"Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers, who represent over 60 per cent of the global workforce, to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations, illustrating how...

The present study examines trends in employment status in Egypt in an important era of democratic transition. It examines determinants of different labor force participation by gender. The empirical analysis is based on the World Values Survey of the fifth wave (2005-2008). A comparative...

The matching between workers' skills and job requirements is a topic of high concern for policymakers, potential workers and enterprises. Jobs demands is more and more technological and new types of job roles continue to emerge. To face affectively this increasing demands of specific...

This article presents the theoretical approach of the Europlacement with particular reference to the economic crisis and to the Italian university system. In the first section, there is a presentation of the structural changes of the Italian Universities system and of the strategies for...

The aim of this article is to analyze the situation of young people to illustrate their difficulties in dealing with the process of transition into working life, particularly in the current context of economic crisis. Firstly, there is explored the EU proposal, so-called 'renewed Lisbon...

Recent economic and cultural changes have complicated the transition from university to the labour market, which highlights a renewed need for undergraduates' and postgraduates' orientation and guidance. In this paper we shall try to reflect on the practices of university guidance and on how it...

Each project partner conducted research, statistical and literature based, into new graduates' prospects of finding work after their studies, and then, through SWOT analysis, extricated factors improving or obstructing chances of finding work. The following contributing factors were extracted by...

Growth is a necessary but not sufficient condition for poverty reduction. Reforming our education, employability and employment ecosystem is key to making progress. This article makes the case that India’s next wave of poverty reduction will come from accelerating India’s four...