This book offers holistic analytical insight into skill formation processes and institutions in the twelve Central and Eastern European countries by referring to the timeframe of historical development of skill formation from the fall of communism to the present time and future development trends.

Skill formation in Central and Eastern Europe. A search for patterns and directions of development offers holistic analytical insight into skill formation processes and institutions in Central and Eastern European countries by referring to the timeframe of historical development of skill formation from the fall of communism to the present time and future development trends. Leading researchers of skill formation from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine refer to critical junctures and the findings are compared and discussed in five concluding chapters focused on important cross-cutting topics: development of social dialogue over skill formation, qualifications policy and development of qualifications systems, implications of European integration and EU policies for governance and institutional reform of skill formation, features and implications of policy borrowing and policy learning from the Anglo-Saxon and German speaking countries, respectively.

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Vidmantas T tlys is Professor of Education Science and Researcher at Vytautas Magnus University Institute of Educational Research in Kaunas, Lithuania. His research areas cover development of vocational education and training policies, VET curriculum design, skill formation and qualification systems. Jörg Markowitsch is Senior Partner at 3s Research & Consulting in Vienna, Austria, and policy advisor on national and EU-Level in the area of education and labour markets. His areas of research include comparative research in vocational education and training, European educational policy, skill taxonomies and skills forecasting. Jonathan Winterton is Professor of Work and Employment and Head of the Department of Work and Employment Relations at Leeds University Business School. His research addresses human capital issues along two axes: one concerned with the quality of work, from high involvement to precarious work, the other with how human capital is developed, deployed, and retained. Samo Pavlin is Professor of Education and Human Resource Development of Department of Human Resources and Social Management, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research areas cover knowledge management, development of competencies and European developments in higher education and vocational education.

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** Vidmantas Tutlys, Jonathan Winterton, Jörg Markowitsch and Samo Pavlin : Skill formation in the post-communist CEE countries. Areas for research and discussion - Vidmantas Tutlys, Genut Gedvilien , Lina Kaminskien and Egl Stasiunaitien : Development of skill formation in Lithuania: Neoliberalism, statism or new welfare state? - Ilze Buligina and Biruta Sloka : Skill formation policies in Latvia in the aftermath of economic crisis: towards a systemic consideration of skills needs. - Krista Loogma : Expanding the institutional landscape of skill formation: Estonia. - Horacy Debowski and Wojciech Stechly : Towards better governance and integration: Polish policy development in the skills formation system 1989-2019. - Dominik Dvorák and Petr Gal : Skills for the labour market in the Czech Republic: between national and local perspectives. - Juraj Vantuch and Dagmar Jelínková : Skill formation in Slovakia at the crossroads - Andrea Laczik and Éva Farkas : Institutional arrangements of skills development in Hungary between 1989 and 2020: the tortuous reality - Samo Pavlin, Klara Skubic Ermenc and Branko Bembic: Skill formation in Slovenia: segmentation and sectoral disparities. - Teo Matkovic and Nikola Bukovic : Unstoppable force meeting immovable object: the impact of Europeanization on the Croatian skill formation regime. - Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva, Kaloyan Ganev and Radostina Angelova : Skill Imbalances in Bulgaria since the Second World War: policy responses and effects. - Zoica Elena Vladut : The institutional development of skill formation in Romania: between state-led and collective skill formation models. - Serhii Melnyk : Development of a skill formation system in Ukraine: a case of late and iterative institutionalization? - Jonathan Winterton and Emma Wallis : Social dialogue and skill formation systems in the Central and Eastern Europe - Jörg Markowitsch and Horacy Debowski : The development of education and training systems in the CEE countries and the role of qualifications frameworks. - Sandra Bohlinger and Vidmantas Tutlys : European integration and EU policies: implications for development of skill formation in the CEE countries**.** - Jonathan Winterton : 'Anglo-Saxon' influences on Central and Eastern Europe and the market-based model of skill formation. - Andreas Saniter and Christianne Eberhardt : Collective skill formation in Germany - a blueprint, a mirror or not applicable for policy learning in the CEE countries? .