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From:OECD Economic Surveys - Finland (Vol. 2008, Issue 6)Accessing foreign workers is one way in which Finland can tackle the challenge of a rapidly declining labour force and address emerging skill shortages. While successive governments have proposed tapping into the...
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From:OECD Economic Surveys - Australia (Vol. 2008, Issue 18)Australia faces the challenge of increasing labour supply to sustain growth in view of rising skill shortages and population ageing. Priority should be given to improving incentives to work for groups with the greatest...
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From:OECD Economic Surveys - United Kingdom (Vol. 2009)While the immediate imperative is to tackle the financial crisis and to steer the economy through the current downturn, there are also a number of longer-term challenges that need to be addressed to foster a robust and...
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From:OECD Economic Surveys - United Kingdom (Vol. 2005)Lack of skills in large parts of the workforce is a key factor holding back the capacity to absorb innovations and adapt work processes to take advantage of new technologies. While the supply of university graduates...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his article "Modernizing the Colonial Labor Subject in India" Valerian DeSousa discusses how the colonial project in India sought to counter the labor movement's evolving anti-colonial consciousness through law, the...
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From:Technical Training (Vol. 10, Issue 2)Tom Barron is editor of Technical Training. The federal skill standards initiative is moving into a new phase as industry coalitions take the lead in developing standards for all manner of occupations. In the...
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From:National Institute Economic Review (Issue 136) Peer-ReviewedFINANCING TRAINING IN BRITAIN (1) 1. Introduction There are relatively fewer workers with intermediate vocational qualifications in Britain than in Germany, France and other major competitors. (Prais, 1981;...
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From:Quarterly Journal of Economics (Vol. 109, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper investigates the shift in demand away from unskilled and toward skilled labor in U.S. manufacturing over the 1980s. Production labor-saving technological change is the chief explanation for this shift. That...
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From:Quality (Vol. 54, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC -- The International Society of Automation and its affiliate association, the Automation Federation, celebrated Manufacturing Day, highlighting the importance of manufacturing to the world's...
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From:American-Eurasian Journal of Sustainable AgriculturePeer-ReviewedThe objective of this research was to identify the need for skilled human resources and technology required for the development of cocoa in Southeast Sulawesi, to develop the potency of cocoa seed by increasing its...
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From:Economic Inquiry (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe analyze competition for experienced workers among wage-setting firms. The firms can design poaching offers with higher wages to workers who switch from rivals relative to wages paid to their own existing employees....
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 5, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedDUBLIN, IRELAND, was the venue for this year's International Council of Nurses' (ICN) Workforce Forum meeting in September. Representatives of nursing organisations from New Zealand, Japan, Ireland, the United Kingdom...
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From:Urban Studies ResearchPeer-ReviewedRecent research has elucidated the role of talents to explain urban growth differences but it remains to be shown whether urban dynamics, such as human capital and a mixed local population, can be linked to intraurban...
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From:Quality (Vol. 58, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedDeveloped nations, though equipped with industrial and educational infrastructures, face a current and increasing shortage of qualified, skilled and motivated workers. American manufacturers and smaller operations know...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Students at Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) are introduced to ethics and professionalism using the inter-professional education (IPE) model. Ethics and professionalism should be...
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From:Mechanical Engineering-CIME (Vol. 132, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAMIDST THE NATIONALISTIC TONE of a recent study commissioned by the Alliance for American Manufacturing is an important underlying theme that transcends national borders. That is, the need to develop a skilled technical...
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From:Journal of Economic Issues (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedUnder capitalism there is a potential for increasing socioeconomic complexity and greater specialization of skills. (1) One implication is that there is a potential for increasing inequalities of wealth, income, and...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"Plug and play" is a term often applied to electronic devices, especially computers and video games. It is less often used to describe large, expensive and complex facilities. And few facilities are larger, costlier or...
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From:Canadian Review of Sociology (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTask shifting, which involves the transfer of care work from regulated health-care professionals to home care workers (HCWs), is a strategy to ensure the efficient delivery of home care services in Canada and...
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From:Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy (Vol. 19) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction I have been going over and over in my head about what to say, to my children, the morning after. They were a part of the movement, in marches, rallies, passing out literature. Before I had a chance to...