Search results for "Employment"

Continuous Professional Training and the Situation of Labour Market in Romania

2013

Abstract This study is part of a wider research carried out in recent years, in North-East Moldova – important socio-economic region of Romania – ancient Romanian culture and civilization hearth. It addresses issues of human capital development in the context of sustainable development of the City Suceava and Botosani. This study addresses the issue of human resource development, focusing on continuous training and employment. It is known that the development is based on the human resource, so there must be local responsabilities in terms of skilled labour and increase the adaptability of environamental changes. The results obtained from the research will reflect some of the practical steps…

From the economic to the social contribution of the Social Economy. Monetary assessment of the social value created for the Spanish economy

2020

The role of the Social Economy (SE) in society is increasingly acknowledged by social agents and institutions, especially in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Commitment to SE requires the support of quantitative measurement of its contribution to society from an aggregate perspective. The difficulty in specifying it in quantitative terms is related to the assessment of the contribution of SE?s differentiating and intrinsic values. These values contribute to the fight against some structural problems that persist in modern society in terms of unemployment, inequality, territorial imbalance, environmental problems and social exclusion that surpass the economic spher…

NGOs and the implementation of active labour market policies : the case of Finland and Sweden

2012

¿Técnicos o profesionales? ¿Qué opinan los implicados? El caso de los agentes de empleo y desarrollo local (AEDL)

2014

Desde que aparece una actividad laboral -empleo u ocupación- hasta que llega a ser considerada una profesión, muchas son las dificultades que ésta ha de superar. En el presente texto, centramos nuestro interés en analizar las dificultades existentes en una de las actividades surgidas en las últimas décadas del siglo XX -la de generar empleo y desarrollo a nivel local o, lo que es lo mismo, la actividad de los AEDL (agentes de empleo y desarrollo local)- en su proceso de reconocimiento como profesión. En base a lo que se expondrá a lo largo de este artículo, buscaremos conocer la percepción que tiene el propio colectivo de afectados sobre la realidad de su situación profesional, así como de …

Reflections about the integration of global challenges into higher education future programs: Application in the field of ICT security

2014

The paper deals with focusing on EIE higher education to future European and global challenges. There are available many studies oriented to future challenges, future research methodologies and future intelligence systems, but what is evident, all of them report area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as future challenge area. The Millenium project defined 15 Global Challenges assessing the global and local prospects for humanity. The European Commission also defined ICT as challenging area and divided the ICT into eight challenges of strategic interest to European society. All Member States of the EU are responsible for the organization of their education and training syst…

Estimating regional differences in the utilization of labour resources

1993

This paper introduces a method for the analysis of regional differences in the utilization of labour resources. The method developed is a version of ‘components-of-change’ analysis in which labour force utilization in each regional labour market is compared with the sitation of a labour market with the highest level of utilization. The aggregate measure is split up into three components: open (registered) unemployment, hidden unemployment and underemployment. The effects of structural factors on aggregate differences are also estimated. In the empirical section the situation of Finnish provinces in 1989 is analysed within the framework developed. The results indicated the existence of large…

The Impact of Underemployment on Individual and Team Performance

2011

The issue of underemployment is one of increasing concern for countries across the globe. For example, in the USA estimates have put the number of underemployed as high as 20.3%, while in Europe the number of overqualified workers (just one dimension of underemployment) has been estimated at 21.5% (Groot & Maassen van den Brink, 2000). Unfortunately, given the current global economic crisis, this situation can only be expected to worsen in the near future. The international labor pool is becoming more educated and qualified (Peiro, Agut, & Grau, 2010) while organizations worldwide are seeking the minimum effective level of human capitol in an effort to cut costs. As such fewer jobs demandin…

L'Italia senza lavoro

2019

The 2007-8 economic crisis has produced an aggravation of imbalances already existing in the Italian labour market. As Istat has highlighted, in the last few years the distances that separate the various generations and categories in the labour market have grown: citizens with different levels of education, the North and the South, the Italians and foreigners. Long-term unemployment also increased during the years of the crisis, another typical feature of the Italian labour market.

THE ECONOMIC INTERVENTION STRATEGY OF THE INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN PALESTINE. A CASE STUDY: THE SHORT-TERM EMPLOYMENT PROJECTS

Many countries around the world, both developed and developing, are characterized by high level of unemployment. This phenomenon has profound implications not only for economic activity, by limiting the amount of labour supply and therefore potential output, but also for political and social unrest, as the experience of many Middle-Eastern and North-African economies has recently shown. Unemployment is particularly relevant for Palestine. Indeed, since the mid-1990s, Palestine is one of the countries in the world with the highest rate of unemployment. Persistently high unemployment reflect several characteristics of the Palestinian economy, mostly important the dependence on the Israeli's e…

Quanti sono i disoccupati? Misurare il non lavoro in tempo di crisi. Un percorso di analisi dagli anni Trenta a oggi

2019

This chapter seeks to explore the complex interaction between statistical devices, socio-economic processes and political practice with reference to the problem of unemployment in twentieth-century Italy, comparing three moments of economic crisis in which the lack of work assumed particular relevance in the public debate and in the life of workers (the 1930s, the 1970s and the last recession that began in 2007), focusing on the problems related to the measurement of work and non-work.