Search results for "UNEMPLOYMENT"

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

2012

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…

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.

Persistent Employment Instability and Fertility Intentions

2014

Our paper adds to the growing literature on the measurement of employment instability and its consequences on fertility dynamics. Many of these studies disregard that the persistence (duration) in an unstable condition, more than the status itself, may have the most severe consequences on subsequent family choices. In this paper, we propose an index of persistence in employment instability (EINI) that synthesizes all the information inside the individual sequence of employment statuses in a single number accounting simultaneously for the duration, sequencing, intensity, and labour market circumstances. Then, we test its impact on short-term childbearing intentions of Italian couples separat…

La lotta alla disoccupazione e alla povertà nell’esperienza della Società Umanitaria di Milano (1893-1915)

2018

This paper focuses on the crucial role played by the Humanitarian Society of Milan in combating poverty and unemployment, mainly in the transition from a traditional concept of assistance, which was private and confessional, to a more modern idea of public assistance, inspired by secular, liberal and socialist reformism.

Postmodernity, insecurity and job loss Focus on the unemployed's suffering

2017

International audience; Objectives Recent research shows clear correlations between the subjective perception of job's insecurity and physical, mental and relational health. This article highlights the difficulties of workers , and particularly the impact of uncertainty and job loss on their self-esteem and psycho-physical well-being. The work presents and contextualizes the perception of job insecurity as an effect of postmodern society.Methods The research involved 60 subjects that have lost the jobs and received a 3 month intervention of active policies organized in groups focusing on empowerment and employability. At two times before and after group participants filled in Rosenberg Self…

Enhancing Joined-Up Government and Outcome-Based Performance Management through System Dynamics Modelling to Deal with Wicked Problems: the Case of S…

2015

The paper by Auping et al. (2015) focuses on the topic of societal ‘ageing’, that is, ‘a population process, caused by declining fertility and mortality rates, which manifests itself in the growing number of older persons in society’ (Huber, 2005). A broader definition frames societal ageing as a ‘demographic, structural, cultural and economic transformation resultant from the increase in the number and proportion of “older” people within society’ (Victor, 2005, p. 5). ‘Double societal ageing’ today characterizes most developed countries, which experience both an increase in the percentage of older people and in their life expectancy. In terms of public policy and finance, the relevance of …