THE DEMAND FOR HUMAN-RESOURCES AND TRAINI NG INSTITUTIONS IN A FEW EUROPEAN REGIONS

Discussions about new, post-Fordist, production models assume that com panies think it is important for personnel to be highly qualified. Int erviews with heads of firms and of vocational schools indicate that re cruiting ever more highly qualified wage-earners is not the only possi bility. The choice about the levels of training (or education) and of job qualifications quite clearly has to do with firms' market strategi es. The availability of human resources trained by national or regiona l institutions is taken into account when drawing up market strategies . The latter are, in fact, diversified. There is not a single model of job-training that should be imitated.