Vocational training and employability: Evaluation evidence from Romania

Popescu, Mădălina Ecaterina; Roman, Monica

doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.11.001

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“…The Romanian labor market is one of the largest in the Eastern Europe, second only to the Polish one in terms of the size of labor force. After the change in the political regime and the switch from planned to market economy in 1989, the country's economy and society suffered a number of changes that significantly affected the quality and the dimension of the labor force [1]. A large number of labor market reforms and the restructuring of economic sectors, alongside with the possibility of working abroad, put the Romanian labor market in a quite unstable situation.…”

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Regional Sustainability, Individual Expectations and Work Motivation: A Multilevel Analysis

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In the context of the recent labor shortages in Eastern European countries, Romania included, companies, organizations and decision makers need to strongly address the issue of labor motivation for increasing worker performance and also for attracting the scarce labor resources. The main goal of the research is to explore new determinants of work motivation, such as regional sustainability and also individual factors related to individual expectations. Therefore, the responsive methodology used for this purpose implies a multilevel econometric modelling, in which the first level regards individuals, and the second one consists in development regions. Moreover, the role of individual factors is tested using Vroom’s theory of expectations and filling a gap in the existing literature on work motivation in developing, post-communist economies. The main findings prove that one dimension of sustainability, namely social sustainability has a significant impact on work motivation, alongside with four dimensions of individual factors. Economic and environmental sustainability have no significant impact on work motivation in the case of Romanian workers.

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“…The results suggest that institutional variables associated with the principles of economic freedom are most strongly correlated to entrepreneurship (Nikolaev et al, 2018). At the same time, the determinants of youth entrepreneurship are presented in various papers (Chigunta, 2002;Ojiaku et al, 2018;Kojo Oseifuah, 2010;Popescu & Roman, 2018) that describe human capital related factors, such as financial literacy, education and vocational training.…”

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The Young Entrepreneurs of Europe and the Role of International Mobility

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Paraschiv³

2019

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The Single European Market and the warranty of freedom of movement of goods and people within the European Union has made an impact in the share of European youth travelling internationally. This phenomenon has brought countless advantages including increased economic performance on the labor market, development of entrepreneurial actions and even personal growth. This paper estimates the impact of international mobility in Europe on youth entrepreneurship, after the individual's returning in the country of origin. The data source for this study is a European survey launched within the Horizon 2020 project MOVE "Mapping mobilitypathways, institutions and structural effects of youth mobility in Europe". Using Prosperity Score Matching on a generous sample providing data on both mobile and non-mobile respondents, we prove that people have double chances of becoming entrepreneurs if they had an intra-European mobility experience. Even though mobility has been shown to have statistically significant benefits, it only affected the entrepreneurship of European youth in a conservative way explained by the factors that encourage the youth to travel abroad.

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“…Several studies focused on the evaluation of training programs were also published in Germany (e.g. Caliendo & Schmidl (2016); Mueller & Gaus, (2015)), Romania (Popescu & Roman, 2018), Czech Republic (e.g. Dvoulety (2017); Dvoulety & Lukes (2016); Pelucha et al, (2019)).…”

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Evaluation of the Effects of the Graduate Practice in Slovakia: Comparison of Results of Counterfactual Methods

Švábová¹,

Kramárová²,

Ďurica³

2021

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Graduate Practice is in Slovakia one of the measures of active labour market policy aimed at decreasing the unemployment rate of young graduates. It is one of the most frequently used interventions by young jobseekers under the age of 26; similar measures are used in other European Union (EU) member states. The specific objective of this intervention is to provide young jobseekers to gain the first contact with the labour market, first work experience and work habits that may be attractive to potential employers. The intervention is financed from the European Social Fund (within the Operational Program -Human Resources and the priority axis -Youth Employment Initiative) and the state budget. This fact requires ad 1) to evaluate the eligibility of drawing these resources and ad 2) to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of resources in terms of employability and sustainability of participants of the intervention in the labour market, the second of which is the primary objective of this study. The European Commission has increasingly required the member states of the EU to carry out impact evaluations of funded interventions and to develop evidence-based policies that will implement the results of such evaluations. The aim of this study is, therefore, to evaluate and review the effects of the Graduate Practice on the employability of young jobseekers in conditions of Slovakia. This evaluation is carried out using a counterfactual approach by comparing the results of treated and non-treated individuals by applying the three most used methods: regression adjustment, instrumental variable, and propensity score matching method. The results indicate significant effects of the Graduate Practice on the employability of young jobseekers and their sustainability in employment. The results of the evaluation are valuable mainly for policymakers, i.e. in setting the rules of the intervention and its eligibility to make the measure more effective or potentially in preparing other measures aimed at youth unemployment. Implications for Central European audience: The findings of the evaluation may inspire policymakers in other countries than Slovakia to introduce similar or new programs for the

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Vocational training and employability: Evaluation evidence from Romania

Cited by 20 publications

References 18 publications

Regional Sustainability, Individual Expectations and Work Motivation: A Multilevel Analysis

Regional Sustainability, Individual Expectations and Work Motivation: A Multilevel Analysis

The Young Entrepreneurs of Europe and the Role of International Mobility

Evaluation of the Effects of the Graduate Practice in Slovakia: Comparison of Results of Counterfactual Methods

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