OECD Reviews on Local Job Creation Employment and Skills Strategies in Korea.

Preface
 Acknowledgements
 Table of contents
 Acronyms and abbreviations
 Executive summary
 Reader\'s guide
 Box 1. Summary of the OECD LEED Local Job Creation Project Methodology
 Local job creation dashboard
 Box 2. Local job creation dashboard
 References
 Chapter 1. Policy context for employment and skills in Korea
 Overview
 Figure 1.1. Share of population by province, 2012
 The Asian financial crisis and Korea\'s jobless recovery
 Figure 1.2. Trends of GDP growth in Korea 1995-2012
 Figure 1.3. Gross domestic expenditure in R & D, 2001-10
 Facing a new crisis: On-going challenges. Figure 1.4. Unemployment rate, Korea and OECD average, 2000­
12Summary of institutional arrangements
 Figure 1.5. Summary of institutional arrangements for employment, training, and economic development policies
 Korean labour market policies: The institutional framework
 Figure 1.6. Percentage of employment spending on active labour market policies and programmes, Korea versus selected OECD countries, 2011
 Figure 1.7. Percentage of active labour market spending on direct job creation measures, Korea, 2002­
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 Public employment services
 Skills and training programmes. Governance framework at the national levelGovernance framework at the regional and local level
 Recent labour market policy developments
 Box 1.1. Key Features of the 2020 National Employment Strategy
 Employment creation by social enterprises
 Korea\'s vocational education and training system
 Gaps between the VET system provision and skills needed in the labour market
 Box 1.2. Korea Job World
 Economic development policies and programmes
 Evolution of Korean regional development policy
 Table 1.1. Annual GRDP and employment growth by region
 References. Chapter 2. Overview of the Korean case study areasOverview
 Bucheon
 Table 2.1. Bucheon: Labour force characteristics
 Bucheon\'s local public employment, vocational education, and training landscape
 Busan
 Busan\'s local public employment, vocational education, and training landscape
 Comparison across the case study areas
 Employment characteristics
 Table 2.2. Employment indicators across the case study areas, 2012
 Table 2.3. Employment by industry, 2010
 The balance between skills supply and demand at the sub-national level. Figure 2.1. Understanding the relationship between skills supply and demandBox 2.1. Explaining the diagnostic tool
 Figure 2.2. Skills supply and demand, Korea, 2010
 References
 Chapter 3. Local job creation dashboard findings in Korea
 Overview of results from the local job creation dashboard
 Figure 3.1. Local job creation dashboard for Korea
 Theme 1: Better aligning policy and programmes to local economic development
 Flexibility in the delivery of employment and vocational training policies.