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The current essay focuses on the need for formal education in the area of intercultural communication and training of intercultural competences. It builds on cultural identity and diversity literature, on the experiment conducted in the Low Countries in introducing a new topic for students from...
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The current essay focuses on the need for formal education in the area of intercultural communication and training of intercultural competences. It builds on cultural identity and diversity literature, on the experiment conducted in the Low Countries in introducing a new topic for students from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079809
We analysed a new counselling and support programme for people with low employment prospects in Austria. The Austrian … Public Employment Service introduced regional pilots to investigate whether a new counselling strategy could improve labour … market outcomes for this group. Eligible unemployed individuals could opt for third-party counselling and support, access a …
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In a randomised controlled trial in Austria, lowering caseloads for caseworkers in a Public Employment Office led to more meetings with unemployed clients, more job offers, more programme assignments, and more sanctions for noncompliance with job search requirements. It shortened unemployment...
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This paper provides a new perspective in classifying ALMPs depending on their main objective, also in light of their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide incentives for retaining employment, incentives for...
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employment office closure. The Government's objective was to replace traditional face-to-face employment counselling with modern … online counselling and simultaneously generate savings in outlays. The reform created natural experiment circumstances that … allowed us to estimate the aggregate causal effects of face-to-face counselling and advice. We estimated the effects of the …
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In this paper we analyze the macroeconomic forecasts of the Consensus Forecasts for 12 countries over the period from 1996 to 2006 regarding bias and information efficiency. A pooled approach is employed which permits the evaluation of all forecasts for each target variable over 24 horizons...
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Die Betriebsratsarbeit steht unter einem wachsenden Veränderungsdruck. Neue Orientierungen im Management von Unternehmen und umfassende Restrukturierungen auf der betrieblichen Ebene wirken sich zwangsläufig auf die Aufgaben der Interessenvertretungen aus. Um die neuen, an sie herangetragenen...
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