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How are skills and productivity linked, and how is this changing over time?

Background

Our goal is to increase productivity and growth by bringing education and business closer together and improving the quality of our skills programme, so that we meet current and future business skills needs.

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Df E Areas of Research Interest 2024

Related UKRI funded projects

  • Workforce productivity skills diagnostic platform - research and experimental development.

    Forget the productivity ‘puzzle’… Britain faces a productivity crisis. National and firm-level productivity in the UK has worried policy makers and business leaders for decades. But now flat growth, a debt overhang from ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project directly addresses the link between skills and productivity, proposing a data-driven platform to diagnose skills gaps and optimize skills.

  • ESRC RCUK Innovation Fellowships

    Skills and management practices are important determinants of firm productivity, but the UK has persistent problems in both areas. Recent developments create new challenges. New immigration arrangements following Brexit ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project investigates the relationship between skills and firm performance, focusing on skills, organizational practices, and productivity.

  • Supporting the Industrial Strategy

    1) Developing Skills: Strengths and Weaknesses in the System, and What can be Done. The new Industrial Strategy must consider how the education system can create the general and specific skills needed by businesses toda...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the development of skills needed by businesses, mapping data on firms and labor markets, and supporting innovation and diffusion.

  • A new approach to benchmarking the skills of companies and their employees, which then delivers the shortest and most efficient path to learning and career progression.

    Skill shortages are a major issue in the UK and arise because there are not enough people with particular skills to meet demand. The Open University estimates that skill shortages cost the UK £2bn a year in higher ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • SkillsPulse

    The study will address significant gaps in the understanding of skills deficiencies in Europe – i.e. the extent, causes, and implications of skills shortages and skills gaps. Skills shortages refer to where employers fac...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  • Skills2Capabilities

    The Skills2Capability project is about understanding how skill systems across Europe can reduce the level of skills mismatch in their labour markets. It is recognised that future labour markets will be more mobile with m...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  • GoalShaper Feasibility Study

    "Low productivity has no simple solution and there is no easy answer; The solution to this problem needs careful consideration and a feasibility project is proposed to measure the efficacy of our assumptions. Low s...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • Ethos SkillsPlanner

    Matching the skills output of educational establishments with the needs of industry, particularly in a rapidly changing economy, is problematic. The inability to integrate the various bespoke datasets has meant the holis...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • Skillsplanner

    The research to be carried out focuses on providing academic knowledge in the area of skills and employment to the project as it develops to ensure a robust evidence base. It will also react to employer needs for researc...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • Skills, Knowledge, Innovation, Policy and Practice

    This research project explores the relationship between skills, management practices and innovation to better understand how government policy and industrial management might intervene to improve the performance of the U...

    Funded by: ESRC