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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively … neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th … found to be not different than India's. Finally, the paper reviews briefly efforts of the government to expand TVET at …
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Human capital potential of India's future workforce
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015
. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as the future workforce is concerned. This paper discusses India … preprimary education. In conclusion, India will have to focus, inter alia, on early health and preschooling (soft skill …
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Does board usage of knowledge and skills affect internationalization performance of SMEs? : a case of Lithuania
Bužavaitė, Monika; Korsakienė, Renata - In: Journal of business economics and management 23 (2022) 1, pp. 145-161
Internationalization of SMEs is encouraged by the advantages of new environmental conditions and appealing business opportunities, but remains a challenging process. Top management teams and more specifically board of directors appear to be a critical determinant in addressing...
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The value of skill training programs for self-employment, entrepreneurship and non-cognitive traits. Evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Chakravarty, Shubha; Lundberg, Mattias K. A.; Nikolov, … - 2017 - Current Draft: September 12, 2017
Using a "fuzzy" regression discontinuity design, we examine the short-run impacts of a vocational training program on self-employment, new business plans, entry into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial traits using data from the Nepal Employment Fund training program, which funds training...
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Impact of entrepreneurial skills on the firm's performance : evidence from manufacturing SMEs in India
Narkhede, Balkrishna E.; Nehete, Rupendra S.; Raut, … - In: International journal of Indian culture and business … 8 (2014) 2, pp. 216-236
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Assessing the social and macroeconomic impacts of the high-skill labour market integration : the European qualifications framework
Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel; Kielyte, Julda - 2016
In the age of the knowledge economy and globalisation, the skill mobility is perceived as one of the key factors for fully unlocking the human capital potential. The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) aims at increasing the workers' and learners' mobility among the EU Member States by...
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Geography of skills and global inequality
Burzynski, Michal; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of skills and their implications for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education and mobility decisions, population growth, and income...
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The Taylor Principle and (In-)Determinacy in a New Keynesian Model with Hiring Frictions and Skill Loss
Rannenberg, Ansgar - 2010
We introduce skill decay during unemployment into Blanchard and Gali's (2008) New-Keynesian model with hiring frictions and real-wage rigidity. Plausible values of quarterly skill decay and realwage rigidity turn the long-run marginal cost-unemployment relationship positive in a "European"...
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Long-Term Unemployment : Attached and Mismatched?
Wiczer, David G. - 2019
In this paper, I quantify the contribution of occupation-specific shocks and skills to unemployment duration and its cyclical dynamics. I quantify specific skills using microdata on wages, estimating occupational switching cost as a function of the occupations' difference in skills. The...
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The Taylor principle and (in-)determinacy in a new Keynesian model with hiring frictions and skill loss
Rannenberg, Ansgar - 2010
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