Skill Formation Regimes in South Asia: A Comparative Study on the Path-dependent Development of Technical and Vocational Education and Training for the Garment Industry

In: Komparatistische Bibliothek v. 21

In: Comparative studies series v. 21

Abstract

In the face of accelerated economic globalisation, many of the industries in economically less developed countries have become more technology-intensive. Skill formation processes, both inside and outside firms, are therefore changing. This study scrutinises such transformations by comparing - from the perspective of historical institutionalism - the skill formation regimes of the garment industries in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It sheds light on the differences between the trajectories of the in-firm skill formation regimes of the two countries, and reveals the important part that varying path