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The Chinese labour market has undergone an extensive restructuring in the last four-and-a-half decades, following the start of the economic reforms, and the open door policy for foreign investment in 1978, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. The nature of employment contracts, labour market...
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“Employment and sustainable development: education, training and R&D in the regulation of the labour market” Ilona …, Vocational Training and – desirably – Innovation in that regulation process . We stress that sustainable development imply an … effective upgrading of work and skills, requiring adequate structural education, training and R&D policies. …
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– in terms of skill & training, age, and gender. The second stream emerges due to ‘Push factors’ or distress conditions in …
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Investment Bank (EIB), aim to provide subsidized loans to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) for hiring and training young … concessional loans provision to SMEs as a strategy to bolster youth employment and training opportunities.Starting with a … vocational training programs for youth. In addition, it exposes the main instruments mobilized in this field by the EU …
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The role of the minimum wage as « standard indicator » of public employment policies made a lot of controversy in the literature. The last few years, the issue renewed interest in the distributions offset angle, widening inequality gap and the emergence of insecurity in the workplace....
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Although there is consensus in the literature that immigrants generally adjust in terms of their labour market status the more time they spend in the host country (Chiswick, 1978; Borjas, 1985; Kahanec and Zaiceva, 2009), the economic crisis that struck Europe shortly after the 2004 and 2007 EU...
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purpose of WDS job training services is to facilitate the transition from job loss to stable re-employment. Which job training … by this research was, "Can job training help alleviate the adverse wage impacts and time spent in prolonged job search … Labor training program exposure as explanatory factors for post-training wage and job search time differentials, both direct …
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The objective of this paper is to provide a comparative assessment of the consequences of worker displacement in France and the United States. I estimate wage losses of displaced workers in the two countries and examine the relative contribution of two important sources of post-displacement wage...
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We examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform- oriented transition countries, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1989-1999, we show that after the initial shock, displacement rates in Estonia have...
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This paper examines whether the loss of a job increases the likelihood of future difficulties on the labour market. We study displacement resulting from all plant closures (with ten or more employees) in Sweden in 1987 and follow their labor market outcome up to 1999. The control group is...
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