Large-scale construction projects, even when they involve massive amounts of public money have been notorious for the overwhelmingly "white, male" face of the workforce. While governments profess to be committed to equal opportunity in employment, making the labour force more inclusive on public...

Dans un premier temps, nous examinons l'elaboration d'un programme de formation. Nous constatons sa construction et sa mise en oeuvre se realise dans un contexte marque par une tension entre deux principes de gestion, l'anciennete et la competence. Cette tension permet de rendre compte des...

Le rapprochement education/ economie qui se fait sentir depuis quelques annees au Quebec conduit a s'interroger sur la nature de l'offre de formation professionnelle. La presente analyse s'interesse en particulier aux orientations normatives et institutionnelles proposees par un comite de...

In this paper we evaluate a Norwegian vocational rehabilitation program by comparing employment outcomes of trainees and nonparticipants using nonexperimental data. A matching estimator is used to calculate the training effect for different subgroups of the sample. We demonstrate how bounding...

Earlier research into determinants of academic success in accounting has been conducted primarily in the USA, and has produced inconclusive results. The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of six variables (namely, gender, prior accounting knowledge, academic aptitude,...

This paper constructs a model of a training market affected by both problems, and examines the rationale for training levy schemes, intended to make firms increase investment in vocational training. It is shown that regulating firms, or equivalently financing a subsidy through taxation of...

Prevention and long term disease management have been added relatively recently as `new' components of a modern day total healthcare services system. The goal of primary prevention, which includes medical preventive services, lifestyle interventions and screening services, is to maintain a...

Many health plans and providers rely on return on investment (ROI) to determine the value of a disease management programme. ROI, however, is not the most meaningful measure of the true value of a programme. Depending on the methods used to calculate costs and determine the size of the...