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Education and Youth Unemployment: A Reappraisal
Ingham, Mike - In: Journal of Economic Studies 16 (1989) 3
It is a widely held belief that labour market failure amongst young people is heavily influenced by formal educational attainments. Few British studies, however, have paid specific attention to the question of what particular level of academic achievement is valued most highly by the market...
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The transition from apprenticeship training to work
Franz, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Volker - In: International Journal of Manpower 23 (2002) 5, pp. 411-425
This econometric study deals with the question as to what extent apprentices, after successfully completing their training, stay with the firm that supplied their training and, if so, how long that job tenure holds. Determinants of both decisions can be seen from both the employer’s and the...
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Minimum Wage Protection in Industrialized Countries
Bazen, Stephen - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 62-73
Minimum wage fixing came to be increasingly questioned during the 1980s owing to high unemployment and the rise of …
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Youth Minimum Wage Rates: The Dutch Experience
van Soest, Arthur - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 100-117
during the 1970s, youth minimum wages were lowered in the 1980s, in response to the large increase of youth unemployment … unemployment, with expected signs.  …
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Plumb Center taps into growth through apprenticeships
In: Human Resource Management International Digest 20 (2012) 4, pp. 9-11
profits. Social implications – Highlights the social value of employing young apprentices at a time when youth unemployment is …
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Social enterprise: evaluation of an enterprise skills programme
Denny, Simon; Hazenberg, Richard; Irwin, Wray; Seddon, Fred - In: Social Enterprise Journal 7 (2011) 2, pp. 150-172
Purpose – Evaluation of employment skills programmes (ESP) delivered by work integration social enterprises (WISEs) for the benefit of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) is often undertaken by the programme providers. This method of evaluation often lacks objectivity...
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Regional diversity of employment structure and outflows from unemployment to employment in Poland
Rogut, Aleksandra; Tokarski, Tomasz - In: International Journal of Manpower 23 (2002) 1, pp. 62-76
Analyses factors determining the outflows from unemployment to employment across regions in Poland over the years 1992 … structure of the regional labour markets in Poland. Concludes that the values of outflows from unemployment to employment are …; and that the employment structure of regional labour markets has a strong impact on outflows from unemployment to …
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Opportunities and limitations of CSR in the postcommunist countries: Polish case
Lewicka‐Strzalecka, Anna - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 6 (2006) 4, pp. 440-448
in Poland have been defined in the paper on the basis of the previously cumulative knowledge as well as the results of …
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Jobless growth: a new challenge for the transition economy of Poland
Wolnicki, Miron; Kwiatkowski, Eugeniusz; Piasecki, Ryszard - In: International Journal of Social Economics 33 (2006) 3, pp. 192-206
studying sources of unemployment in Poland and as well as in any high growth economies. Originality/value – It is the only …Purpose – To explain the sources of jobless growth in Poland, the country undergoing economic system transition and … interpretation proposed by Barro and Sala‐i‐Martin to determine the growth threshold level of jobless growth in Poland. The technical …
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Shareholder activism and the ethical harnessing of institutional investors
Ivanova, Mila - In: critical perspectives on international business 12 (2016) 2, pp. 189-214
participation in corporate governance by stakeholders such as NGOs who have traditionally been uninvolved in corporate decisions …-structured interviews, analysis of documents and participant observation. Findings First, the study sheds light into the ways in which NGOs … other stakeholders such as NGOs and ordinary people a real stake in companies’ affairs. What is more, the study highlights …
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