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Patterns of students' earning orientations and expectations

Veroszta, Zsuzsanna - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

The paper investigates students’ earning expectations in the context of different motivations towards graduation … respond three research questions. Firstly, we examine the position of students’ wage orientation among other degree …-related values (ie. income-oriented/not income oriented students) and explore its determinants. Secondly, the study analyze the …

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Unemployment – under conditions in the territory of Slovak Republic and the measures for its solution

Rievajová, Eva - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

Since the onset of the financial and economic crisis, the situation in the area of employment, in average, didn't improve within the whole EU. Between Member States and the positions of individual groups of the population, there are significant differences in the area of labour market....

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High unemployment and a segmented labour market in South Africa: A suggested macroeconomic model

Burger, Philippe; Fourie, Frederick - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

Few countries have as serious an unemployment problem as South Africa. In the period 2000-2013 the narrow (and official) unemployment rate averaged 24.1%. The broad unemployment rate (which includes the discouraged unemployed) averaged 33.4%. At the same time the informal sector is very small...

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The Determinants of Job Stability in the UAE: Using Satisfaction Variables

Abdulrhman, Khalifa; Katsaiti, Selini - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015

This study investigates the job stability pattern in the United Arab Emirates and the effect of satisfaction on job stability for nationals and expatriates, in both the private and public sector, for male and female workers. It investigates the micro factors that affect the employee’s decision...

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Weight Discrimination in the German Labor Market

Katsaiti, Marina-Selini; Shamsuddin, Mrittika; Shaw, Philip - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015

Several papers have looked into the effect of obesity on wage and employment, mainly using data for the US. However, none has looked into the effect of obesity on upward mobility and unemployment duration. Using biannual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel data (GSOEP), covering 2002-2012,...

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Labour markets in Visegrad countries ten years after the 2004 EU enlargement

Klimko, Roman - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015

In 2004 the European Union expanded to include ten new members, including all Visegrad countries. It can be concluded that growth potential of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia was obvious. However, the global economic crisis hit the labour markets of V4 countries significantly,...

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The use of Social Network Sites for the Employment Seeking Process

Sander, Tom; Teh, Phoey Lee; Sloka, Biruta - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

Social networks are becoming more and more important in employment seeking process. The importance of social networks in this respect has been researched also in academic research worldwide and discussed on scientific conferences. The aim of the paper is to analyse the experience of the use of...

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The Impact of Imperfect Information on the Wages of Native-Born and Immigrant Workers: Evidence from the 2006 Canadian Census

Dar, Atul - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

This paper empirically examines how imperfect information about wage offers and reservation wages among employees and employers respectively impacts on the wages of Canadian born and immigrant workers. We estimate these effects from 2006 census data using a two-tier stochastic wage frontier. Our...

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Advantages of study abroad from the students’ perspective

Tamas, Anca - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

Purpose-the aim of this paper is to compare the perceptions of future and former international students on the … questionnaires from students participating at a university fair and 19 in-deep interviews with former international students; SPSS … correlation between the two sets of advantages was found; the perception of future and former international students on advantages …

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Internationalization Indicators for Higher Education Evaluation – The Case of Taiwan

Wang, Ru-Jer - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

The purpose of this paper is to examine the current role of internationalization in the QA (quality assurance) evaluations of institutions of higher education in Taiwan. The method of documentary analysis was employed in the study. Firstly, a brief description of the structure and contents of...

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