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Is the labor market vulnerability of less-educated men really about job competition? : New insights from the United States
Gesthuizen, Maurice; Solga, Heike - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 47 (2014) 3, pp. 205-221
"There are various reasons why less-educated men have higher risks of labor market vulnerability - risks such as being unemployed or, if employed, having only low socioeconomic status. The commonly used argument is that these higher risks result from increased job competition caused by an...
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Vocational training, SMEs and innovation in Navarre.
Olazaran, Mikel; Albizu, Eneka; Lavía, Cristina - In: Cuadernos de Gestión 13 (2013) 01, pp. 15-40
Recent studies within the innovation systems perspective have not paid enough attention to the role that Vocational … Training (VT) centres and technical workers can play in innovation processes. In this paper we review the recent international …, in-company work training, hiring of graduates, continuous training, and innovation-related services. Results show that …
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Meeting the Challenge: The Dynamics of Poverty in Connecticut
Carstensen, Fred; Coghlan, Jill - Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis (CCEA), … - 2013
This Connecticut Poverty Report describes the change in the number and proportion of Connecticut residents living in poverty, and the increase in both number and percent between 1990 and 2010, based on Census Bureau reports. Demographic measures of age, race, family structure, education and job...
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Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8.5 percent, is one of the very few European...
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Improving the Economic Situation of Young People in France
Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The economic situation of young people is unsatisfactory. Educational inequalities have been widening for over a decade, due to a sharp decline in the results of the most highly disadvantaged students. The unemployment rate for the 20-24 age bracket has not dropped below 16% for nearly 30 years....
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Youngsters - Disadvantaged Group on the Labour Market - Alternative Employment
Niță, Dorina; Fleșer, Alina - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 11 (2011) 1, pp. 179-186
Young people are confronted not only with a high risk of not finding a job, but also with a higher risk of becoming unemployed, as compared with other occupational groups on the labour market as well as with other issues related employment, professional training inconsistent with the labour...
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Promotion of Active Measures and Employment Stimulation
Popp, Lavinia Elisabeta - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 12 (2012) 2, pp. 223-235
Researches in the field of the labour market has allowed the identification of certain specific mechanisms for employment promotion; at present, on the Romanian labour market we find passive policies, concretised in financial aids paid to the unemployed, along with active policies, constituting...
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THE APPROACH OF AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR STOPPING THE PHENOMENON OF MIGRATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE DURING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
Feraru, Petronela Daniela - In: CES Working Papers 4(3) (2012) September, pp. 323-339
This study identifies and proposes the approach of a new intelligent system regarding stopping the phenomenon of migration of young people during the current economic crisis. We investigate the manner in which the labour market and the educational system in Romania can contribute to the option...
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The impact of knowledge management and strategy configuration coherence on SME performance
Bagnoli, Carlo; Vedovato, Marco - In: Journal of Management and Governance 18 (2014) 2, pp. 615-647
According to recent literature, effective knowledge management should be coherent and based on the firm’s strategy …. Prior empirical research, in contrast, tries to evaluate the impact of knowledge management initiatives directly on … performance but finds inconsistent results and not allows the understanding of knowledge management contribution to competitive …
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Market orientation, innovation and organizational commitment in industrial firms
Moreira, Antonio Carrizo; Silva, Pedro Miguel - In: Tržište/Market 25 (2013) 2, pp. 123-142
(innovation, organizational commitment and performance) of market orientation in industrial SMEs.This article follows a new … orientation influences innovation and innovation, in its turn, influences business performance. Moreover, market orientation and …
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