Essays about: "employment market needs"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 38 essays containing the words employment market needs.

  1. 21. Teaching assistant role in a school in Sweden. An ethnographic case study

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Efthimia Iatridou; [2016-07-06]
    Keywords : teaching assistant role; professional development; employment;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore the role of the teaching assistants in a school in Sweden by highlighting their deployment, employment and the needs of this role. This aim stems from the limited research on teaching assistants, the paucity in research that could not support decision making of the policy-makers and the belief that teaching assistants are under-used resource. READ MORE

  2. 22. From rice to sugar, from smallholder to businessman : a case study of outgrower schemes within the EcoEnergy Bagamoyo project, Tanzania

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Agnar Kjeller; [2016]
    Keywords : outgrower scheme; LSAI; rice; sugar cane; smallholders; cooperation; organisation; Tanzania;

    Abstract : Many governments in Africa envisage the potential to create rural employment, improve energy balances and strengthen their national economies by encouraging investment in large-scale agriculture. This trend is being intensified by global demand for alternative sources of energy and food, against a background of high oil prices and growing world population. READ MORE

  3. 23. Childcare and maternal employment in Europe : How childcare cost differences among European countries influence the labour force participation of mothers?

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Rozenn Juguet; Anna Clappier-Kervoël; [2016]
    Keywords : Labour supply;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to examine the influence of childcare costs on mother’s employment in European countries. Previous literature indicates that having a child represents a penalty for a woman’s career and integration into the labour market. An empirical analysis has been conducted using the OLS method and cross-national data. READ MORE

  4. 24. Beyond Access to Finance - A Micro- and macro level study of determinants of SME growth

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Ena Bilic; [2015-12-01]
    Keywords : SME; Almi; EU; Public financial support; access to finance; growth; employment;

    Abstract : The present study analyses the weaknesses and strengths of the “tools” used by governments to promote the Small- and Medium sized enterprise (SME) sectors as much as it aims to assess the policy responses to the evolving policy context by conducting a two-level study of both qualitative and quantitative characteristics using EU member states as well as Swedish SMEs as units of analysis. As the trade-and industry sector, in addition to scholars and policymakers, have recognized the importance of SMEs to employment and the domestic economy, attention has been focused on the capital market imperfections that have arisen as an effect of the financial crisis. READ MORE

  5. 25. Approaching Psychosocial Adaptation to a Post-Crisis Environment through Case Studies of Javanese Disaster Survivors and Refugees in Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Keith Mattingly; [2015]
    Keywords : Indonesia; Sweden; refugee; refugees; displaced; disaster; survivors; earthquake; volcano; Merapi; Chilean; psychosocial; adaptation; integration;

    Abstract : The psychosocial well-being of survivors of armed conflicts, forced displacement, and/or natural disasters is becoming more and more an integral component of holistic humanitarian response. Yet many organisations rely on broad, generalised manuals or guidelines which do not take into account the unique characteristics of societies and target populations. READ MORE