The necessity of growth support was embedded into the core message adopted by the European Commission in the Europe 2020 strategy, which recommends a number of structural reforms in order to boost labor utilization and productivity growth (European Commission, 2011). This article presents an...

In development engineering, practitioners often strive to empower local communities through technology. Empowerment, however, is typically not well-defined and rarely assessed, leading to an erosion of its meaning. In this study, we define empowerment as capacity building through technology...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest among scholars on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their beneficial effects on elderly wellbeing; almost all contributions support the positive impact of ICTs among older population because their use has been demonstrated to...

Market forces in Swedish education / Magnus Dahlstedt & Andreas Fejes -- School choice, inequality and segregation -- Public schools' market strategies / Håkan Forsberg & Mikael Palme -- Equity and choice for newly arrived migrants / Dennis Beach & Marianne Dovemark -- Consequences of free...

Der dritte Bildungsweg, d.h. der Hochschulzugang ohne zusätzlichen Schulbesuch über eine berufliche Ausbildung und Tätigkeit wird von einer kleinen jedoch steigenden Zahl von Menschen beschritten. Die vorliegende qualitative Studie untersuchte Lernbiografien von Studierenden des Dritten...

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve training specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general schooling at the upper secondary level. This offers a unique opportunity to assess the theoretically ambiguous long-term relative...

Most OECD countries experience high unemployment rates and declining growth in higher educational attainment. An often suggested government policy is therefore to allocate resources towards formal schooling for adults. However, returns on such investments are uncertain and the foregone earnings...

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary school level. Despite the dominance of programs offering specific training, long-term relative...