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Social mobility : is there an advantage in being English in Scotland? : Paper for the 50th Anniversary European Congress of the Regional Science Association International "Sustaina...
Ham, Maarten van; Findlay, Allan M.; Manley, David; … - 2010
A number of powerful forces have produced uneven opportunities for occupational advancement in Scotland. Edinburgh as capital of a devolved nation, hub for financial service activities and regional head office location for many public sector bodies boasts many of the characteristics that one...
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Employability and skills of higher education graduates : a Portuguese study
Rolim, Cássio Frederico C.; Machado-Taylor, Maria de … - 2016
problem nowadays is the unemployment among graduates. The universities from developed countries, particularly in the European … topic discusses the skills that these graduates will need to meet the requirements of the labour market. Divided into … graduates from HEIs, analysed from the perspective of employers. The sample in Portugal will choose among 1000 employers from …
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Occupational choice of migrants : does NEG tell something new?
Ivanova, Vera; Ushchev, Philip; Vakhitova, Hanna - 2015 - Very preliminary
We consider an empirical model in which individuals choose jointly their destination country and occupational choice. We plan to estimate this model using Ukrainian micro-data. The main results (to be yet obtained) will shed light on joint determinants of workers' migration decisions and their...
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Matching higher education offer with labour market needs till 2020 : the case of Lodzkie region
Arendt, Lukasz; Rzenca, Agnieszka - 2014
Transformation to post-industrial or knowledge-based economies causes changes in the structure of labour markets with growing demand on highly-qualified workforce. In XXI century human capital has become one of the most important production factors determining competitiveness and innovativeness...
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Is higher education mobility a good investment for EU lagging regions? : the case of Master and Back, an active labour market policy co‐financed by the European Social Fund. : XII...
Orrù, Enrico - 2012
This research claims that investing European Union (EU) Structural Funds in Learning Mobility (LM) might lead to further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social networks (social capital). Historically, LM has been...
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Decomposing the rural-urban differential in student achievement in Colombia using PISA microdata
Ramos, Raúl; Duque, Juan Carlos; Nieto, Sandra - 2012
Although there are hundreds of works using PISA microdata to analyse the determinants of educational outcomes, only a few of them have considered the relevance of geography. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of differences in educational outcomes between students in rural and urban...
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The influence of education on rural population employment : regional disparities
Dinculescu, Corina-Georgeta - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 279-286). 2016
A higher level and continuous education throughout entire life (necessary for adapting to the changes in the labor market) and a better health offer greater chances of sustained economic and social development. Also, a higher education level contributes to decrease the disparities between...
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Study on continuing vocational training for rural activities
Ursu, Ana - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 108-115). 2023
The study aims to analyze the modalities of vocational training in rural areas in order to identify systematic contents that are relevant to define the perception of the general role of continuing vocational training in the economic and social development of rural areas, the functions of...
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Growing surrounded by decline : do the growing sectors benefit from sharing a labour pool with declining sectors
Morkute, Gintare - 2014 - Work in progress
Background and motivation: The paper investigates what effects the colocation of growing and declining sectors has on the hiring behaviour of growing sectors in terms of labour pooling and employment growth. Given the importance of geographical proximity in labour matches, the agglomeration...
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Job switching : what's in it for me?
Backman, Mikaela; Kilkenny, Maureen - 2014
This paper analyse how previous experience and affiliation influence individual employees but also the current employers. Knowledge can be embodied in several different forms, in individuals, in books, in machines, or in processes. Human capital refers to embodied knowledge in individuals,...
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