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Non-Formal Education in International Comparison: Patterns of Participation and Investment in Selected European Countries

open access: yesInternational Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2015
This investigation focuses on participation and related investment patterns in job related non-formal education (NFE) in selected European countries. Broadening previous research formats of NFE are distinguished by investment including financial and time
Katrin Kaufmann
doaj   +1 more source

Capitalist diversity and variety:variegation, the world market, compossibility and ecological dominance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article critiques institutionalist literature on varieties of capitalism and the more régulationist comparative capitalism approach. It elaborates the alternative concept of variegated capitalism and suggests that this can be studied fruitfully ...
Jessop, Bob
core   +1 more source

Comparative Analysis of National and Regional Models of the Silver Economy in the European Union [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The approach to analysing population ageing and its impacts on the economy has evolved in recent years. There is increasing interest in the development and use of products and services related to gerontechnology as well as other social innovations that ...
Klimczuk, Andrzej
core   +7 more sources

Varieties of Capitalism and labour market opportunities for the youth

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Government and Economics, 2020
In this study, we examine the extent to which socio-economic institutions shape young people’s perceptions of labour market opportunity structures and their employment attitudes (i.e. skills and retraining).
Felix Hörisch   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The future of capitalism: trends, scenarios and prospects for the future [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The article provides a framework for thinking about how the question of the future of capitalism might be addressed. One of the problems resides in the very definition of capitalism and of what its defining features consist of and whether we should be ...
Delanty, Gerard
core   +1 more source

Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source

CAPITALISM: ITS VARIETIES AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX

open access: yesEkonomika, 2014
Given the current economic crisis and increasing competition both for foreign investment and in international markets, we think that this economic analysis is timely and useful as the corruption level is a significant factor in the investment decision ...
Vaiva Šečkutė   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative capitalisms, ideational political economy and French post-dirigiste responses to the global financial crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article advances the case for the more systematic incorporation of ideational factors into comparative capitalisms analysis as a corrective to the rational choice proclivities of the Varieties of Capitalism approach.
Clift, Ben
core   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond and beneath the hierarchical market economy: global production and working-class conflict in Argentina's automobile industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper argues that the hierarchical market economy (HME) category does not provide an adequate starting point for addressing capitalist diversity in Latin America.
Boschi R   +14 more
core   +1 more source

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