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Chronic Unemployment: A New Concept for Capturing Weak Labor Market Attachment
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesIn this article, we develop, unfold, and explore the concept of ‘chronic unemployment’ to capture a segment that is weakly attached to the labor market because of repeated spells of unemployment, interrupted only by shorter intervals of temporary ...
Simo Aho +4 more
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Employers and the Implementation of Active Labor Market Policies
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Active labor market policies (ALMPs) are an important instrument for governments in dealing with the new challenges of globalization, flexibilization, and individualization of labor markets.
Thomas Bredgaard, Jon Lystlund Halkjær
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Helping People and Places Move Out of Poverty: Progress and Learning 2010 [PDF]
, 2011 Presents a mid-course review of a ten-year program to help the poor build economic security in the Southeast. Examines impact, lessons learned, factors that facilitated or impeded progress, how resources were leveraged, changing contexts, and next ...
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Reinterpreting the Historicity of the Nordic Model
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 In conventional images of the so-called Nordic model, the strong state is opposed to markets or civil society and co-operation is opposed to conflict.
Pauli Kettunen
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Social Capital, Creative Destruction and Economic Growth [PDF]
A distinction between individual and communal aspects of social capital is introduced, and their roles in production explored. Contacts are required to transact.
Dirk J. Bezemer +2 more
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The Role of the Food & Beverage Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity [PDF]
, 2007 The food and beverage industry has a unique role in expanding economic opportunity because it is universal to human life and health. The industry operates at multiple levels of society where billions of people grow, transform, and sell food, particularly
Marc Pfitzer, Ramya Krishnaswamy
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Knowledge Claims on Municipalities in the Swedish Labor Market Policy
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesActivation is crucial for beating unemployment for those with high thresholds for entering the labor market. The municipalities in Sweden have become an important factor in the activation.
Rickard Ulmestig
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 This article uses a political economy approach and explores the nexus between labor migration and the welfare state and how its specificities have been viewed and presented by organized interests of employers and trade unions in Swedish labor migration ...
Jesper Johansson
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Wages, Demographics, and Gender: Register Analysis among Doctorate Holders in Iceland
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesThe percentage of female doctorate holders has steadily increased in the Western world. Despite this trend, there is a scarcity of studies addressing gender disparities among doctorate holders, within and outside academia.
Maya Staub +2 more
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Markets Institutions as Communicating Vessels Deregulation and Changes between Economic Coordination Principles [PDF]
economic policy; competition policy; institutions ...
Frans van Waarden
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