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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013: A Generation at Risk
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2014
This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing … both on the continuing labour market crisis and on structural issues in youth labour markets. The report provides an … overview of youth labour markets at the global and regional levels. It also focuses on the skills mismatch in advanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945479
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Secondary Schools and the Transition to Work in Latin America and the Caribbean
Castro, Claudio de Moura; Carnoy, Martin; Wolff, Laurence - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This paper provides an analysis of the organization of secondary schools in Latin America and the Caribbean. It deals with the confusing and controversial matters of providing schools for an increasingly heterogeneous clientele and the triple role of preparing students for higher education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216219
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Occupational training to reduce gender segregation: The impacts of ProJoven
Ñopo, Hugo; Robles, Miguel; Saavedra, Jaime - In: Revista Economía (2008) 62, pp. 33-54
This paper illustrates the process of program evaluation for ProJoven, the Peruvian youth labor training program. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596674
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Attempts to undermine tobacco control: tobacco industry "youth smoking prevention" programs to undermine meaningful tobacco control in Latin America
Sebrie, Ernesto M; Glantz, Stanton A - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2012
We sought to understand how the tobacco industry uses "youth smoking prevention" programs in Latin America. We analyzed … advocates. Since the early 1990s, multinational tobacco companies have promoted "youth smoking prevention" programs as part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641652
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Secondary Schools and the Transition to Work in Latin America and the Caribbean
Castro, Claudio de Moura; Carnoy, Martin; Wolff, Laurence - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This paper provides an analysis of the organization of secondary schools in Latin America and the Caribbean. It deals with the confusing and controversial matters of providing schools for an increasingly heterogeneous clientele and the triple role of preparing students for higher education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654549
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2012 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2013
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630750
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Why has the share of training firms declined in Switzerland?
Schweri, Juerg; Mueller, Barbara - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 2/3, pp. 149-167
"The Swiss mass apprenticeship system is market based. The share of training firms as a percentage of all firms is therefore an indicator which receives much public attention. The share of training firms declined markedly from 1985 to 2001, dropping from 24.7 to 17.6%. This has often been...
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Mindestlohnevaluation jetzt und nicht erst 2020
Arni, Patrick; Eichhorst, Werner; Spermann, Alexander; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Anhebung der Altersgrenze für Jugendliche auf 21 Jahre und ein Stufenmodell für Jugendliche nach britischem Vorbild. Die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990912
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Jugend auf der Verliererstraße
Ochel, Wolfgang - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 54 (2001) 10, pp. 31-32
In Deutschland ist das relative verfügbare Einkommen der jungen Menschen im Vergleich mit dem Durchschnitt der OECD-Länder unterdurchschnittlich niedrig und das der älteren Menschen überdurchschnittlich hoch. Ähnlich ungünstig schneiden junge Menschen ab, legt man die Armutsrate zugrunde:...
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Zur Beschäftigungsproblematik und Beschäftigungspolitik in Osteuropa
Globokar, Tatjana; Kahn, Michele - In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 15 (1982) 3, pp. 325-337
"In einer Zeit, in der westliche Länder sehr hohe Arbeitslosenquoten erleben, verkünden die Länder des COMECON (Bulgarien, DDR, Polen, Rumänien, Tschechoslowakei, UdSSR, Ungarn) triumphierend, daß sie diese Geißel für immer ausgemerzt und die Vollbeschäftigung verwirklicht haben. Dennoch...
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