She analyzes how politics, policy, and markets interact and the short- and long-term ramifications for investors. Amaka has on-the-ground experience working in 12 different African countries with organizations such as the African Development Bank and the International Crisis Group. Amaka is a regular commentator and speaker on Nigerian and African affairs. A native of Enugu, Nigeria, she is fluent in Igbo and French.
His recent work has concentrated on the operation of apprenticeship systems, and the measurement and assessment of skill mismatches in the UK and in the EU. He is currently leading a programme of research analysing skill mismatches.
He is currently leading a multinational research team that is producing projections of the future demand for and supply of skills in the European Union and its member states.
This programme of research is being funded by Cedefop. He is also involved in modelling skills demand in a number of countries outside of the EU. His research interests are in applied labour economics, particularly issues of migration, unemployment compensation schemes, workless households, job search, discrimination, inequality, minimum wages, union activity and the labour markets of eastern Europe.
Previously, he worked at Statistics Netherlands, where he was involved in several studies on population and the labour force on behalf of the European Commission. He holds an MSc in human geography and sociology from the University of Groningen.
Matthew Whittaker is chief economist and acting deputy chief executive at the Resolution Foundation thinktank. He has published numerous reports on the labour market, taxes and benefits, government finances, household debt and social policy. Jobs and Skills inpublished in Previously, he worked for Skillfast-UK, the sector skills council for the apparel, footwear and textile industry.
He studies trends in labour market inequality and job skill requirements, particularly the impacts of changes in technology, work roles, and organisational structure. His research has examined questions of skills mismatch and the impact of computers and employee involvement practices on wages, skills and employment.
He holds a PhD in sociology from Harvard University. Werner Eichhorst joined IZA as a research associate in Julybecame senior research associate in Februarydeputy director of labour policy in April and director of labour policy Europe in January From to he was project director at the Bertelsmann Foundation, a private thinktank in Germany, where he was responsible for comparative analyses of the German labour market and related policy areas, and worked at the Institute for Employment Research IABfrom to His main research area is the comparative analysis of labour market institutions and performance, as well as the political economy of labour market reform strategies.
Michael Fischer is programme manager for trade unions and co-determination at Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. He has a longstanding interest in models of alternative economic development.
He earned a PhD in sociology and public affairs from Indiana University in He studies poverty and inequality, social policy, politics and labour, among other topics.
He works on social stratification, comparative labour markets, welfare states and quantitative methods. In he completed his PhD at the University of Mannheim. His work aims to understand how new technologies have reshaped the growth potential of cities over the past century, why some places provide substantially more upward mobility for their inhabitants, and how technological advances in the 21st century will alter the labour market.
He is a doctor of economic history at Lund University, an economics associate of Nuffield College, Oxford, and specialist advisor to the Digital Skills select committee of the House of Lords.
His research interests include the transition of industrial nations to digital economies, and subsequent challenges for economic growth and employment. In particular, his work focusses on technology shocks and their associated impacts on labour markets and urban development.
An age of learningLearning for employment and A bridge to the future Stefana has a degree in psychology from the University of Geneva and a PhD in cognitive science from the University of Edinburgh.
Sara de la Rica is a professor of economics at the University of the Basque Country. Her research is focussed on the empirical analysis of the labour market, particularly on gender economics, the economic analysis of immigration and the economic analysis of labour institutions.
He was a visiting fellow at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and is a regular commentator on economic and political issues in the international press. Diane Coyle is a professor of economics at the University of Manchester and runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics.
She specialises in the economics of new technologies, globalisation, and competition policy, and has worked extensively on the impacts of mobile telephony in developing countries. Her books include GDP:This is due to the fact that the number of enterprises depending on tourism has increased and tourism businesses have expanded in size, while the ability to adapt to changes in demand has been reduced.
In the literature, these businesses are called ‘social enterprises’ or ‘social activitist’, referring to enterprises that have implemented the practice of doing business differently by their passion to contribute to regional development (Spenceley & Meyer, Spenceley, A & Meyer, D, Complete OFO Version OFO Code Description MANAGERS Managers plan, direct, coordinate and evaluate the overall activities of enterprises, governments and other organizations, or of organizational units within them, and formulate and review their policies, laws, rules and regulations.
In this article we provide a review of current capacity management approaches applicable to hospitality and tourism enterprises. While many of the traditional methodologies involve closed-form analytical calculations, newer methods have been developed that address more complex problems.
Hospitality: Tourism, hotels, entertainment and food sectors are considered part of the hospitality industry, which has been characterized by economic fluctuations.
Lodging and food services are the top domestic and international spending categories. No 1 () pp. The Impact of Economic Crisis on Tourism and Hospitality: Results from a Study in Greece Soultana (Tania) Kapiki, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, [email protected] Abstract The hospitality and tourism sector is experiencing numerous challenges as a result of the global economic crisis.