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Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?
… paper examines the survival strategies of the unemployed using the balanced panel sample of the first three waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit [SALDRU], 2013c). We find that in response to unemployment and almost no unemployment …
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Coping with Unemployed Poverty: A Qualitative Study
… is a consideration of the social context of unemployed persons and the ways in which persons cope with their unemployment. This study sought to examine the experiences of unemployed persons in poverty, poverty being a social context frequently ignored in psychological literature. In addition, …
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Estimating Unemployed Entrants into the Labor Force
… by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to estimate unemployed entrants into the labor force. Unemployed entrants are individuals who enter the labor force for the first time, or after an absence of a year or more. Since these individuals lack current work experience, they are not eligible to receive …
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Attitudes toward work of employed and unemployed adults
… sample for this study consisted of employed and unemployed adults from the Richmond Metropolitan Area of Richmond, Virginia. A sample was selected that consisted of the 203 adults. Adults in the sample were later classified as either currently employed (full-time hourly industrial workers), …
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The experiences and livelihoods of unemployed graduates in Windhoek, Namibia
The experiences and livelihoods of unemployed graduates in Windhoek, Namibia. Graduate unemployment is a global phenomenon and is not only known to the nation of Namibia. There have been numerous research conducted on graduate unemployment worldwide but less research has been conducted on graduate …
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An investigation into the communication skills of unemployed young men
… is to explore language skills in a population of unemployed young men aged 18-24 years registered on the Employment Zone (EZ) programme in Wales. Three phases of data collection were conducted between 2007 and 2010. In Phase 1 quantitative data were gathered on language and non-verbal IQ using …
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EMPLOYED VS UNEMPLOYED METHAMPHETAMINE USERS: SPECIFIC IMPLICATIONS FOR CASE MANAGERS
Substance abuse and dependence has been a problem in the United States for over 100 years (Whitebread, 1995). In the past two decades the abuse and dependence of methamphetamine has increased and the rates have remained steady (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2004). …
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The coping patterns of the unemployed on the Cape Flats
… were utilised to identify a person as being unemployed: someone who is part of the economically active population by virtue of his or her age; but does not fully participate in the formal economic sector. It could be argued that such a definition of unemployment is far too broad, and would …
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The Study Circle. Participatory Action Research, With and For the Unemployed.
… study then integrates the subjective "voice" of unemployed people in the research process. It is an attempt to conduct research with and for the unemployed participants involved in the study, not on them. From a critical theory methodology perspective, it attempts to challenge the notion of …
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed - New evaluation approaches and insights
Start-up incentives targeted at unemployed individuals have become an important tool of the Active Labor Market Policy (ALMP) to fight unemployment in many countries in recent years. In contrast to traditional ALMP instruments like training measures, wage subsidies, or job creation schemes, which …
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Improving Professional Skills for Trainers Working with Unemployed Adult Learners in Austria
… changed) in Austria are employees who teach unemployed learners. Usually, they have advanced qualifications in other disciplines but not related to adult education. The Austrian labour policy focuses on retraining unemployed people to enter the labour market, a key concern that is given high …
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Evaluating a mathematics tutor programme for unemployed youth in a rural context
… three young adults working. Another predicament unemployed youth face is the poor mathematics education they rely on to prepare them for their future careers. This rationale motivated the implementation of a mathematics tutor programme at a rural school in Mpumalanga. Unemployed youth who passed …
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Exploring the lived experiences of seasonally unemployed parents in the Gouda area
… focuses on the lived experiences of seasonally unemployed parents in the Gouda area in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Unemployment in South Africa is a serious problem, as the unemployment rate of 25% (second quarter 2015), is very high (Statistics RSA, 2015). Since unemployment is one …
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Investigation into the positive outcomes of re-training long term unemployed people
… adopted has been: "People who have been unemployed for more than six months are likely to gain positive outcomes after undertaking short re-training programmes". The objectives were To establish if the students surveyed had a) gained employment, become self-employment, undertaken …
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An outcome evaluation of the Work 4 Progress Programme for unemployed youths
This evaluation assessed whether the Work 4 Progress programme, a youth employment programme implemented by Action Volunteers Africa achieved its intended short-term and long-term outcomes. The programme is designed to improve the employability of young people aged between 18 to 25 years who are …
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Factors influencing the reservation wage of unemployed workers in the South Otago region
… the reservation wage setting behaviour of unemployed workers. The hypotheses examined in this thesis are: 1. That income earned in the underground economy leads to an increase in the reservation wages of the unemployed; and 2. That the unemployment benefit also increases the reservation …
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Unemployed Younger Baby Boom Women's Career Decision-Making Experiences: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… understand the career decision-making process of unemployed American women who make up the younger cohort of the baby boom generation, namely those born between 1955 and 1964. Career decision making is a complex process involving a number of generational characteristics as well as personal and …
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Multivariate Explorations in Role Analysis: A Canadian Adult Education Center for the Unemployed
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