The aim of this article is to identify the main mechanisms leading to the NEET status in Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria. It does so by highlighting the differences amongst them and verifying how place of residence effectively affects the connected propensity to this status after having controlled for many personal characteristics through a series of…

Until today, thousands of young adults still dropout of school with no or low qualifications and experience difficulties in entering the labour market. The European Commission offers funding and opportunities for young adults to enter employability enhancing training, often organised under its flagship initiative 'The Youth Guarantee'. The aim of…

The Office of Workforce Development (OWD) in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, implemented Career Pathways, an innovative program designed to increase the local talent pool and help lower-skilled, unemployed, and underemployed individuals train for work in growing fields. RAND Corporation researchers evaluated…

Poverty is a complex cultural phenomenon that is very much in existence in contemporary post-industrial Britain. A young person's poverty-striken situation, in addition to their marginalised hierarchal position, shapes their repetitive life cycle comprising different but interrelated forms of marginality. The young people in this ethnographic…

In Australia, like many western countries, there has been a convergence of education policy around a set of utilitarian and economistic approaches to vocational education and training in schools. Such approaches are based on the assumption that there is a direct relationship between national economic growth, productivity and human capital…

This article briefly defines rightsizing the workforce and discusses the rightsizing dilemma in relation to the current economic downturn in the United States, its disparate effects on citizens, and implications for potential shifting roles for vocational psychologists. Next, the discussion will highlight disenfranchised or marginalized groups…

Seminars were conducted at Cornell University and Arizona State University to encourage manpower research among persons who had recently received doctorates in the social and behavioral sciences. Individuals who showed promise for making positive contributions to manpower research were selected from both large and small institutions of higher…

IN 1967 THE COUNTRY AVERTED AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND CONTINUED INSTEAD TO COMPLETE ITS 7TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR OF EXPANSION. ALTHOUGH GAINS FOR THE YEAR AS A WHOLE WERE SMALL IN COMPARISON WITH THE SHARP ADVANCES OF THE PREVIOUS 2 YEARS, BY YEAREND, THE FORCES OF GROWTH WERE ABUNDANTLY EVIDENT AND POINTED TO A RENEWAL OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE EMPLOYMENT…

Stressing the problems of American inner cities, this volume reviews major manpower problems in their urban setting, various Federal training and educational approaches to maximizing the use of manpower, and the directions that these programs may take during the 1970s. Chapter 1 reviews the general economic conditions of American cities.…

THIS FORD FOUNDATION SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECT CONCENTRATED ON EVALUATING AND REPORTING ON PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED UNDER THE AREA REDEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1961 TO RETRAIN AND RELOCATE UNEMPLOYED WORKERS IN FOUR DEPRESSED AREAS OF WEST VIRGINIA. RESEARCHERS, SCHOLARS, AND RESOURCE PERSONS WERE INVOLVED IN CONDUCTING THE WEST VIRGINIA PHASE OF THE PROJECT…

A conference was held to discuss the problems of the hard-core unemployed. The purpose of the conference was to spread the experience of the five Human Resources Development programs with special emphasis on Houston's success in the Outreach phase and to stimulate representatives from 12 southern states to promote HRD programs in their areas.…

To provide full opportunity for all workers, efforts are underway to reform manpower programs and improve their effectiveness, and to develop a broader national manpower policy integrated into the overall economic policy for achieving the nation's economic and social objectives. This 10th annual report describes manpower problems and issues and…

THE NEW DIRECTIONS WERE THE OUTGROWTH OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDING RISING EMPLOYMENT, EMERGING LABOR SHORTAGES, AND CONTINUED HARD CORE UNEMPLOYMENT. A DISTINGUISHING FEATURE OF 1966 WAS THE EXTENT TO WHICH IDEAS WERE BROUGHT FROM THE PLANNING OR TESTING STAGE TO INNOVATIVE ACTION BY MANY AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT. THE OVERRIDING CONCERN IN…

The study examines British public assistance (Supplementary Benefits) and other income maintenance programs for employables. These are viewed as one policy set to analyze their incentives and disincentives to see if the incentive structure is consonant with a goal of promoting work. Sanctions applied to recipients are also analyzed. Relatively…