scholarly journals Young women’s (mother’s) needs and expectations regarding the development of professional competences – A comparative analysis of research results from Poland, Lithuania, Spain and Cyprus

2022 ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Emilia Garncarek ◽  
Agata Matuszewska-Kubicz
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Young Women ◽  
External Environment ◽  
International Project ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Over the last two decades, there has been a significant improvement in the participation of women in education and the labour market in the European Union. Nevertheless, there are still many challenges to improving the situation of women. The excessive burden of household duties is a major barrier to the educational and professional activity of women, especially young women with small children. Apart from the inability to balance work and personal life, other factors limiting women’s professional activity include the mismatch between their education and the challenges of the modern labour market. Although the majority of people with higher education are women, when planning their careers, they tend to choose less attractive courses of study which are not linked to the professions of the future. The text presents the results of an analysis of research on the needs and expectations of young women (mothers) regarding the development of professional competences. The results show in which types of activities raising competences the surveyed women participate; how they evaluate the effectiveness of activities raising their competences in the professional area; what factors influence the decision of women to participate in the selected form of training; what are the attitudes of the external environment of the surveyed women towards their participation in training; what problems the surveyed women encounter in connection with participation in training raising their professional competences. The focus was on similarities and differences in statements of young women (mothers) from Poland, Lithuania, Spain and Cyprus who participating in the international project Mommypreneurs.

THE CREATION OF NEW JOBS AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING

2020 ◽  
Vol 552 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Stanisława Golinowska
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Mobility Skills ◽  
New Jobs

The article was created not only as a summary of the international conference organized under the auspices of the Minister of Finance Leszek Balcerowicz and the Minister of Labour Longin Komołowski on October 23–24, 1998 in Warsaw. It also contains comments and reflections of the author, who was a co-organizer and active participant of this conference. The thematic covers the basic issues of labour market development in the context of economic problems of the passing decade of the Polish transformation. The topics discussed concerned problems such as: labour market flexibility, employee mobility, skills of labour resources and education challenges. The debate also concerned: motivation instruments including payroll (minimum wage) and social benefits policies, that favour of restructuring, increase in the importance of regional policy and local government, and directions of transformation of two special branches of the Polish economic structure: mining and agriculture. It is worth assessing how, after twenty years, the same themes look in a completely different context: the country’s entry into the orbit of accelerated globalization, the effects of participation in the European Union, the radically changed situation on the labour market (instead of unemployment – low supply of labour resources and low professional activity) and a different paradigm for socio-economic development; increase of the economic role of the state and political regulations in the public policies

scholarly journals Young Women Speak Out, East and West

2016 ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Alia Moubayed
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Youth Organization ◽  
Civil Society Participation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Exhaustive List

In the context of the Euro-Arab Dialogue begun in Malta last year, a Euro-Arab Women's Seminar was held in Beirut between July 26 and 30, 1995. Jointly organized by the Progressive Youth Organization, representing the Arab Youth League, and the Youth Forum of the European Union, the seminar gathered young European and Arab Women, each representative of youth or women's association in their respective countries. The women were eager to voice their opinions and discuss their concerns forty days before the Beijing Conference, the outcome of which will set the framework for women's activities and struggles for the next decade. The dialogue covered an exhaustive list of women-related topics, such as the participation of yotmg womenin education and their situation in the labor market; sexuality and health; women in civil society (participation of women in politics, legal rights); and the influence of religion on women's roles in society.

scholarly journals Romanians’ attitudes towards mobility for work from a gendered perspective

10.26458/1443 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Andra-Bertha SĂNDULEASA
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Third World ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Migration ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Labour Market Mobility

Employment strategies in the European Union laid stress on the importance and on the need to increase the participation of women on labour market. On the other hand, evidence shows that international migration has been feminised in Europe and that, in the past decades, geopolitical conflicts and economic restructuring in Eastern Europe and the Third World generated new patterns of female migration. This article explores Romanians’ attitudes towards mobility for work from a gendered perspective. Based on the Special Euro-barometer 337 – Geographical and labour market mobility – conducted in 2009 on behalf of the European Commission, the main findings of the article are that gender is an important aspect in analysing people’s economic behaviour. The research argues that in order to increase women’s participation on labour market, a deeper understanding of the situation of females on labour market is required.

Qualitative Survey of Graduate Practice — An Intervention for Young Unemployed Jobseekers in Slovakia

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 910-918
Author(s):  
Lucia Svabova ◽  
◽  
Vladimir Borik ◽  
Marek Durica ◽  
Johanna Grudin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
The European Union ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Potential Employer ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Active Labour

Active labour market policy interventions are vide used tool of a government against unemployment. One of the most frequently used intervention for young jobseekers in Slovakia is a Contribution for Graduate practice. This measure is intended for young unemployed jobseekers as a tool of gaining first contact with the open labour market and with potential employer and gaining first work experiences. In this paper we present a qualitative survey of Graduate practice that was made as an ex-post evaluation of this intervention by its participants in Slovakia. This evaluation of the intervention was carried out at the request of the European Commission not only in Slovakia but also in several countries of the European Union. The qualitative evaluation, as a part of this rigorous intervention evaluation, provides feedback from the real intervention participants and brings some suggestions to improve the parameters and conditions of Graduate practice intervention and its realization. These improvements are useful not only for participants themselves, for companies in which young graduates are employed but also for the state budget in the form of returned or saved invested funds because of better functioning of the intervention. Based on the results of this feedback from its real participants, some parameters, conditions and details of the Graduate practice intervention have been changed and added in Slovakia.

Tertiary Educated Muslim Women's Work Decision

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Peck Leong Tan ◽  
Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusair ◽  
Norlida Abdul Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
The Family ◽  
Labour Participation

The participation of women in the labour force has been steadily rising over the years, especially with tremendous human capital investment in educating more women at tertiary levels. However, the tertiary educated women labour participation remains low, particularly among Muslim women. Therefore, this paper explores how tertiary educated Muslim women make their decision to work. This study surveyed 139 tertiary educated women and found their decisions to work are affected by their families’ needs and/or responsibilities, and may not be due to their lives’ goals and dreams. The majority of them work for the sake of money and hence will work if offered jobs meet their expectations in term of salary and position. Furthermore, they will leave the workforce if they need to fulfil their responsibilities at home. Therefore, to retain or to encourage more women especially those with high qualifications to be in the labour market, stakeholders must provide family-friendly jobs and suitable work environment such as flexible working arrangements. More importantly, stakeholders must be able to convince the family members of tertiary educated women to release them to the labour market.   

Changing labour market flexibility in the European union

2002 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Pentecost ◽  
John G. Sessions
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility

Investment Services Regulation in Germany and Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-516
Author(s):  
Harald Baum ◽  
Toshiaki Yamanaka
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Enforcement ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
Legal Situation ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Investment Advice

Abstract This article studies the protection of retail and professional investors when financial products are sold or when investment advice is given. To this end, it clarifies the similarities and differences in the legal setting governing investment services firms in Germany and Japan, with a particular focus on a) the persons to be protected, b) information to be provided and c) private enforcement. Although regulatory structures are largely divergent in these two jurisdictions, the legal situation converges in several important points in relation to lawmaking in the European Union and the United States. Those convergences appear informative for the development of laws in jurisdictions other than Germany and Japan.

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