Impulses for “Perspectives on work“
The entrepeneurial spirit & new
schools
CLUSTER IV
Alternative forms of work &
the challenge of unemployment
Day 1
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
What explains differences in
entrepreneurial spirit?
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Risk aversion
Culture
Low tolerance of failure
Institutions (Tax, opportunity costs of
employment, Start-up costs)
• Role model & exposure to business
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
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
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)
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
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
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.
The end
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Impulses for “Perspectives on work“
Risk Groups
CLUSTER IV
Alternative forms of work &
the challenge of unemployment
Day 2.5
Outline
• Identifying Risks group
• Place in labor market
• Policies reviewed
Identifying Risks group
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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
Employment
Unemployment
-Low Wage
Inactivity
(invulnerable)
Discouraged job-seekers
-Insecure (short-term,
outsourcing, etc.)
-Discrimination
-Stimulate Corporate
Social Responsibility
-Low skilled
-Parents
-Migrants
-Lone parents
-Ethnic Minorities
-Other reasons
-Young/ Elderly
-Forced early retirement
-Job-search help
training
-Child care allowance
-Pro-active policies (disabled/
low skilled, Maternity leave
etc.)
Active labor market measures
Non-discrimination provisions
Employment
Unemployed
Inactive*
Policies reviewed
Health
Skills
Gender
Care
Origin
Ethnicity
One-stop Centre for benefits/ employment
information
Age
Policies
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Integration centers for migrants
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Child care facilities
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Certificate Acquired knowledge
Education Bank
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Start-up assistance
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Flexible Jobs
Public Procurement/ social clause
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Social Certificate
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Transition into work with benefits
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Enforcement of accessibility requirements
Education/ health of illegal migrant children
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The Goal To be achieved
The Goal To be achieved