyenne de l’OCDE pour ce qui est des compétences des étudiants et des adultes, alors même qu’il dépense plus que nombre d’autres pays de l’OCDE au titre de l’éducation, des politiques du marché du travail et de la formation des adultes. La croissance peu dynamique de la productivité au cours des deux dernières décennies amène à s’interroger sur les moyens d’améliorer les compétences et de les utiliser de façon plus efficace pour assurer une croissance plus forte et plus inclusive. Une amélioration de la performance de l’enseignement obligatoire et de l’enseignement supérieur contribuerait à l’acquisition par tous les étudiants des bonnes compétences. Faire en sorte que les adultes augmentent leurs compétences est un autre enjeu clé, qui implique le renforcement du système de formation. Des réformes de la fiscalité et des modalités de fixation des salaires dans le secteur public encourageraient une meilleure allocation des compétences dans l’ensemble de l’économie. Enfin, pour activer les compétences de manière plus large, les réformes visant à accroître le taux d’activité doivent se poursuivre et l’efficacité des politiques actives du marché du travail doit être encore accrue. Ce Document de travail se rapporte à l’Étude économique de l’OCDE du Danemark, 2013 (www.oecd.org/fr/eco/etudes/etude-economique-danemark.htm).

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  • Stéphanie Jamet & Vincent Koen, 2014. "Making the Most of Skills in Denmark," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1119, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1119-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5jz2qt4crff8-en
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