This research is concerned with the skills-match between researchers' Ph.D. training and their subsequent university employment. Self-rated skills-matching is considered in light of the anchoring vignettes technique. This technique is used to adress comparability issues in survey research. It...

The development policy of Cape Verde has evolved in a setting of severe structural constraints and persistent restrictions, with potential impediments to growth. The ongoing process of change adopts a transformation strategy closely linked to the consolidation of a democracy based on sound...

The beginning of a new professional position and setting goals for the first year on the job could represent the most important steps in professional development. The graduate is facing with a new reality, a different work environment with fundamental differences between university and economic...

В статье анализируется современная система профориентации, ее влияние на рынок труда, приводятся результаты проведенного автором эмпирического исследования,...

Outlines initiatives that employers and employers' organizations can take to stimulate youth employment. Describes measures in the areas of: creating a positive environment for job creation; enhancing employability; promoting youth entrepreneurship; and promoting equality at work for young women...

ILO pub. Article on vocational guidance practices in Latin America - discusses major results of a questionnaire survey showing that vocational guidance services are limited in terms of target group, and by lack of overall labour market information. References.

Knowledge workers are said to be the vanguard of a new era in work and employment, with some even claiming that these workers have been freed from the constraints of organizational employment (Pink, 2001; Reed, 1996). However, many knowledge workers operate as employees and emerging research...

There is a well established literature on the antecedents of organizational commitment, though the relative importance of these antecedents to particular groups of workers remains unclear. Relying on a general set of antecedents for all workers may result in the application of inappropriate HRM...

The process of value creation out of the acquisition, transfer and exploitation of scientific knowledge has become a major challenge for developed economies. Knowledge institutions like universities and R%D centres are important actors in this context. This paper offers a novel contribution to...

The circumstances in contemporary society have created new conditions for how the organising and legitimising of contemporary 'knowledge workers' develop. It seems like the today's practice and expertise of knowledge workers is hard to comprehend in studies merely based in the prevailing theory...