Recoge: 1. Introduction - 2. Key issues for member States and for higher education institutions - 3. The EU contribution: incentives for transparency, diversification, mobility and cooperation.
Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges brings together and unprecedented group of economists, data providers, and data analysts to discuss research on the state of entrepreneurship and to address the challenges in understanding this dynamic part of the economy. Each chapter addresses the challenges of measuring entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurial firms contribute to economies and standards of living. The book also investigates heterogeneity in entrepreneurs, challenges experienced by entrepreneurs over time, and how much less we know than we think about entrepreneurship given data limitations. This volume will be a groundbreaking first serious look into entrepreneurship in the NBER's Income and Wealth series.
This book makes the case that career development practice is a mental health intervention, and provides skills and strategies to support career development practitioners in their work. It explores how practitioners do more than help people navigate career paths, they change people's lives in ways that improve mental health and overall well-being.
The impact of COVID-19 on local jobs and workers dwarfs those of the 2008 global financial crisis. The 2020 edition of Job Creation and Local Economic Development considers the short-term impacts on local labour markets as well as the longer-term implications for local development.
The Europe 2020 strategy, its flagship initiatives and the new integrated guidelines put knowledge at the heart of the Union's efforts for achieving smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; the commission's proposal for the multiannual financial framework 2014-2020 supports this strategy with a significant increase in the budget devoted to investment in education , research and innovation., plays a crucial role in individual and societal advancement, and in providing the highly skilled human capital, and the articulate citizens that Europe needs to create jobs, economic growth and prosperity. Higher education institutions are thus crucial partners in delivering the European Union's strategy to drive forward and maintain growth. Section 2 of this Communication identifies key policy issues for Member states and higher education institutions seeking to maximise their contribution to Europe's growth and jobs. The specific actions that the EU will take, bringing its added value to support the modernisation efforts of public authorities institutions are presented in section 3. The Staff Working Document accompanying this communication discusses the analytical evidence underpinning these policy issues and actions.
Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis, Europe’s economy is still fragile. Notwithstanding recent positive signs amid calmer financial markets, medium-term growth is likely to remain frail owing to continuing weaknesses and vulnerabilities at the country level and in the fabric of European institutions and banks, especially in the euro area. In addition, unemployment in many countries has reached very high levels. The IMF research collected in this volume provides a number of guideposts that offer an opportunity for stronger and better-balanced growth and employment in Europe after what has been a long and dismal period of crisis.
Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.