Publication

This brief encourages EU and national policy-makers to take note of the varied nature of the low-skilled, rather than viewing them as a homogenous group. The authors contend that the 'low-skilled' label can hide a number of different scenarios: labor market detachment, migration and obsolete skills that are the result of macroeconomic structural changes. For this reason, they believe that lifelong learning is necessary to keep up with new technology and to shield workers from the risk that their skills will go out of date or that they will be detached from the labor market.