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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"employment services"”.
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Analysis of the interrelationship of employment services and supported employment program outcomes
… the interrelationship of implemented employment services and selected program outcomes. Employment services were defined by the Degree of Implementation (DOI), a program evaluation instrument. Outcomes selected for this analysis were monthly wages earned, hours worked monthly, and …
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Getting the job done...!? (Professional) challenges on the frontline of Public Employment Services in Vienna and Milan
Individualised activation services have gained in importance in all European welfare states making lower level discretion an intrinsic feature of activation policies. Thus, the debate on activation policies and challenges to social citizenship has to go beyond formal policy and to take into account …
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The College-to-Work Transition Through Temporary Employment Services: A Case Study in an Information Technology Company
… working on information technology products and services in a major corporation were interviewed. A grounded theory approach was used to discover patterns in the data. This method allowed the researcher to inform the complexity of the college-to-work transition process. The researcher discovered …
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Factors that affect the employability of transition–age individuals with severe intellectual disabilities: rehabilitation providers’ perspectives
… their decisions about whether to provide employment services to a student with severe intellectual disabilities. Qualitative interviews with rehabilitation providers were used to explore these two areas. The most important skills identified by participants were social skills and skills …
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Outcomes of Supported Employment for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
… Schizoaffective Disorder face heavy barriers to employment, including the symptoms of the disorders themselves, medication side effects, and stigma and misconceptions about mental illness from coworkers and employers. Consistent employment has a strong positive impact on recovery prognosis for …
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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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“It’s a game, you've got to play the game”: Motivation and ‘Being Employable’ in Ontario Unemployment Supports
… employable. This occurs through provision of employment services, which reflect neoliberalization in funding policy documents. An ethnographic case study was conducted in one agency providing job-seeking assistance and services to unemployed Ontarians in a region experiencing high …
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Interpreting the 2015 amendments to the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 in light of the underlying purpose of South Africa's labour laws
… as non-standard workers (particularly temporary employment services) are concerned. If the purpose of labour law is established it will be easier for the legislator to focus the developments of the LRA in line with the desired purpose. Furthermore, an understanding of the purpose of labour law, …
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UAB „Guarana“ teikiamų paslaugų kokybės vertinimas /
… of customer service, the optimal quality of services ir one of the most important factors for the organization to operate effectively and competitively in the constantly changing business environment. Organizations creates a range of measures to improve the quality of services in order to …
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Employment specialists' competencies as predictors of employment outcomes.
Employment specialist competencies were examined as predictors of employment outcomes for consumers with severe mental illness participating in supported employment. Using a cross-sectional correlational design a variety of self-report and supervisor-rated performance measures were examined for …
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Can youth employment programmes work? A programme theory evaluation of the work and skills placement programme
… are unemployed and available to work. Youth employment programmes (YEPs) offer job-skills training and employment services and aim to promote youth's employment prospects. Despite their prevalence worldwide few YEPs have been successful in reducing youth unemployment. In the few cases of …
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Playing with the Absurdity of Welfare: Experiences of Irish Welfare Conditionality
… requirements and the privatisation of employment services, and its extension via its application to lone parents and others. This thesis utilises Foucault’s (2007) ‘governmentality’ to explicate how individuals are governed according to a ‘job-seeking’ rationality which gains a concrete …
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Surviving and thriving in work with mental health conditions – refocusing counselling psychology?
… into and remaining in work through Supported Employment, the figures around retention are discouraging. People with mental health conditions see employment as a sign of recovery and clinicians also support returning to work as an important step in development. Research has largely focused on …
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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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An exploratory study of the perceptions and experiences of homeless persons regarding service provision by Khulisa Solutions, a non-governmental organisation in the Western Cape
… by Khulisa Solutions, an NGO that provides services to homeless people in the Western Cape. To this end, using primarily a social development perspective, the study focused on five objectives: assessing the available services for homeless people related to shelter, food, employment and …
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The legal framework for the protection of employees of labour brokers in South Africa
… African legislation allows the use of temporary employment services ("labour brokers" in common parlance). Labour broking involves a triangular employment relationship between client, labour broker and worker. In terms of this arrangement the labour broker would employ a worker and supply him/her …
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Decoding minority student retention: An investigation of student experiences and institutional characteristics
… Distance Learning, or Weekend Classes, or Employment Services) are surprisingly associated with lower graduation rates. When most of these resources are combined with the effect of the percentage of low-income students, the negative effects are reduced somewhat but not eliminated. The …
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The impact of a self-management intervention on work-related behaviors in customized employment for individuals with severe disabilities
… disabilities face when seeking and maintaining employment (Chapter 1). A conceptual model based on a theory of control is used to conceptually model an on-the-job, customized intervention. Chapter 2 introduces a review of the literature on interventions that have been used in employment settings …
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The Butterfly Effect: The recommodification of labour and implications for further education and training.
… the existing thirty-three VECs. FÁS, the State Employment and Training Agency, has already undergone significant readjustment with community and employment services and staff transferred to the Department of Social Protection in 2012 to provide an enhanced employment and entitlements Service – …
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An analysis of the effect of the amendments to the taxation of foreign non-South African employment income
… were then at risk of being taxed twice on the employment income derived because of South Africa’s residence basis system of taxation. The section 10(1)(o)(ii) of the Income tax Act No. 58 of 1962 (“IT Act”) exemption was the relief mechanism for residents to prevent the possibility of double …
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