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The importance of a highly skilled workforce has become increasingly relevant in the context of the European Union’s new strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth — ‘Europe 2020’. Policies encouraging wide participation in continuing training are therefore an important...
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This paper examines the determinants of participation in, and the amount of time spent on, public and private adult education and training in Canada. Using the master file data from the 1998 Adult Education and Training Survey, we estimate probit models of adult education and training (hereafter...
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A factual and descriptive analysis of the employment situation in Bulgaria showed that the transition to a market economy has led to a substantial reduction of employment. The economic restructuring has begun in 1990 has proved very difficult, and the privatization of the large industrial...
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We provide a novel set of stylized facts on individuals engaging in adult education using the Adult Education Survey (AES) conducted by TurkStat for the first time. This way we provide the first evidence on the determinants of participation in adult education in a developing country, Turkey. Our...
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States like Greece, Portugal, Ireland , Spain and Italy The advanced state debt are nothing more than a symptom of a lack of …
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introduction of new technologies in media companies in Romania, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus, using an institutional approach. We … part of national reports on media and new technologies in Romania, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus. The reports were made during …
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foodstuffs (olive oil, ewe’s milk cheese) but at a lower price. On the other hand, for Spain and Portugal efforts to stimulate …
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This study attempts to investigate a supply function for electricity in Portugal through cointegration and causality … product, inward foreign direct investment, carbon emissions from electricity production and population size in Portugal by … crucial in boosting Portugal’s socio-economic development towards a more efficiency-orientated and less resource …
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Portugal in the period 1998-2009, we find that women have a lower probability of upward mobility and a higher probability of …
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features of the foresight methods are being used in some labour policy making experiences. Case studies developed in Portugal …
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