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Workforce Development in India: Policies and Practices
Majumdar, Shyamal - eSocialSciences - 2008
The task of workforce development in India faces the changing realities of globalization and competitiveness, on one … directions for workforce development in India, especially, the need to reposition technical and vocational education and training …
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Building a Skilled Workforce to Support a Thriving Rutherford County
Ponder, Sandy - In: Tennessee's Business 21 (2013) 3, pp. 2-5
It is predicted that by 2019, the Nashville area will add nearly 151,000 jobs. About 45 percent of these new jobs will require some form of postsecondary experience. More than 67,500 workers will reach retirement age in the next decade, and the projected gap by 2019 in the Nashville area is...
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Partnering with Private Enterprise: Model for Thailand’s Basic Education
Buasuwan, Prompilai; Thongthai, Wasan - In: International Journal of Synergy and Research 1 (2012) 1, pp. 107-116
basic education institutions in preparing students for a  quality workforce 2) to analyze needs and develop guidelines for …  quality workforce 3) to construct a  model for synergistic partnerships between private enterprise and basic education … institutions in developing a  quality workforce. A  mixed-research method was employed to gather data from private enterprise …
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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join … the ranks of the irregular economy, many drop out of the labour force. "Workforce disposal" refers to the process …
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The organizational structure of child welfare: Staff are working hard, but it is hardly working
Blome, Wendy Whiting; Steib, Sue D. - In: Children and Youth Services Review 44 (2014) C, pp. 181-188
Child welfare has been overseen, litigated, reviewed, and chastised by those internal to the system and those who have never faced a traumatized child or an abusive parent. The work of child welfare occurs within organizations, generally large, public sector agencies. Literature has paid little...
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International Migration in Ireland, 2012
Philip J. O’Connell; Joyce, Corona - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2013
This working paper is based on the Irish report to the OECD Continuous Reporting System on Migration (the SOPEMI Expert Group). As such, the focus of the report is largely shaped by the reporting requirements for the preparation of the annual OECD International Migration Outlook. The principal...
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Fiat Chrysler and the future of industry
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Machines cannot fully replace people even in a high-tech industry like car-making. That is one of the conclusions of research which uses the example of the newly merged transatlantic car-maker Fiat Chrysler to debunk a number of myths about the nature of manufacturing and its viability in the...
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Contracting for Primary Health Care in Brazil: The Cases of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro
Araujo, Edson; Cavalini, Luciana; Girardi, Sabado; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This study presents two case studies, each on a current initiative of contracting for primary health services in Brazil, one for the state of Bahia, the other for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The two initiatives are not linked and their implementation has independently sprung from a search for...
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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The Impact of Training Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Programa Joven
Aedo, Cristían; Nuñez, Sergio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
This paper evaluates Programa Joven, a training program conducted by Argentina's Ministerio del Trabajo. The paper adapts and applies a non-experimental evaluation methodology to answer the following questions: (1) Did Programa Joven increase the labor income of the trainees? (2) Did Programa...
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