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Impulses for Perspectives on workThe
entrepeneurial spirit new schools

• CLUSTER IV
• Alternative forms of work
• the challenge of unemployment
• Day 1

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What 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

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What 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

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Is 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

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How 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

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Moving 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)

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Unleash 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

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New 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

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What 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)

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

• The end

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Impulses for Perspectives on workRisk Groups

• CLUSTER IV
• Alternative forms of work
• the challenge of unemployment
• Day 2.5

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Outline

• Identifying Risks group
• Place in labor market
• Policies reviewed

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Identifying 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

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Employment
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

• Job-search help training

• Child care allowance
• Pro-active policies (disabled/ low skilled,
  Maternity leave etc.)

• Stimulate Corporate Social Responsibility

Non-discrimination provisions
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Policies reviewed
Employment
Unemployed
Inactive
Policies
Age
Health
Skills
Gender
Ethnicity
Care
Origin
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The Goal To be achieved
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The Goal To be achieved