Title: Impulses%20for%20
1Impulses for Perspectives on workThe
entrepeneurial spirit new schools
- CLUSTER IV
- Alternative forms of work
- the challenge of unemployment
- Day 1
2What 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
3What 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
4Is 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
5How 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
6Moving 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)
8Unleash 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
9New 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
10What 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)
11THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
12Impulses for Perspectives on workRisk Groups
- CLUSTER IV
- Alternative forms of work
- the challenge of unemployment
- Day 2.5
13Outline
- Identifying Risks group
- Place in labor market
- Policies reviewed
14Identifying 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
15Employment
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
- Child care allowance
- Pro-active policies (disabled/ low skilled,
Maternity leave etc.)
- Stimulate Corporate Social Responsibility
Non-discrimination provisions
16Policies reviewed
Employment
Unemployed
Inactive
Policies
Age
Health
Skills
Gender
Ethnicity
Care
Origin
17The Goal To be achieved
18The Goal To be achieved