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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Public Employment"”.
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Getting the job done...!? (Professional) challenges on the frontline of Public Employment Services in Vienna and Milan
… qualitative study undertaken at the frontline of Public Employment Services in the cities of Vienna (Austria) and Milan (Italy). The findings contribute to the debate on constraints and possibilities for activation work as a practice of citizenship in a field whose challenges are often neglected …
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The political logics of patronage : uses and abuses of government jobs in Brazil
… detailed understanding of how politicians target public employment and how that affects governance and public service delivery. This dissertation contributes to fill this gap. I identify five distinct rationales that drive politicians' use of government jobs: managing bureaucrats (to deliver …
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Essays on job search and retraining
… enrollment procedures, and expectations of reemployment chances. The paper reports the results of a low-cost intervention aimed at testing for the existence of misinformation about training costs and returns, and its impact on enrollment. Partnering with the French Public Employment Services …
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Equality and non-discrimination in the post-Yugoslav space: intersectionality under law in Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia
… ethnicity, gender and disability in the field of public employment in the post-Yugoslav space – in Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia. Further, it identifies challenges to addressing intersectional inequalities under law and whether and how these were shaped by the EU accession-related processes and …
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Employment of People with Disabilities in Georgia Local Governments: Identifying Barriers to Employment
… yet this group has one of the highest unemployment rates. Over the years, many surveys have been conducted to understand the reasons for the high unemployment rate facing this group. Nearly all these studies have concentrated on the private sector, indentifying various barriers to …
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The policy consequences of Garcetti v. Ceballos for personnel management in public schools
… segue into the heart of this study about public employment and the constitutional rights to free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment. The setting is public elementary and secondary schools of education (k-12), and the target audience is executive school administrators who serve as …
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Full Employment and Development: The Case of Indian Economy
… the feasibility and desirability of full employment and price stability in India via an Employer of Last resort program. After providing a brief historical background of the precolonial and colonial economy, the development of the Indian political economy since independence is analyzed in …
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Connecting the Nodes. How Social Capital Enhances Local Public Goods' Provision in Shantytowns.
… end with the distribution of food, medicine or public employment. In poor informal settlements, access to a sanitation system or clean drinking water is often mediated by local politicians.Therefore, the interaction between slum politics and the provision of Local Public Goods (LPG) is quite …
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Continuing professional education and its impact on the practices and careers of certified public accountants
… has on the careers or practices of certified public accountants licensed in Louisiana. A researcher designed survey incorporated both Likkert type scale responses and open ended questions. The survey was electronically administered to the membership of the Louisiana Society of Certified Public …
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PAID AND UNPAID LABOR ACROSS SECTORS, A THREE PAPER DISSERTATION
… that provide paid and unpaid labor in nonprofit, public and for-profit organizations. All three projects examine and expand existing research on how people engage with different sectors of the economy and the resulting implications this holds for society. To ground this case, the first article …
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Social protection in South Africa: a quest for an appropriate dispensation through a Minimum Employment Guarantee Scheme
This study has analysed the unemployment phenomenon globally and in particular to the South African situation and contends that a solution to the reduction of the intractable unemployment levels lies in the implementation of a Minimum Employment Guarantee Scheme. It has further analysed the South …
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The efficacy of Integrated Development Planning in promoting Developmental Local Government: A case of Collins Chabane Local Municipality, Limpopo Province
… has a serious issue with high youth unemployment, raising concerns about the future for young people. • Community participation is essential for successful IDP processes. It fosters engagement and ensures community needs are met. • External stakeholders help the Municipality develop and …
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Political branding in Botswana and Malawi: electoral competition and the welfare agenda, 1994-2014
… of presidential incumbents to demonstrate new public commitments to poverty reduction through shifts in rhetoric, symbolism, and policy emphasis. I argue that incumbents have pursued this "branding" with respect to poverty reduction in order to effectuate greater voter support for their …
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Negotiations and Curriculum-Instruction Components
… The study population was composed of the public school districts (K-12) in the state of Iowa that elected to negotiate contracts for the first time under the Public Employment Relations Act of 1974. To obtain points of view of leadership, data were collected from two persons who held …
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An Examination of the Effectiveness of Community-Based Organizations in Helping Low-Income Individuals Improve Their Use of Credit and Credit Scores as Part of a Wealth-Building Strategy
… loans and other forms of credit as well as employment and housing opportunities, insurance rates, and utility and rental deposits. As a result, credit plays an important role in individuals’ ability to weather financial crises, increase savings, and build wealth. Specifically, I assess the …
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Essays on human capital and economic development
… in the private sector. The model features a public sector that uses human capital to provide public goods that reduce costs in the private sector, increasing competition. However, large governments reduce market competition by reducing the supply of human capital in the private sector. The …
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Essays on job search behavior and labor market policies
Persistently high unemployment rates are a major threat to the social cohesion in many societies. To moderate the consequences of unemployment industrialized countries spend substantial shares of their GDP on labor market policies, while in recent years there has been a shift from passive measures, …
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Essays in public policy and social outcomes in Brazil
… poorer and less educated voters, also impacted public spending. Connecting all three essays is the fact that they all relate to Brazil and analyze the impact of public policies. Below are the title and individual abstracts for each of the three essays. Chapter 1: Crime and political effects of a …
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