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workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of …)cognitive skills ; family policy ; training policy ; active labor market policy ; tax policy ; benefit systems ; pension policy … workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of …
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Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills … productivity growth over the past two decades raises the question of how to develop better skills and use them more efficiently to … students acquire the right skills. Ensuring adults upgrade their skills is another key challenge, which involves strengthening …
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children from families who benefit from PWPs show increased foundational cognitive skills (FCS). We focus on four child FCS … that policy interventions such as PWPs may be able to mitigate the effects of early poverty on cognitive skills formation …
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After steady employment growth since the 1990s, Spain has experienced the sharpest increase in unemployment among OECD countries during the crisis, amplified by structural problems of the labour market. Very high de facto severance payment of permanent contracts has resulted in a rigid dual...
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Context: The article contributes to a discussion of how patterns of employment and qualifications are modified by the ongoing industrial transformation, called Industry 4.0. Although this transformation is said to be a global phenomenon, scholars increasingly discuss the national differences in...
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Purpose: The paper explores the relationship between vocational education and training (VET), the labour market and social justice in the current conjuncture. Approach: The paper adopts an approach rooted in critical policy analysis. It consequently sets the discussion within the wider...
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inclusion. This meta-analysis aims to examine the effectiveness of experimental programs in developing employable skills for … skills; (2) the participants should be people with functional diversity; (3) the study should have a design with an … experimental group were interview skills and career planning. Furthermore, it was found that the programs showed a higher degree of …
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In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm...
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In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286184