Human capital and social capital are crucial in shaping entrepreneurial decisions, yet their combined effects on entrepreneurship entry remain insufficiently explored. This study uses data from the China Household Tracking Survey (2010–2018) to examine how the coupling of human and social capital influences …

Skills matching- The solution to the imperfect information transfer at labourmarkets?

This study proposes a framework to measure touristification of consumption spaces, consisting of concentration of retail capital, business displacement and standardization of the consumption landscape. This framework is tested using business registration data and rent price estimates for consumption …

De werkdruk in winkels is de afgelopen jaren fors toegenomen. Onderbezetting, taakvervaging en personeelstekorten zetten medewerkers én ondernemers onder druk. Winkelpersoneel ervaart stress, valt uit of verlaat de sector, terwijl nieuwe medewerkers schaars zijn. Tegelijkertijd biedt technologische innovatie …

The transition from secondary education to the first year of higher education is a phase in which students are faced with many challenges. First-year students may lack the academic capital that is needed to understand explicit and implicit rules of higher education. We investigated students’ participation …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems, and the actors within, are a core factor in fostering entrepreneurial activity in regions (Brush et al., 2019). Business networks are one of the entrepreneurial ecosystems element and key in socially embedding entrepreneurs. The extent to which an entrepreneur is embedded …

Eenmaal per jaar brengen we, vanuit de netwerken Noorderlink, Werken in Friesland en Samenwerking Rijk Noord, HR-en loopbaanadviseurs uit het Noorden bijelkaar. Vandaag was het een mooie en energievolle bijeenkomst met aansprekende thema’s als de noordelijke arbeidsmarkt en skillsgerichte (loopbaan)begeleiding …

Stel je voor dat werkgevers, HR-professionals, studie-keuzeadviseurs, werkzoekenden, onderwijsinstellingen, arbeidsmarktadviseurs, beleidsmakers, lerenden, werkenden en loopbaanbegeleiders dezelfde taal zouden spreken…Wat zou dat handig zijn!Daarom legt CompetentNL de basis voor één gemeenschappelijke …

This article analyzis two Dutch experiments in which the government guarantees a job to tackle long-term unemployment. The experiment with the Melkert jobs was carried out in the 1990s. Recently the municipality of Groningen implemented a project in which long-term unemployed people are offered a so-called …