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France : promoting economic opportunities and well-being in poor neighbourhoods
Brandt, Nicola - 2018
Thanks to a highly developed welfare state, poverty is moderate on average in France, but – as in other countries – highly concentrated in some neighbourhoods. Their residents face many social disadvantages, including high unemployment and inactivity, schools with many struggling children,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823692
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Vocational training and adult learning for better skills in France
Brandt, Nicola - 2015
France devotes a great deal of resources to vocational training for youths and especially adults, but the system is unduly complex and yields rather poor returns. The basic literacy and numeracy skills of many French adults remain weak in international comparison, with harmful effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399664
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Improving the economic situation of young people in France
Boulhol, Hervé - 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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Do the average level and dispersion of socio-economic background measures explain France's gap in PISA scores?
Boulhol, Hervé; Sicari, Patrizio - 2013
OECD’s PISA publications highlight the impact of economic, social and cultural status (ESCS) on students’ results within countries. The focus here is to investigate whether ESCS measures could contribute to differences in aggregate educational outcomes between countries. There is some...
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Networks of innovation : towards new models for managing schools and systems
2003
: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and … seminars held in Hungary, the Netherlands and Portugal, organized with the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and … Innovation. They were concerned with the "how?" and not just the "what?" and "why?" of changing schools for the future …
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Enhancing SME productivity : policy highlights on the role of managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages
Marchese, Marco; Giuliani, Elisa; Salazar-Elena, Juan Carlos - 2019
Based on an extensive review of the academic and policy literature, this paper focuses on the role of managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages in enhancing SME productivity. The paper is structured as follows. First, it presents estimates on productivity gaps by firm size to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107195
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Spurring growth in lagging regions in Slovak Republic
Demmou, Lilas; Haluš, Martin; Machlica, Gabriel; … - 2015
convergence requires a multi-pronged approach involving innovation, labour market and educational policies. Completing the …
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Boosting productivity in Finland
André, Christophe; Chalaux, Thomas - 2016
firms, making the tax system more growth-friendly, and supporting innovation, basic research and young firms’ financing …
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Promoting the diffusion of technology to boost productivity and well-being in Korea
Pak, Mathilde - 2020
adequate skills and awareness of digital benefits or dangers (online security, cyberbullying, addiction). Promoting innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421298
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Individualising training access schemes : France - the Compte Personnel de Formation (Personal Training Account - CPF)
Perez, Coralie; Vourc'h, Ann - 2020
The creation of the Compte Personnel de Formation (CPF), an individualised financing scheme for professional training, marked an important step for the French professional training system. Implemented in 2015, it is the only example at the international level of an individual learning account in...
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