scholarly journals Low Fertility in Canada: The Nordic Model in Quebec and the U.S. Model in Alberta

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderic Beaujot ◽  
Juyan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Work Orientation ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Fertility Trend ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Paid And Unpaid Work

Among the factors that are responsible for low fertility, the risks experienced by young people are particularly relevant. In that context, it is noteworthy that fertility is rising most in Alberta and Quebec, that is in provinces where young families have had the security of either good job opportunities or supportive social policy. The fertility trend in Canada has seen a low point of 1.51 in 2002, rising to a total fertility rate of 1.66 in 2007. The trends and differences are placed in the context of family and work questions, including the division of paid and unpaid work by gender. By marital status, family structure and work orientation, fertility is highest for women and men who are married, with no step children and intermediate work orientation. We summarize the changing policy context, proposing that social policy has become more supportive of families with young children, especially in Quebec but also in the rest of Canada.

Policy Report ~ Informe

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Gándara
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Academic Preparation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Mexican Schools ◽  
The U.S

Millions of young people receive part of their education in the U.S. and part in Mexico. However, neither the U.S. nor Mexican schools are prepared to educate students from “the other side.” This commonly results in loss of school credit, poor academic preparation and dropping out, which leads to very limited job opportunities and wasted human talent. This article suggests several ways in which this problem can be addressed. Millones de jóvenes reciben parte de su educación en los Estados Unidos y parte en México. Sin embargo, ni las escuelas de los Estados Unidos ni las de México están preparadas para educar a los estudiantes “del otro lado”. Esta situación comúnmente resulta en la pérdida de créditos escolares, la mala preparación académica y en el abandono de los estudios, lo que conduce a muy limitadas oportunidades de empleo y al desperdicio de talento humano. Este artículo sugiere varias maneras en las cuales se puede abordar este problema.

The role of small and medium projects in sustainable development according to Vision 2030: An applied study on Al-Quway'iyah Governorate: دور المشاريع الصغيرة والمتوسطة في التنمية المستدامة وفق رؤية 2030 دراسة تطبيقية على محافظة القويعية

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Munira Saeed Al-Qahtani
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Applied Study ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Creative Products ◽  
National Transformation ◽  
Study Participants

This research has aimed to highlight the role of small and medium projects in sustainable development according to the Kingdom's Vision 2030 by identifying the role and outcome of these projects in sustainable development. 150 sample sizes were taken to study within Al Quwaiiyah KSA, Descriptive analytical method has been used and constructed questionnaire. The total agreeing of the study participants reached (80.8%) for the items "the role of small and medium projects in sustainable development", the most item was a contribution to product development and the emergence of new services on the market, providing society with new creative products; The total agreeing of the study participants reached (73.4%) for the item of axis " The role of the General Authority for Small and Medium institutions and the National Transformation Program in sustainable development " the most item was granting the authority incentives and offers for owners of small and medium institutions; The total agreeing of the study participants reached (73.4%) for the item of axis "the role of Vision 2030 in supporting small and medium institutions in development" " the most item was Vision 2030 provides many job opportunities for young people in small and medium institutions. Most significant study recommendations are workers, employees in the field of small and medium projects should increase their capacity building to avoid shortage of experiences and encouraging national experiences from various projects to support and train beginners in the field of small and medium projects.

Religious nationalism, sectarianism and anti-semitism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Powell
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Religious Nationalism ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Cultural Conservatism

This chapter examines the efforts of the new Irish Free State to construct a socially integrated culture. This would be shaped into a socially conservative communitarian form inspired by Catholic corporatism, cultural nationalism, and rejection of modernity. Young people were targeted in the post-revolutionary climate of social and cultural conservatism. The education system was used to promote cultural segregation. Censorship and women's subordination dominated the cultural landscape, with reproductive rights and divorce suppressed in an increasingly patriarchal traditional society. The 1937 Constitution enshrined the new social policy principles in the basic law of the country. In the end, the state bureaucracy proved resistant to openly changing Irish governance.

Youth Sport Participation and Withdrawal: Is It Simply a Matter of FUN?

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda M. Petlichkoff
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Organized Sports ◽  
Youth Sport Participation ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Athletic Footwear

In 1990 the Athletic Footwear Association (AFA) (1) released a report entitled “American Youth and Sports Participation” that examined teenagers’ (ages 10-18 years) feelings about their sport involvement. This report was the culmination of an extensive study of more than 10,000 young people from 11 cities across the U.S. in which issues related to why teenagers participate, why they quit, and their feelings about winning were addressed.1 The results highlighted in the AFA report indicate that (a) participation in organized sports declines sharply as youngsters get older, (b) “fun” is the key reason for involvement and “lack of fun” is one of the primary reasons for discontinuing, (c) winning plays less of a role than most adults would think, and (d) not all athletes have the same motivations for their involvement.

scholarly journals Modelling of Social Policy and Initiatives under COVID-19: Rural NEET Youth Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
Giedrė Kvieskienė ◽  
Ilze Ivanova ◽  
Karmen Trasberg ◽  
Viktorija Stasytytė ◽  
Eglė Celiešienė
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Rural Regions

NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) youth rates in Europe are generally higher in rural regions than in urban areas and the share in rural regions is constantly increasing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, young people became even more vulnerable as they experienced social exclusion and mental health problems. The objective of this paper is to analyse NEET youth-related statistics in Europe and distinguish positive initiatives for young people in rural areas of the Baltic countries to encourage positive emotions and willingness to learn. Statistical analysis and case study methods were employed. Data on youth unemployment, NEET youth by age and gender, and poverty and social exclusion of young people, is analysed. Social policy initiatives in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, mainly from rural municipalities, are presented and discussed. This research determines the key issues related to NEET youth and proposes initiatives to overcome existing problems among young people. Such social initiatives aim to promote positive social emotions of youth, promote their inclusion in society, and foster regional sustainability.

Youth Negotiate Deportation

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Lauren Heidbrink
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Unaccompanied Children ◽  
Forced Return ◽  
The U.S

This chapter chronicles how young people experience deportation from the United States to Guatemala. It examines the policies and institutional practices that govern the removal of unaccompanied children and trace the ways in which young people and their families understand and navigate these policies and practices. Through multi-sited ethnographic research in the United States and Guatemala, the chapter reveals the various impacts of the forced “repatriation” of children, exacerbating the very conditions that spurred their migration and causing new interrelated uncertainties and related risks as “deportees.” As they are physically expelled from the United States, deported young people move out of U.S. legal systems. The effects of a forced “return” to their nations of origin produce new challenges such as feelings of isolation and vulnerability as well as danger, such that, in many ways, they continue to be in and moving through regimes of illegality. Demonstrating the long-term and geographically distant effects of the U.S. government’s deportation of children and youth, the chapter outlines the confining character of being out of a system, especially if once in it.

Improving Workforce Education Learning Outcomes

2018 ◽  
pp. 1368-1390
Author(s):  
Carsten Schmidtke
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Workforce Education ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The U.S

Despite numerous attempts over the past few decades to prepare the U.S. workforce for the increasing challenges of a global economy, educators hear the same complaints from industry about how difficult it is to find highly skilled workers. The growing need to have a higher level of education and different knowledge, skills, and attitudes than in the past brought on by globalization makes the task of preparing workers for tomorrow's workplace even more daunting. Whatever the reason for dropping out, many young people have clearly not responded to the attempt to educate them through full-time schooling, no matter how innovative the program. This chapter argues that more adolescents can be educated in a school system that no longer emphasizes full-time schooling but instead combines part-time school with part-time real-world work experience. To carry out such an approach, it may be time to expand our horizons in the search for solutions, and we can find some guidance in a rather unexpected place, the work of Soviet educator Anton Semyonovich Makarenko. Makarenko's success in training young people to become productive workers includes several concepts and methods that may be useful in improving today's workforce education system.

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