News tagged with labour market
Shortage of graduates will harm economy: UK report
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report launched this week shows that a shortage of graduates threatens the UK economy.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 28, 2012 |
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German IT sector in bullish mood at world's top tech fair
The German IT sector headed into the world's biggest high-tech fair in bullish mood, seeing record sales in 2012 ahead of the event's inauguration Monday by the leaders of Germany and Brazil.
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Young people face double penalty in a slow job market
The latest official unemployment figures show that unemployment among young people has soared to 22.3 per cent, higher than the recession of the 1990s, while the overall unemployment rate is nine per cent. New research from ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 29, 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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