Gestão de recursos humanos no Ministério de Desenvolvimento Rural-Delegação Santo Antão

A Gestão dos Recursos Humanos na Administração Pública Cabo-verdiana tem sofrido profundas mudanças, principalmente com a implementação do Plano de Cargos, Carreiras e Salários. Na Delegação Regional do Desenvolvimento Rural, Ambiente e Pesca da Ribeira Grande, Santo Antão e nas demais Instituições Públicas do Estado, as políticas e práticas da gestão dos recursos humanos são definidas de acordo com as normas, leis, regulamentos e diretrizes para toda a Administração Pública. O principal objetivo do estágio foi verificar as diferenças entre a teoria e a prática, principalmente no que refere-se as práticas de GRH descritos no relatório. Para alcançar tal objetivo fez-se uma pesquisa sobre a gestão dos recursos humanos e as suas práticas, enfatizando a prática de formação. A formação desempenha um papel preponderante na medida em que visa reforçar as capacidades institucionais de modo a adequar as capacidades individuais dos funcionários às profundas mudanças que vêm sendo implementadas no seio da Administração Pública. Durante o estágio e para a elaboração do relatório foram feitas pesquisas através da utilização de ferramentas metodológicas como análise documental (principalmente leis, decretos-lei e regulamentos) e observação. Com este trabalho pretende-se descrever as atividades desenvolvidas.

Indústria, mineria i artesania en toponímia rural: el cas del municipi d’Osor (la Selva)

The study presented is interdisciplinary names: the presence of place names related with industrial, artisanal or mining activities in rural areas. The main hypothesis refers to this fact; the uniqueness of industrial, mining or craft in a rural area is an important reason to influence their names, a fact that gives archaeological value, remembering economic activities now disappeared. The methodology used for the study has been usually applied in onomastic studies: compilation of names from field work, oral interviews, archival work, revision of ancient documents and revision of works and studies related to the cartography of Osor. The final conclusion is that, as proposed in the hypothesis, in a rural area as the studied, the low presence of industrial, artisanal or mining activities have generated place names that have helped in keeping the memory of economic activities now disappeared

Rural Library Funding, 2007

Rural library funding by county (.pdf) including per capita and by valuation, for FY07.

Rural Library Funding, 2009

Rural library funding by county (.pdf) including per capita and by valuation, for FY08.

Rural Library Funding, 2008

Rural library funding by county (.pdf) including per capita and by valuation, for FY08.

Rural Library Funding, 2008

Rural library funding by county (.pdf) including per capita and by valuation, for FY08.

Rural Library Funding, 2009

Rural library funding by county (.pdf) including per capita and by valuation, for FY08.

Estudio de base y definición de proyectos piloto para un PROGRAMA NACIONAL DE ELECTRIFICACIÓN RURAL EN PARAGUAY

El presente Informe es el Informe Final de los servicios de Cooperación Técnica “Programa Nacional de Electrificación Rural de Paraguay” CT 1039. Contiene los resultados de todas las actividades realizadas e integra los contenidos revisados de documentos anteriores. Los trabajos realizados para este informe han sido dirigidos por el Ing. Xavier Vallvé. Los autores del informe son los Ing. Pol Arranz-Piera, Ing. Jean-Claude Pulfer, con la colaboración del Ing. Enrique Velo y las aportaciones del Lic. Jaume Serrasolses y Sr. Jorge Sneij.

Programa d’investigació aplicada per a l’impuls del desenvolupament energètic rural en Països en Desenvolupament – PRIADER

Informe final de la convocatòria de subvencions destinades a donar suport a projectes de sensibilització, educació, formació, capacitació i recerca en l’àmbit de cooperació al desenvolupament impulsats per determinats agents universitaris dins l’exercici 2008 (codi de convocatòria U2008)

Improving energy access in rural sub-Saharan Africa

XVII Convocatòria d’ajuts a accions de cooperació - 2009GRECDH – UPC. Improving Energy Access In Rural sub- Saharan Africa. O-006/09. Informe

Declining labor force attachment and downward trends in unemployment and participation

The US labor market witnessed two apparently unrelated secular movements in thelast 30 years: a decline in unemployment between the early 1980s and the early 2000s,and a decline in participation since the early 2000s. Using CPS micro data and a stock-flow accounting framework, we show that a substantial, and hitherto unnoticed, factorbehind both trends is a decline in the share of nonparticipants who are at the margin ofparticipation. A lower share of marginal nonparticipants implies a lower unemploymentrate, because marginal nonparticipants enter the labor force mostly through unemployment,while other nonparticipants enter the labor force mostly through employment.

Labor market heterogeneity and the aggregate matching function

The matching function -a key building block in models of labor market frictions- impliesthat the job finding rate depends only on labor market tightness. We estimate such amatching function and find that the relation, although remarkably stable over 1967-2007,broke down spectacularly after 2007. We argue that labor market heterogeneities are notfully captured by the standard matching function, but that a generalized matching functionthat explicitly takes into account worker heterogeneity and market segmentation is fullyconsistent with the behavior of the job finding rate. The standard matching function canbreak down when, as in the Great Recession, the average characteristics of the unemployedchange too much, or when dispersion in labor market conditions -the extent to which somelabor markets fare worse than others- increases too much.

Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of language knowledge, with a special focus on a country characterized by fast economic and social development. Although English is the most widely spoken foreign language in Turkey, we initially consider the economic value of different foreign languages among the employed males aged 25 to 65. We find positive and significant returns to proficiency in English and Russian, which increase with the level of competence. Knowledge of French and German also appears to be positively rewarded in the Turkish labor market, although their economic value seems mostly linked to an increased likelihood to hold specific occupations rather than increased earnings within occupations. Focusing on English, we also explore the heterogeneity in returns to different levels of proficiency by frequency of English use at work, birth-cohort, education, occupation and rural/urban location. The results are also robust to the endogenous specification of English language skills.