News tagged with labour market
Lifelong payoff for attentive kindergarten kids
Attentiveness in kindergarten accurately predicts the development of "work-oriented" skills in school children, according to a new study published by Dr. Linda Pagani, a professor and researcher at the University of Montreal ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 30, 2012 |
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West takes Internet freedom for granted: Google boss
The Internet proved the only true form of free communication during the Arab Spring and yet the West has come to take the freedom it confers for granted, Google boss Eric Schmidt said Friday.
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Mathematics confirm the chaos of the Spanish labor market
Unemployment time series in Spain behave in a chaotic way according to a study at the University of Seville. Such chaos demonstrates the complex and unpredictable nature of the Spanish labour market in the ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Swedish town eyes digital age with Arctic data centre
Perched near the Arctic Circle, the Swedish town of Luleaa hopes that a massive data centre for US social networking giant Facebook will launch the vibrant industrial region into the digital age as a European ...
Nov 27, 2011 |
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Teenagers who 'want to be famous' face poorer job prospects in later life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Teenagers who have unclear career aspirations, or whose ambitions are mismatched with their educational expectations spend more time in unemployment as adults and achieve lower wages according ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Many company closures await when elderly small business owners retire
The population of the EU is becoming older, and an ever smaller number of people have to provide for the ageing population. In Sweden, an already critical employment situation is exacerbated by the fact that 25% of managers ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Temporary agency workers face poor development potential
Staffing agency personnel who stay with a client company for a long time face a low development potential and feel that they are not increasing their perceived employability. The reason is that they get to try and learn new ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Vocational education review
The low-level vocational courses taken by many young people have little or no value in the labour market, suggests an independent review published today by the Department of Education. The report suggests funding should be ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Labour market specialists win Nobel Economics prize
Three labour market specialists, including one nominated but blocked for the US Federal Reserve board, won the 2010 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for analysing and helping tackle unemployment.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 11, 2010 |
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Big pay gap still remains between sexes
The pay gap between the sexes grows substantially over the first ten years of a woman’s career, new research has shown.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Health of future generations determined by childhood conditions
(PhysOrg.com) -- A growing body of economic research, published in the latest issue of Research in Public Policy, finds compelling evidence that the conditions to which children are exposed in their early and even foetal ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2010 |
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HIV-positive women are less likely to find work than men affected by the virus
Juan Oliva, a researcher at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) explores the relationship between the employment status of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive individuals and socioeconomic ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 03, 2010 |
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EU project to keep older professionals in the workforce
They are healthier than ever and highly competent, but tend to leave the labour market.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Couples are better able to cope with health shocks than singles: study
Marital status plays a significant role in how individuals cope economically with disability and health shocks, according to a working paper by University of British Columbia economists Giovanni Gallipoli and Laura Turner.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Deciding to have a baby is an easier step for public sector workers
Working for the public sector is good for fertility, according to new Economic and Social Research Council funded research at the University of Oxford. The study, which examined patterns of employment and childbearing decisions ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2009 |
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