The International Mobility of Students Apprentices at the Heart of Building a Skills Economy: the Example of the Corsican Territory

At a time of exacerbated globalization,education,and more generally training,is a key factor for our society,at the heart of territories challenged to renew themselves in the face of the emergence around the globe of new centers of economic and demographic gravity,with their own models.Training,and its link with working life,is a real challenge to face,in the near future,the technological,economic,political and environmental revolutions that we are already facing.Beyond what is called sandwich training or continuing vocational training in Higher Education,the current challenge is indeed around lifelong learning,old concept but whose forms always call for an actualization in modernity.At the heart of a small island territory like Corsica,this challenge is all the more crucial to take up as it foreshadows its attractiveness in a context of glocalisation[8]now durably anchored.In an ever-changing global environment,with moving landmarks,increasingly complex personal and professional lives,and where everything that seemed well compartmentalized yesterday faces increasing porosity,the purpose of this contribution is to explain that the international mobility of students apprentices,at the heart of the construction of a skills economy,is a major strategic issue for the development and structuring of a small territory such as Corsica.

Study on Employee-sharing in China

Labor shortages caused by an aging population and falling fertility present an obstacle to China’s modernization drive.Since the limited labor resources take time to increase,employee-sharing as a collaborative and innovative mode of employment represents a novel strategy for addressing the sharp declines in the working-age population and labor supply.Based on the theories of the sharing economy,gig economy,and skills economy,this paper develops a systematic framework for employee-sharing and explains its significance for the country,employers,and individuals in light of flexible employment and employee-sharing practices.At the national level,we advocate transforming the identity of employees from“corporate assets”to“social assets”,their labor relationship from“dependence on employers”to“independent social members”,and their teams from“corporate governance”to“labor union governance”.At the corporate level,we recommend that businesses streamline fixed-term workforce and transform themselves into platform-connected social entities.At the individual level,we establish a basic framework for employee-sharing to expand employee income sources and improve the social protection system,and elaborate on its significance for the country,employers,and individuals.The employee-sharing mechanism can be adopted step by step by resolving issues such as employee labor contract termination and management of shared employees.This gradualist strategy seeks to create a mode of employee-sharing that is feasible and in line with current trends for the benefit of the country,employers,and employees,and to contribute a Chinese solution and perspective to the global question of labor recruitment.