Youth Employability in WB Countries

2016 ◽  
pp. 315-326
Author(s):  
Jovan Zubovic ◽  
Dejana M. Pavlovic
Keyword(s):  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Transitional Countries

Transition in WB countries was supposed to enable the establishment of a better economic system. However, not all transitional countries have been conducting appropriate follow-up activities during their transition process. Success of transition depended on the country's internal factors and on their pre-transition economic situation? In all WB countries privatization led to high unemployment rates, low GDP growth and poor living standards especially for youth. At the same time, the transition has had positive effects in other transition countries like the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia etc. The aim of this paper is to research a position of the youth in WB transition countries including Serbia, Montenegro, B&H, and Macedonia. The paper will follow the changes in youth unemployment in the period 2000 to 2014 in WB, other transition and EU15 countries. Comparisons of the achieved youth unemployment levels will give the opportunity to determine which the good practices are used in other developed countries that have resulted with significantly lower youth unemployment rates.

Small business in Russia—factors that slowed its development: an analysis

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Kihlgren
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Natural Question ◽  
The Czech Republic

In Russia the growth of small business has been much slower compared with the leading transition countries (Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary). In Poland, and to a lesser degree in the Czech Republic and Hungary, this sector has been the engine of the economic recovery. A natural question is why Russia differs. Apart from the fact that in contrast to these countries Russia does not have an entrepreneurial tradition and has experienced communist rule longer what is especially distinctive about Russia has been the strong influence of interest groups during the transition process which favoured the allocation of entrepreneurship to largely unproductive activities.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Maya Lambovska ◽  
Boguslava Sardinha ◽  
Jaroslav Belas, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Young People ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
The Eu

Youth unemployment is a problem in each member country of the European Union (EU). The EU seeks to alleviate this problem by implementing various programs to support young people in finding and keeping a job, thus contributing to economic growth. In 2020, the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The countries have introduced many strict measures to prevent its spread, but they have caused a significant increase in unemployment, including among young people, and thus harmed economic growth. In this paper, we analyze the unemployment of people under the age of twenty-five in the EU. We also point out how unemployment rates have increased in individual countries. This problem concerns not only countries where the youth unemployment rate had been high already, such as Greece, Spain, and Italy, but also countries with previously lower rates, for example, the Czech Republic, Netherland, Poland, and Slovenia. In the latter group of countries, the youth unemployment rate has doubled in some cases due to anti-pandemic measures. We found that the most affected countries in this regard are the aforementioned Czech Republic, where the unemployment rate at the end of 2020 rose to 2.19 times above the level at the end of 2019, and Estonia, where year-over-year youth unemployment rose by a factor of 2.5. However, unfavorable developments occurred also in Lithuania, Latvia, and Ireland. According to our results, in 2020, youth unemployment increased the least in Hungary, Italy, and Belgium. In general, however, as the situation is now much more urgent, measures to alleviate this problem need to be put in place in each country to help young people find employment and, thus, stimulate economic growth.

Modelling youth entrepreneurship intentions: A ten-year research

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 617-638
Author(s):  
Dejan Djordjevic ◽  
Dragan Cockalo ◽  
Srdjan Bogetic ◽  
Mihalj Bakator
Keyword(s):  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Entrepreneurial Climate ◽  
Youth Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship can have a crucial role in economic development. Youth entrepreneurship has even a greater role in economic growth. The underlying issues are the high youth unemployment rates in developing but also in developed countries as well. Improving the entrepreneurial climate and providing a “fertile” ground for venture creation is almost an imperative for increasing the number of young entrepreneurs and the number of entrepreneurs overall. In this paper, the results of an extensive, cross-sectional study conducted over ten-years, are presented. The study includes 5670 respondents - high school and university students from Serbia. The goal was to determine the predictors of youth entrepreneurship intentions in the domain of venture creation.

Income Dynamics and Stability in the Transition Process

2002 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-442
Author(s):  
Jens Hölscher ◽  
Ray Bachan
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Lorenz Curves ◽  
Partial Analysis

Income distribution is a widely neglected subject in applied macroeconomics. This paper looks at the current state of art, which can be summarised as the “Transatlantic Consensus”explaining inequality through a partial analysis approach with changes on the labour market at its core. The potential interrelationship between inequality and growth is particularly important for transition countries, because according to common knowledge in this case the change of regime went along with rising inequality and declining income in the initial phase. The Czech case - the Czech Republic being the most egalitarian country among the former socialist economies - is even more interesting, because here income distribution remained relatively stable before and throughout the transition period. This result is illustrated by Lorenz curves. The analysis of so-far unpublished empirical data indicates that there is no need for active distribution policy in the Czech Republic. This result might not hold for other transition countries, which find themselves at the initial part of the Kuznets curve, but on a lower level of income.

scholarly journals Youth Labour Flows and Unemployment in Great Recession: Comparing Spain and the Czech Republic

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Flek ◽  
Martina Mysíková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Flow Analysis ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Unemployment Policy ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Opposite Tendency ◽  
Youth Labour

Abstract Using Spain and the Czech Republic as examples of two EU countries with different labour market performance, we apply a gross flow analysis based on EU-SILC longitudinal data. We find that while in Spain the increases in youth unemployment are driven mostly by young people who lose their jobs, in the Czech Republic, this is mainly due to new labour market entrants who failed to find a job. The analysis of flow transition rates suggests that youth labour markets with enormously high unemployment rates have not failed in all relevant respects. Their development seems to be hindered predominantly by high risk of job losses and diminishing employment prospects of the unemployed, rather than by impeded transitions from inactivity to employment. In countries with lower youth unemployment rates, unemployment policy agenda appears to be challenged by quite the opposite tendency

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF STATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN TRANSITION CONDITIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1549-1552
Author(s):  
Anita Cucoviċ
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Corporate Strategies ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
Complete Failure

One of the most significant socio-economic challenges at the beginning of the new millennium has been the transformation of post-socialist systems into systems that can meet the challenges of a predominantly capitalist world economy.Multinational companies become directly involved in this transition process when acquiring in one of the former socialist economies, especially when engaging in local businesses. They are confronted with a particular institutional environment that pre-determines strategic opportunities for the enterprise and limits the application of Western firms business practices and organizational concepts. Thus, the strategies observed in transition countries are different from those applied in successful and developed economies, and strategies that prove successful in one country may be a complete failure in another. Corporate strategies in transition countries and other emerging markets can only be explained by including a specific institutional context in the analysis. This creates challenges that are fundamentally different from the experience of managers of developed countries and firms with foreign business partners. a particular challenge is the acquisition and subsequent integration of state-owned enterprises.

Clinical Success Using the Audio-Visual Feedback Training for Cluttering

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1589-1594
Author(s):  
Yvonne van Zaalen ◽  
Isabella Reichel
Keyword(s):  
Visual Feedback ◽  
Clinical Success ◽  
Pause Duration ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Feedback Training ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Speech Monitoring ◽  
Adolescents And Adults

Purpose Among the best strategies to address inadequate speech monitoring skills and other parameters of communication in people with cluttering (PWC) is the relatively new but very promising auditory–visual feedback (AVF) training ( van Zaalen & Reichel, 2015 ). This study examines the effects of AVF training on articulatory accuracy, pause duration, frequency, and type of disfluencies of PWC, as well as on the emotional and cognitive aspects that may be present in clients with this communication disorder ( Reichel, 2010 ; van Zaalen & Reichel, 2015 ). Methods In this study, 12 male adolescents and adults—6 with phonological and 6 with syntactic cluttering—were provided with weekly AVF training for 12 weeks, with a 3-month follow-up. Data was gathered on baseline (T0), Week 6 (T1), Week 12 (T2), and after follow-up (T3). Spontaneous speech was recorded and analyzed by using digital audio-recording and speech analysis software known as Praat ( Boersma & Weenink, 2017 ). Results The results of this study indicated that PWC demonstrated significant improvements in articulatory rate measurements and in pause duration following the AVF training. In addition, the PWC in the study reported positive effects on their ability to retell a story and to speak in more complete sentences. PWC felt better about formulating their ideas and were more satisfied with their interactions with people around them. Conclusions The AVF training was found to be an effective approach for improving monitoring skills of PWC with both quantitative and qualitative benefits in the behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and social domains of communication.

scholarly journals Empirical study of spatial differentiation of youth unemployment in Russia

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Blinova ◽  
Vladimir Markov ◽  
Viktor Rusanovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Behavioural Response ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Youth Labour Market ◽  
Interregional Differentiation

The purpose of the study is to conduct a statistical analysis and to perform a quantitative assessment of the degree and the dynamics of the interregional differences in youth unemployment in Russia between 2005 and 2013. We decompose the interregional differentiation into “within-group” and “between-group” differences. We also analyse the dynamics of the within-group and between-group differences and estimate their contribution to changes in the interregional differentiation of youth unemployment. Additionally, we estimate the degree and the dynamics of the interregional differences of the youth labour market in Russia in times of crisis and recovery growth. The results show a reduction in the interregional differences in unemployment rates between 2005 and 2008, while in 2009–2013, the interregional differentiation of the labour market increased. We found that the socio-economic effects of youth unemployment, as well as the behavioural response to economic shocks in the age groups of 15–19 and 20–29 years were significantly different.

scholarly journals The importance of maternal pregnancy vitamin D for offspring bone health: learnings from the MAVIDOS trial

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 1759720X2110069
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Moon ◽  
Elizabeth M. Curtis ◽  
Stephen J. Woolford ◽  
Shanze Ashai ◽  
Cyrus Cooper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin D ◽  
Bone Development ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Vitamin D Supplementation ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Positive Effects

Optimisation of skeletal mineralisation in childhood is important to reduce childhood fracture and the long-term risk of osteoporosis and fracture in later life. One approach to achieving this is antenatal vitamin D supplementation. The Maternal Vitamin D Osteoporosis Study is a randomised placebo-controlled trial, the aim of which was to assess the effect of antenatal vitamin D supplementation (1000 IU/day cholecalciferol) on offspring bone mass at birth. The study has since extended the follow up into childhood and diversified to assess demographic, lifestyle and genetic factors that determine the biochemical response to antenatal vitamin D supplementation, and to understand the mechanisms underpinning the effects of vitamin D supplementation on offspring bone development, including epigenetics. The demonstration of positive effects of maternal pregnancy vitamin D supplementation on offspring bone development and the delineation of underlying biological mechanisms inform clinical care and future public-health policies.

scholarly journals Mitral valve prolapse - it"s possible to stratify prognosis in these patients?

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P Silverio Antonio ◽  
T Rodrigues ◽  
R Santos ◽  
A Nunes-Ferreira ◽  
N Cunha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mitral Valve ◽  
Mitral Valve Prolapse ◽  
Nyha Class ◽  
Univariate Analysis ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Maximum Distance ◽  
Conduction Delay ◽  
Systolic Pulmonary Artery Pressure ◽  
Lv Mass

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Introduction Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is one of the most frequent causes of mitral valve disease in developed countries, traditionally with a benign prognosis, however some patients develop arrythmias and significant mitral regurgitation (MR) with need of intervention. Herein our purpose was to establish clinical, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic predictors of arrythmias, mitral valve intervention (MVI) and hospitalization in MVP patients to better characterize the prognosis in these patients. Methods  Single-center retrospective study of consecutive patients with MVP documented in transthoracic echocardiogram between January 2014 and October 2019. MVP was defined as systolic displacement of the mitral leaflet into the left atrium ≥ 2 mm from the mitral annular plane. Demographic, clinical, echocardiographic, electrocardiographic data were collected as well as adverse events at follow-up. The results were obtained using Chi-square and Student-t tests; predictors were found with logistic regression. Results  247 patients were included (mean age 62.9 ± 18 years, 61% males), most with MVP involving the posterior leaflet (48.6%). 40% were symptomatic, 47.4% had more than moderate MR, and 25% had interventricular conduction delay in the ECG. During a mean follow-up of 30 ± 19 months, 38% had arrythmias, 27.1% needed mitral valve intervention (95% surgery and 5% percutaneous), 27.1% had atrial fibrillation (AF), 3.4% had ventricular arrythmias, 19.2% had ventricular premature beats, 13.3% had hospital admission for cardiovascular cause and 8.5% (n = 21) died. 9.3% of the patients had mitral annulus disjunction (MAD). Palpitations (p = 0.018), AF (p < 0.001), significant MR (p < 0.001), higher NYHA class (p = 0.016), systolic pulmonary artery pressure (SPAP) (p < 0.001), LV mass (p < 0.001), QTc (p = 0.01) and MAD maximum distance (p = 0.02) associated with MVI. MAD maximum distance value presented an excellent capacity to predict the MVI (AUC 0.85 p = 0.019); the best cut-off was 11,5 mm (Sens = 80%; Spec = 83%). AF was a predictor of hospitalization in univariate analysis (OR = 2.57, CI95% 1.15-5.75, p = 0.022). Regarding arrhythmic events, we found association with aortic root dilatation (p = 0.032), NYHA III-IV (p = 0.013), age and LV mass (both with p < 0.001). In multivariate analysis, LV mass (OR = 1.02, CI95% 1.005-1.027, p = 0.005) and age (OR = 1.038, CI95% 1.004-1.053, p = 0.021) were independent predictors of arrythmias. In this sample, MAD was not associated with arrythmias. Conclusion  Opposing to previous studies in our population, MAD was not associated with arrythmias but had an excellent capacity to predict MVI. Age and LV hypertrophy were independent predictors of arrythmias in our patients. Larger studies are needed to better stratify patients with MVP, as its association with arrhythmias, hospitalization and the need for intervention is not negligible.

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