Green Jobs and Career Pathways: An Arranged Marriage in Service to a 21st-Century Workforce...

"The paper explores the proposition that green job career pathways will modernize the education system and build new opportunity structures into the labor market. It begins with a review of the literature on green jobs, exploring the number of ways green jobs are defined, the dynamics of the green jobs labor market, and the debates and implications for government policy and intervention into the green economy. For each grant studied, the paper also explains how the early start-up of each partnership was affected by the context of each case; whether and how stakeholders experienced a need to make systemic changes; and the numerous challenges each faced" (p.1). (Abstractor: Author)

Full publication title: Green Jobs and Career Pathways: An Arranged Marriage in Service to a 21st-Century Workforce Development System

"Implications for Workforce Policy Development and Practice • External regulation has a formative role in improving job quality. • Investments in an integrated workforce and economic development strategy have a formative role in creating a demand-driven system. • State and local education and workforce development agencies have a formative role in creating partnerships and responsive programs. • Build a responsive system through the flexible application of best-practice models. • Use the tension between the need for short and long-term training to build new pathways. • Build new capacity to respond to the needs of green jobs/industries by connecting existing resources" (p.219). (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff)

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• Resource Publication Date: 2012
• Author(s): Scully-Russ, Ellen
• Organizational Author(s): The George Washington University
• Funding Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
• Resource Availability: Publicly available
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• Posted in: Workforce System Strategies