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Developement of the Centers of Vocational Education in Latvia
2015
The purpose of this study was to find impact factors and results of stuctural reforms of vocational education in Latvia. The objective was to find that during 4 years period reforms started as planned, but did not continued planned way. It may impact vocational education of Latvia in future. This study used analysis of 12 documents impacting reforms. One of basic results is creating Centers of Competence of vocational education. Findings are focused on creating factors and results of these centers. Author shows purposes and criterias of reforms, development on time axis, and results and impact factors of creation of the Centers of Vocational Education, gives suggestions for further reforms.
Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia, Vol. 22, Issue 1
2014
ILONA BAUMANE-VITOLINA. Conceptualising the Resource Based View for Innovation Research and Measurment in Small and Medium Enterprises ; VIESTURS PAULS KARNUPS. Latvian and Turkish Economic Relations 1918-1940 ; GREGORY OLEVSKY. Functioning of Latvian manufacturing: up the stairs Which Lead Down ; LEONARDO PATACCINI, ELENA KINZHEBAEVA. Structural Reforms in Emerging Economies: Argentina and Russia through the Latvian Mirror ; INESE KALNIŅA. The Council of Europe and the Protection of National Minorities
Decentralization and growth: what if the cross-jurisdiction approach had met a dead end?
2013
International audience; The relationship between decentralization and economic growth is generally studied from a perspective stressing universal or quasi-universal regularities across jurisdictions. That approach has generated many insights but seems to reach its limits. The paper explains why it allows contrasting positions with regard to the benefits of decentralization even among proponents of free and competitive markets. And it seems from the empirical literature that no robust and economically significant cross-jurisdiction relation between decentralization and economic performance or growth, except perhaps their independence, has been found. The absence of a relation valid across ju…
More firms, more competition? The case of the fourth operator in France's mobile phone market
2010
Accepted, Forthcoming; International audience; To foster competition the French government authorized a fourth operator, ‘Free', to enter the country's mobile phone market at the end of 2009 alongside Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom (BT), who held respectively one-half, one-third and one-sixth of the market. By using a stylized model of France's phone market, we have examined what we call the regulator's nightmares and dreams. If Cournot competition is in place before Free's entry, minimizing the total profit fails to maximize the consumer surplus and the total surplus; the maximum most realistic price fall is 6.7% compared to three-way competition and could be 1.7% only; if Orange, SFR an…
Labor and product market reforms and external Imbalances: Evidence from advanced economies
2021
We explore the impact of major labor and product market reforms on current account dynamics using a new “narrative” database of major changes in employment protection for regular workers and product market regulation for non-manufacturing industries covering 26 advanced economies over the past four decades. Our main finding is that product market deregulation is associated with a weakening of the current account, while labor market deregulation is associated with an improvement. These effects are transitory and driven by both saving and investment responses. Labor and product market reforms both have a more positive impact on the current account balance when implemented under weak macroecon…
Risk assessment and profit sharing in business networks
2011
Abstract Nowadays network is the preferred governance form to conduct economic transactions. Network solution allows to reach flexibility maintaining cost and quality level. Since network concept refers to a great variety of organizational hybrids it is possible to choose the one that fits better market requirements. The new trends in inter-organization relationships push towards network solutions: companies are interested in relationships with partners and customers to overcome resource dependence, to enter too risky market or simply differentiate their business portfolio. The proposed research focuses on the network concept aiming at highlighting threats and opportunities to investigate t…
Developing business networking opportunities for SMEs through business ecosystem and ICT
2010
Globalisation is a new challenge for European small and medium enterprises; indeed, on one hand, it represents a threat, since new emerging companies are entering their domestic market, but on the other hand, it represents the opportunity to enter new emerging and growing markets. In order to win this challenge, European SMEs need to play the networking card; in fact, it is well acknowledged that networking can improve SMEs effectiveness and efficiency which is absolutely necessary to win the globalisation battle. Many public regional institutions are thinking about how to improve the networking capacity of their SMEs through specific programs and investments. This paper reports the results…
On the drivers of successful crowdfunding: The case of the platform Verkami
2021
This article analyzes the determinants of successful crowdfunding initiatives using a sample of 5,251 projects from the reward-based Spanish platform Verkami. In contrast to most of the literature that has measured success with a dichotomous variable, we approach success with a continuous one, namely the ratio of achievement, which is measured as the obtained resources over the total amount requested by the promoter. We consider a set of potential determinants of success, which are theoretically well-grounded and cover a variety of spheres related to project features. Results suggest that factors related to the signaling theories such as partnership, having previous experience and interact…
REFORMAS EDUCACIONAIS NO CHILE: UM OLHAR A PARTIR DA PERSPECTIVA DE GÊNERO
2021
RESUMEN El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar las reformas del sistema educativo en Chile entre los años 1965 bajo el gobierno de Eduardo Frei Montalva; 1973, con Salvador Allende Gossens; y 1981, con la privatización y la municipalización de la educación durante el régimen militar de Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. Estos tres momentos políticos hicieron cambios importantes en la educación en Chile, expandiendo y estableciendo parámetros educativos que cruzaron esos momentos históricos y han llegado a nuestros días. Sin embargo, dentro de este tema, la cuestión de género fue poco discutido. Por lo tanto, en este estudio, analizaremos cómo la educación, en estos tres períodos históricos,…
Revista complutense de educación
2001
M.Jesus.Martinez@uv.es Este articulo revisa los principales obstáculos y problemáticas que han tenido lugar en los sistemas europeos de Formación Profesional. Se reconoce para ello tres agrupaciones de paises a fin de estructurar el presente estudio, cada una de las cuales coincide en sus principales rasgos: los sistemas de Formación Profesional técnica y escolar (en el Sur de Europa y los países escandinavos), los sistemas mixtos de Formación Profesional o sistemas duales (en Alemania, Holanda y Austria) y los paises donde prevalecen los sistemas de Formación Profesional post-ocupacionales (Gran Bretaña e Irlanda). De cada una de las agrupaciones se han estudiado algunos elementos, utiliza…