Governments and physician organizations in Canada have identified current and anticipated future shortages of physicians. The creation of opportunities for licensure for the sizeable population of unlicensed international medical graduates (IMG) residing in Canada can alleviate some of the shortage of medical manpower. We examine whether expenditures on IMG skills assessment, training and licen...

The views expressed within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the World Bank or any of its affiliated organizations. Foreword O ver the last few decades, the importance of secondary education has changed radically. This holds true both for the opportunities this level of education offers to the individual student as well as the role it plays in the economic ...

This study estimates the effects of Personal Financial Management Course attendance and enrollment assistance using a natural experiment in the U.S. Army. New enlistees’ course attendance reduces the probability of having credit account balances, average balances, delinquencies, and adverse legal actions in the first year after the course, but it has no effects on accounts in the second year or...

The man who is emerging as the most important resource leads to the efficient utilization of the every available resource in the organizations. The HR heads works well to predict, deploy, develop, sustain and integrate the resource. This process is an essential cornerstone in the efficient management of personnel in an organization. Manpower planning entails getting the right number and type of...

There are numerous of programming resources on the Internet, such as programming problems on online judge systems and program codes that solve these problems. Although these resources are valuable for students to practice programming, they are not effectively organized to facilitate students learning. Students and teachers may both hope that all these programming resources are organized as a tu...

We study a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers’ investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially compensated through school resources. In this w...

recruitment of human resources has a critical importance as the most important and essential asset of a knowledge-based organization. the process of resourcing and recruitment has to be compatible with the characteristics of a knowledge-based organization and conditions of competitive markets in this regard. in this paper, which is the result of an applied developmental study, the process of re...