An additional obstacle to foreign investment and job creation has been the country's lack of a trained and experienced labour force possessing the desired productive skills.
On the one hand, they regard higher education as a sort of intellectual sieve, designed merely to identify the brightest future employees, rather than to equip them with productive skills.
What is vastly more significant, however, than these oddments of technological history is the minute subdivision of productive skills and their transmission from father to son in populations adequate to the demand for iron ore from Noricum, most notably, or for glass and paper from Alexandria.
But what do we mean by productive skills?
Technological improvements have made it easier to document students' productive skills.
In some instances the so-called receptive and productive skills operated simultaneously.
Thus, the receptive skill (of listening) is also measured in productive skills (of speaking and writing).
The correlation between the two latent factors of receptive skills and productive skills was 0.93.
Firstly, whereas NCT measures only the receptive skills, others additionally measure productive skills.
This was accompanied by an increase in the amount of time spent on productive skills.
The population lacks education and productive skills, particularly in the impoverished countryside, which also lacks basic infrastructure.
