Download or read book Vocational Training and Job Creation Schemes in the Countries of the European Community written by Michael Bolle and published by Berlin : European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparison study is based on individual studies of different countries on the subject of "Vocational Training and Job Creation Programmes" carried out by well-known German research institutes. It established the different types of job creation schemes in operation in the Member States of the European community. It investigated the linkage of job creation programs with vocational training and evaluated the effects and conclusions of policies on the labor market and vocational training. Three forms of labor market-oriented and vocational training programs were differentiated: employment-oriented, training-oriented, and autonomy-oriented (advocacy of entrepreneurship) job creation schemes. Evaluation was based on three criteria resulting from the economic and social rationales behind the objectives of the schemes: orientation toward the target groups, assessment of output orientation/allocative efficiency, and form of training. In the main, designs of job creation programs were found to neglect the allocative aspect. The weak points in the linkage between job creation schemes and vocational training were even more pronounced. In the majority of programs, the training function had hardly been taken into account at all. Job creation schemes were seen as having great possibilities if more effective combinations of employment effects, demand-oriented work, and vocational training were aimed at and achieved. (Appendixes include a list of abbreviations, glossary, a selected literature listing, and an overview of job creation schemes.) (YLB)
Download or read book International Labour Documentation written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and European Employment written by Colette Fagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date study of the contribution of women and men to changing European economic activity patterns covering all fifteen member states. Based on the work of the European Commission's network of experts on women's employment, it draws on both national and European data sources. The book links trends in the structures of employment with new comparative data on the role of systems of welfare provision in order to explore economic activity patterns by gender. Participation patterns of women still vary widely within Europe, so much attention is paid to the institutions - both in the labour market and welfare - which help to explain these variations.
Download or read book Jobs for Immigrants Vol 4 Labour Market Integration in Italy written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents an overview of the skills and qualifications of immigrants in Italy, their key labour market outcomes in international comparison, and their evolution over time, given the highly segmented Italian labour market and its high share of informal jobs.
Download or read book Negotiating Change written by Carol Diane St Louis and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the last decades, advanced industrial democracies have been confronted by the long term pressures of globalisation, rising and persistent unemployment, ageing populations, rising health care costs, and the severe, but shorter-term shocks of recession, currency runs, and other troubles. The international political economy literature is rife with observations that states are under increasing pressure to reduce taxes and to trim their budgets, and recent austerity efforts in Europe and the United States support the view that governments are responding to these intensifying economic and political incentives by constraining their spending. Simultaneously, governments encounter political pressures to maintain or expand their social welfare safety nets in order to meet the needs of their most vulnerable populations - the unemployed and underemployed, the sick and disabled, pensioners, and the poor. Despite these common pressures, there has been a great degree of divergence over the last decades. Variation endures in terms of the aggregate levels of taxation and expenditures and the distribution of costs and benefits among the citizenry. Reforms have differed in regard to whether they are approached in a confrontational manner by the government alone or in consensual, negotiated process that includes the parliamentary opposition, trade unions, and employers' associations. Some painful reforms have been met with massive strikes and protests, while other painful reforms have been accepted with relative equanimity. Finally, there has been a great deal of variance in the ability of various governments to adopt and implement their reform packages and to survive the potential backlash in response to these reforms. Considering the cases of France, Italy, and Germany during the 1990s, this dissertation sheds new light on the factors determining the approach to reform, the distribution of costs and benefits, and the likelihood that governments will succeed in their attempts to adopt and implement reforms. Chapter 1 introduces the core questions, presents a brief overview of the theory, and explains the methodology and case selection. Chapter 2 develops a theoretical framework for understanding: (a) the factors that lead governments to adopt a particular approach to a reform, (b) the role that partisanship plays in determining the distributional implications of reform, (c) the effect that the approach and the distributional implications of the reform have upon how the parliamentary opposition, the social partners, and the public respond to the reform, and (d) the role that response plays in determining the ultimate fate of the reform - and, in some cases, the fate of that government. Chapter 3 considers the experiences of France, exploring the theory's ability to explain a case of a typical state facing conflicting economic and political pressures to reform its economic, fiscal, and social welfare policies. Chapter 4 tests the theory's applicability to Italy, a country undergoing a particularly high level of economic and political stress. Chapter 5 focuses upon the apparently deviant case of Germany, where both the reform approach and the distributional implications of the reform seem to run counter to the theory's predictions. Deep examination of the role of party factions and shifts in the balance of power within the governing coalition reveals the importance of considering the preferences of the reform leadership rather than the coalition as a whole in order to generate accurate predictions and interpretations. Chapter 6 concludes with an overview of generalisable conclusions and future research directions.
Download or read book Young People in Europe written by Bradley, Harriet and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2005-04-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of itself and its place in the world. Peter Mallios reveals the historical and political factors that made Conrad's work valuable to a range of prominent figures?including Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Richard Wright, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore and Edith Roosevelt?and explores regional differences in Conrad's reception. He proves that foreign-authored writing can be as integral a part of United States culture as that of any native. Arguing that an individual writer's apparent (national, gendered, racial, political) identity is not always a good predictor of the diversity of voices and dialogues to which he gives rise, this exercise in transnational comparativism participates in post-Americanist efforts to render American Studies less insular and parochial.
Download or read book Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2020 Rebuilding Better written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of COVID-19 on local jobs and workers dwarfs those of the 2008 global financial crisis. The 2020 edition of Job Creation and Local Economic Development considers the short-term impacts on local labour markets as well as the longer-term implications for local development.
Download or read book Job Creation and Local Economic Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication highlights new evidence on policies to support job creation, bringing together the latest research on labour market, entrepreneurship and local economic development policy to help governments support job creation in the recovery.
Download or read book Vocational Training written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Reviews on Local Job Creation Employment and Skills Strategies in the Czech Republic written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review looks at a range of institutions and bodies involved in employment and skills policies in the Czech Republic, focusing on local strategies on the Ústí nad Labem and South Moravian regions.
Download or read book The European Labour Market written by Floro Ernesto Caroleo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together up-to-date findings on the regional dimensions of European labour markets. It provides a conceptual and empirical study of the interactions between the European economy and its regions, paying particular attention to the issue of the transition of Central and Eastern European countries to a market economy. The topics analysed include: the structure of the shocks affecting employment (regional, industrial, national), the relationships between labour market efficiency and the regional distribution of unemployment, wage flexibility in EU member countries or in their regions and the role of active labour market policies in affecting the regional distribution of employment and unemployment.
Download or read book Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2016 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Job Creation and Local Economic Development examines how national and local actors can better work together to support economic development and job creation at the local level.
Download or read book The OECD Jobs Strategy Technology Productivity and Job Creation Best Policy Practices 1998 Edition written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-07-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report points to a decline in public support for research and development (R&D), mainly affecting basic, long-term research, and examines the levelling-off in private sector R&D along with changes in its direction away from basic research towards more market-driven and short-term efforts.
Download or read book OECD Employment Outlook 2019 The Future of Work written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2019 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook presents new evidence on changes in job stability, underemployment and the share of well-paid jobs, and discusses the policy implications of these changes with respect to how technology, globalisation, population ageing, and other megatrends are transforming the labour market in OECD countries.
Download or read book Misleading Trajectories written by Andreas Walther and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonly acknowledged that the risk of social exclusion has increased over the last few decades and that young people in particular are one of the most vulnerable groups, especially if they have not yet achieved a stable so cial position. In this context a stable position is interpreted as having obtained a stable position within the labour market. Across Europe it has also become commonly acknowledged that policies have to do 'something' for young people as they represent the future of present societies. In fact, among politi cians and policy administrators there is a broadly shared myth that it is e nough doing 'anything' for young people. The thematic network 'Misleading Trajectories' which is documented in the following chapters was concerned with examining these myths and highlighting the traps of social exclusion that are inherent in policies focusing on youth transitions (school, vocational trai ning, careers advice, social security, labour market programmes). The net work was funded by the European Commission under the 4th Framework Programme for Research, Technology and Demonstration, under the strand "Targeted Socio-Economic Research" from 1998 to 2001. It involved teams from eight countries, which were Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The network began from the observation that many policies on the local, regional, national and European level that are intended to 'lead' young adults' towards gainful employment, adult status and social integration, are in fact 'misleading'.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Forms of Labour Administration written by Normand Lécuyer and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2002 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study examines how labour administrations are coping with globalization, modernization, and political and financial constraints while also contributing to the economic and social development of their countries.
