Impulses%20for%20 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

About This Presentation
Title:

Impulses%20for%20

Description:

Impulses for Perspectives on work The entrepeneurial spirit & new schools CLUSTER IV Alternative forms of work & the challenge of unemployment – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:109
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 19
Provided by: caro5188
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Impulses%20for%20


1
Impulses for Perspectives on workThe
entrepeneurial spirit new schools
  • CLUSTER IV
  • Alternative forms of work
  • the challenge of unemployment
  • Day 1

2
What is entrepreneurship?
  • Start a new venture-creating work
  • Responsible for the risk taking
  • Less entrepreneurial spirit in EU than in USA
  • EU is not homogenous

3
What explains differences in entrepreneurial
spirit?
  • Risk aversion
  • Culture
  • Low tolerance of failure
  • Institutions (Tax, opportunity costs of
    employment, Start-up costs)
  • Role model exposure to business

4
Is entrepreneurship a viable solution to
unemployment?
  • Prevention/fighting unemployment creating
    jobs
  • Entrepreneurship is ONLY part of the solution to
    unemployment
  • Not everybody can be an entrepreneur
  • Different desires, ability and skills
  • Sustainable traits
  • Socially desirable

5
How to encourage sustainable entrepreneurship?
  • Education
  • Awareness of what a business is
  • Promote spirit with social responsibility
  • Example Make your mark with a tenner
  • Have a choice and awareness
  • Encourage start-ups in the final years of
    education

6
Moving from prevention to fighting unemployment
  • Microfinance (create team/group approach)
  • Start-up costs
  • Transition costs /secure subsistence
  • As a way of exiting unemployment and creating
    jobs
  • Second chance programs with start-up focus
  • One-stop support centre's (vulnerable groups
    risk pooling)
  • Competitive grants (can be part regional support,
    performance based, may incl. artisan projects,
    creativity, etc., sustainability)

7
(No Transcript)
8
Unleash the spirit at work
  • Workers no longer required to leave brain at the
    gates
  • Engage in innovation and improvement
  • Decentralisation of responsibilities,
  • Matched by decentralized control

9
New Schools?
  • Provide incentives to improve education
    performance (select keep the best teachers)
  • Increase competition among teachers
  • Assessment systems (standardized testing)
  • Hire/fire (address mismatch)
  • Not loose sight of the social status/ reputation
  • Involvement of society (parents, business)
  • School as communal meeting place

10
What educational organizations can and should do
  • Teach basic, soft and job search skills
  • Review the curriculum
  • Improving job matching information systems
  • Help in regional labor market analysis
  • Exposure/interaction with professionals
  • Including internships and research projects ()
  • Modern apprenticeship
  • Assistance after graduation (incl. information
    sharing/networking with other graduates)

11
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
  • The end

12
Impulses for Perspectives on workRisk Groups
  • CLUSTER IV
  • Alternative forms of work
  • the challenge of unemployment
  • Day 2.5

13
Outline
  • Identifying Risks group
  • Place in labor market
  • Policies reviewed

14
Identifying Risks group
  • Age (Young, Old)
  • Health (disability)
  • Skills (Low skills)
  • Gender
  • Care (Parents, Lone parents, other care
    responsibilities)
  • Origin (native, migrant)
  • Ethnicity (Race, religion, believes)
  • Sexual Orientation

15
Employment
Unemployment
Inactivity (invulnerable)
  • Low Wage
  • Insecure (short-term, outsourcing, etc.)
  • Discrimination

Discouraged job-seekers
  • Low skilled
  • Migrants
  • Ethnic Minorities
  • Young/ Elderly
  • Parents
  • Lone parents
  • Other reasons
  • Forced early retirement
  • Job-search help training
  • Child care allowance
  • Pro-active policies (disabled/ low skilled,
    Maternity leave etc.)
  • Stimulate Corporate Social Responsibility

Non-discrimination provisions
16
Policies reviewed
Employment
Unemployed
Inactive
Policies
Age
Health
Skills
Gender
Ethnicity
Care
Origin
17
The Goal To be achieved
18
The Goal To be achieved
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com