The development policy of Cape Verde has evolved in a setting of severe structural constraints and persistent restrictions, with potential impediments to growth. The ongoing process of change adopts a transformation strategy closely linked to the consolidation of a democracy based on sound...

В статье анализируется современная система профориентации, ее влияние на рынок труда, приводятся результаты проведенного автором эмпирического исследования,...

The beginning of a new professional position and setting goals for the first year on the job could represent the most important steps in professional development. The graduate is facing with a new reality, a different work environment with fundamental differences between university and economic...

ILO pub. Article on vocational guidance practices in Latin America - discusses major results of a questionnaire survey showing that vocational guidance services are limited in terms of target group, and by lack of overall labour market information. References.

Outlines initiatives that employers and employers' organizations can take to stimulate youth employment. Describes measures in the areas of: creating a positive environment for job creation; enhancing employability; promoting youth entrepreneurship; and promoting equality at work for young women...

This research is concerned with the skills-match between researchers' Ph.D. training and their subsequent university employment. Self-rated skills-matching is considered in light of the anchoring vignettes technique. This technique is used to adress comparability issues in survey research. It...

Over the past forty years women have made significant advancements in the labor force through the elimination of gender barriers and increases in earnings potential and human capital accumulation. In this paper I attempt to analyze how the relationship between fertility timing and the career...

Critics of the trait approach to the study of entrepreneurship have called for adaptation of theory from other disciplines to explain entrepreneurial behavior. This study responds by focusing on the first step in the process by which entrepreneurial career preference is developed. Social...

The Australian Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program is typical of the ways many governments are seeking to promote cross-sector R&D collaboration. Scientists are key resources in these organizational arrangements. However, there is only fragmentary information available about why and when...

This paper examines occupational choice to test if an extended array of variables, including personality traits, influences an individual?s occupational choice. Typically the heterogeneity of labour markets is examined by looking for compensating wage differentials as first advocated by Adam...