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Quandaries of the labour market in tourism as exemplified by the case of Austria
Smeral, Egon - In: Tourism Review 59 (2004) 4, pp. 14-20
restaurant business. Yet, in spite of high unemployment (unemployment rate: 17,3%) and schemes to import foreign seasonal workers … the mystery of high levels of unemployment concurrent with a perceived scarcity of workers, key contributions are the high … seasonal fluctuations in demand and the mismatch theory. The phenomenon of seasonal unemployment may be understood as a special …
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Job Market Signaling: An Active Learning Approach for Teaching Education and Employment
Wolla, Scott - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 9 (2014) 2, pp. 89-106
Economics classrooms are typically teacher-centered, textbook-driven, and often dominated by chalk-and-talk methodology. This paper advocates for an active learning approach and offers a lesson plan for key concepts. More specifically this lesson uses the economic concept of job market signaling...
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A forum of futurists: A look back and a look ahead
Wilson, Ian - In: Strategy & Leadership 27 (1999) 4/5, pp. 37-48
This article begins with a reprint of interviews from the November/December 1995 issue of Planning Review (the previous identity of Strategy & Leadership.). In those interviews, four leading futurists — Ian Wilson, Oliver Markley, Joseph Coates, and Clement Bezold — discussed the critical...
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Banking on top talent
Hartman, Anne - In: Strategy & Leadership 28 (2000) 3
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All I Want Is a Job! : Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System
Gatta, Mary - 2014
In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an...
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Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences : Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health
Couch, Kenneth A - 2014
This book explores how job loss, the onset of health limitations, and changes in family structure can have a pronounced influence on individual and household well-being across the life course. These events are typically studied in isolation, whereas this book provides a systematic overview and...
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Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion
Sundaram, Ramya - 2015
Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion presents ""profiles"" or ""portraits"" of individuals who have limited labor-market attachment. It is widely accepted that those with limited attachment to the labor market are a highly heterogeneous group (including, for instance, recent job losers, long-term...
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A company of one : insecurity, independence, and the new world of white-collar unemployment
Lane, Carrie M - 2011 - 1st ed.
Prairie -- 2. A Company of One -- 3. The Hardest Job You'll Ever Have -- 4. Rituals of Unemployment -- 5. Man Enough to Let My …
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Kansas in the Great Depression : Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation
Fearon, Peter - 2007
Unemployment, Riots, and the Emergency Work Relief Program -- 4 Rural Kansas Drought, Rehabilitation, and Relief -- 5 The WPA, the …
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