Reducing youth unemployment and generating more and better youth employment opportunities are key policy challenges worldwide. Active labor market programs for disadvantaged youth may be an effective tool in such cases, but the results have often been disappointing in Organisation for Economic...

Die Digitalisierung treibt den Wandel der Welt der Arbeit voran. Dieser Wandel könnte durch die wissenschaftlich-technische Dynamik, die von Unternehmen kontrollierte Nachfrage nach qualifizierten Arbeitskräften oder vielmehr durch das Qualifikationsangebot der Arbeitnehmenden determiniert...

This paper is a review of the current status of skill gap in India and reviews the initiatives, skills and competences that would be required for the purpose of transforming students into entrepreneurs. The author suggests that entrepreneurship skills and competencies are different from those...

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine national skills development initiatives in India as the country embarks on building skilled manpower to meet the demand of SME sectors in the coming decade. This paper identifies two national level programmes namely, National Skill Development...

The socio-economical changes in the Bulgarian society leave their traces in all spheres of public life and in the military education system in particular. The implemented reforms in the Republic of Bulgaria assign to military higher schools the task to train officers with management skills and...

The socio-economical changes in the Bulgarian society leave their traces in all spheres of public life and in the military education system in particular. The implemented reforms in the Republic of Bulgaria assign to military higher schools the task to train officers with management skills and...

Entrepreneurship triggers the economic condition of a country. Entrepreneurship increases the standard of living and has provided opportunities to improve the standard of living. There are several studies on the relationship between the entrepreneurial characteristics and entrepreneurial...

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...