The development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been associated with its growing petroleum industry since late 1930s. This development has created a sudden wealth in the country that shaped its labour market as well as its skill formation systems in the years after. It has also, thanks to the...

Per pastaruosius porą dešimtmečių Lietuvos darbo rinka išgyveno nemažai sukrėtimų. Atkūrus Lietuvos nepriklausomybę buvo pereita prie rinkos ekonomikos, todėl teko reorganizuoti visą profesinių mokymų sistemą. Iki tol nusistovėjusi sistema, kuri naudojo pigią darbo jėgą buvo...

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exerted substantial pressure on health systems around the world, and the Romanian medical system, which in the last three decades has faced numerous challenges generated by several factors, such as corruption that has strongly highlighted the disaster generated by the...

The focus of this professional report is sectoral workforce development programs. Sectoral programs represent a fairly recent innovation in workforce development. Rather than train a low-skilled worker for low-skill job with low pay, sectoral programs train workers for higher-skill jobs that...

We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...

My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in...

The economic performances of North and South Korea over the past decade have differed significantly. This is largely due to the government policies of the two countries, which affect business in conflicting ways. Despite the differences in economic growth, there are a number of similarities...