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  Practices and Evolutions in Apprenticeship Training Policies in Europe

  Broughton A, Newton B, Lazazzara A, Stettes O, Jacquemet S, Isken J, Lehugeur T, Masingue B | Feb 2014 | Entreprise et Personnel

  In early 2014 unemployment among young people in the euro zone was at 24.1%. Greece, Spain, and Italy were among the countries most affected.The NEET statistics, which principally concern the proportions of young people not in employment,...

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  European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly - 2011, Issue 2

  Hurley J, Riso S, Salvatore L, Rinawi M, Broughton A | Jun 2011 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

  The EU economy continued to grow over the last quarter with more positive data in particular from core economies. Problems of sovereign debt management however persisted in several eurozone Member States and negative economic news from other developed economies tended to more than mitigate any positive momentum arising from the dynamism of the emerging market economies.

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  European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly - 2010, Issue 3

  Hurley J, Riso S, Salvatore L, Ford B, Miginis M, Broughton A | Oct 2010 | European Monitoring Centre on Change

  The pace of recovery following the 2008–9 economic crisis picked up somewhat throughout 2010 with the EU forecast to register 1.7% growth in 2010. Uncertainty however persisted on a number of fronts. Fears of a double dip recession in the US economy were reinforced by weak employment and growth data. Global growth appeared increasingly to depend on demand from developing countries, notably the BRIC bloc.

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  Employment and Skills: six critical priorities for the next government

  Meager N, Hillage J | Mar 2010 | Institute for Employment Studies

  With over 40 years’ experience of policy evaluation and labour market research in the UK and abroad, the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) gathered a wide range of evidence on the most important issues that needed to be tackled to raise employment and skills levels across the economy. IES identified half a dozen important policy issues to be first across the desks of the new ministers with briefs relating to education, skills, health, welfare and work, and some of the solutions needed to consider to help tackle these key issues.

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  Study on a comprehensive overview on traineeship arrangements in Member States

  Final Synthesis Report

  Hadjivassiliou K, Carta E, Higgins T, Rickard C, Ter-Minassian S (IES) Pesce F, Samek M, Barbieri D, Broglio D, Naaf S (IRS) Grollmann P, Weigel T, Wolfgarten T, Hensen K (BIBB) | Apr 2012 | European Commission

  The main objective of this study was to provide an overview of traineeship arrangements in all 27 Member States and to collect the most up-to-date information about different forms of traineeships across the EU.

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  Flexicurity: Actions at Company Level

  Broughton A, Biletta I, Vacas C | Jun 2012 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

  This report examines initiatives that could be considered as flexicurity measures, developed by companies to support women, young workers and older workers. The purpose is to show that even if the measures are introduced for business reasons and are not the result of a deliberate company flexicurity strategy, many may be considered as flexicurity measures as they contribute to improving both flexibility and security of vulnerable workers. On the basis of 16 company case studies in six EU Member States – the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and the United Kingdom – the study examines the motives of companies for developing these actions and the lessons learned.

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  Anticipating and Managing Restructuring: Ireland

  Broughton A | May 2010 | International Labour Organization

  This national background paper examines restructuring developments in Ireland. It gives an overview of the general economic and labour market context of the country, in particular against the background of the economic crisis. The report includes data on redundancies, and the challenges that the rising level of redundancies pose, especially in sectors such as construction, which has been particularly hard hit by the recent recession.

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  Disability and Skills in a Changing Economy

  Meager N, Higgins T | Aug 2011 | UK Commission for Equality and Skills (UKCES)

  The UK Commission developed a series of Briefing Papers with a focus on equality and skills in a changing economy. The aim was to inform and enable connected thinking about how to enable opportunity in the labour market through skills. Each paper provided commentary and analysis for an equality group or theme: disability and skills in a changing economy; gender and skills in a changing economy; low skills and social disadvantage in a changing economy; older people and skills in a changing economy and spatial inequality and skills in a changing economy.

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  The effectiveness and costs-benefits of apprenticeships: Results of the quantitative analysis

  Samek M, Comi S, Origo F, Torchio N, Speckesser S, Montalt J, | Sep 2013 | European Commission

  This report jointly researched by IES, Ecorys and IRS for the European Commission assesses the effectiveness of traineeship and apprenticeship schemes.

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  Pilot and feasibility study on the sustainability and effectiveness of results for European Social Fund participants using counterfactual impact evaluations

  Ciffolilli, A., De Castris, M., Kluve, J., Naldini, A., Paggiaro, A., Pompili, M., Capuano, S., Gray, H. and Broughton, A.  | Jul 2019 | European Commission Directorate-General for Employment Social Affairs and Inclusion

  The ‘Pilot and feasibility study on the sustainability and effectiveness of results for ESF participants using CIEs’ is aimed at assessing the feasibility of counterfactual impact evaluation (CIE) as an advantageous evaluation method of ESF...