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Students with a foreign background in Italian Initial Vocational Education and Training (IVET) and the access to Italian as Second Language

IAFOR Journal of Education, 2017
This paper is based on the results of a 2014–2015 quantitative survey on a sample of 1,840 foreign students and 1,835 Italian students, of which, 41% of the Italians and 35% of those of foreign origins interviewed were female. The overall age was between
Luisa Daniele
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Factors Associated with Occupational Disability Classification

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2018
To provide disabled people with the same opportunities to participate in working life as everyone else, certain measures, such as wage subsidies, compensating for a reduced work capacity, might be necessary.
Nikolay Angelov, Marcus Eliason
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Zero-hours contracts and labour market policy

Economic Policy, 2019
The evolving nature of atypical work arrangements is studied. A particular focus is placed on one such form of work relation: zero-hours contracts (ZHCs).
N. Datta, G. Giupponi, S. Machin
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Active labour market policies in Germany: do regional labour markets benefit? [PDF]

Applied Economics, 2018
ABSTRACTThis article examines on a regional level whether active labour market policies (ALMP) improve the matching process.
Wapler, Rüdiger, Werner, Daniel, Wolf, Katja   +2 more
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Three lessons from an effect evaluation of the Swedish Science and Technology for Children Programme

Nordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education, 2017
This paper discusses three methodological aspects on evaluations of effects of teacher support programmes on students’ scholastic achievements. The three aspects are: i) participants and non-participants are, in general, not comparable, which needs to be
Erik Mellander, Joakim Svärdh
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Extending working lives: How policies shape retirement and labour market participation of older workers

Social Policy & Administration, 2021
This study investigates how policies shape retirement and labour market participation of older workers and thus help extending working lives. It employs a time-series – cross-section analysis of the effects of macro-level institutional pull, push and ...
K. Kuitto, Jan Helmdag
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LIBERALISM VERSUS INTERVENTIONISM TO THE LABOUR MARKET. CASE OF POLAND AS A TRANSITION COUNTRY

Ekonomia i Prawo, 2010
An objective of a paper is to compare views of liberal economy and interventionism to a labour market and labour market policy. It is a ground for discussing a concept of labour market in a transition economy. Based on the literature main divergences and
Wacław Jarmołowicz, Katarzyna Szarzec
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Activation is not a panacea: active labour market policy, long-term unemployment and institutional complementarity

Journal of Social Policy, 2019
Evaluation studies of active labour market policy show different activation measures generate contradictory results. In the present study, we argue that these contradictory results are due to the fact that the outcomes of activation measures depend on ...
L. Benda, F. Koster, Romke van der Veen
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On the use of register data in educational science research

Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2017
Register data are described, in general and specific terms, by focusing on informational content from an educational science perspective. Arguments are provided on the ways in which educational scientists can benefit from register data.
Erik Mellander
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Determining the Effectiveness of ALMP on Youth in Serbia

Industrija, 2013
The focus of research in this paper is on analysing the effectiveness of the active labour market policies in one of the largest vulnerable groups in Serbian labour market - youth population.
Jovan Zubović, Ivan Nikolić
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