Vocational Training is one of the crucial elements for generation that is going to be a part of skilled workforce of this world of work and to reduce the level of poverty.  It quickly enables a person to be a part of competitive workforce by enhancing their skills so that he may cope with the rapidly changing technological job and environment. The core objective of this study is to examine the ...

Background: Health related information and communication technology is globally an important and growing sector. With the promise of more efficient and cost-effective care, eHealth is becoming a key priority to address the current challenges faced by health systems worldwide. Addressing IT skills for healthcare workforce is seen as an important element of achieving greater social inclusion. Obj...

A two-year-long economic downturn and a persistent income gap with the U.S. mainland contribute to an uncertain outlook for Puerto Rico. Still, the commonwealth possesses a skilled and educated workforce, a favorable business climate, and the benefits of U.S. legal and financial structures— advantages that could encourage the development of new industries and create the potential for sustained ...

In Japan, non-regular employment, such as part-time and temporary work, has increased as a proportion of the workforce in recent years. This paper examines whether the expansion of temporary employment has caused an increased perception of job insecurity among existing workers. I exploit the temporary staffing deregulation of 2004, which allowed temporary agency staffing for production line wor...

Linked employer-employee data for Brazil over a period of large-scale trade liberalization document two salient workforce changeovers. Within the traded-goods sector, there is a marked occupation downgrading and a simultaneous education upgrading by which employers fill expanding low-skill intensive occupations with increasingly educated jobholders. Between sectors, there is a labor demand shif...

 Most debates about the role of tariff cuts on the level of employment and rate of wages in labor market have come out of well-known Hecscher – Ohlin and Stopler – Samuelson (HOS) theorems. Considering the fact that we have divided the workforce into skilled and unskilled labors the present paper assesses the impacts of tariff cuts on labor market indicators in Iran. To address these issues...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has experienced tremendous economic and industrial growth in the petroleum, airline, maritime and construction sectors, especially since the discovery of oil reserves. Mass recruitment of low skilled or unskilled laborers from less-developed countries has been utilized to satisfy the manpower demands of these fast paced industrial developments. Such workforce recr...

In this paper, a real maintenance workforce-constrained scheduling problem is formulated as a bi-objective mixed-integer programming model with the aim of simultaneously minimizing the workforce requirements and maximizing the equipment availability. The skilled workforce is provided by internal and external resources using regular time, overtime and contracting. The equipment availability is m...