... by the diversity of definitions proposed and various components or elements that have been incorporated into it. There is a consensus that employability is influenced by both external socioeconomic factors (labour market demand or the state of the economy) and personal factors (personal characteristics...

... to absorb large numbers of unskilled workers may be located in the same low wage labor market sectors out of which these interventions are designed to catapult workers. This paper aims to present data on an understudied aspect of WISEs: the labor market niches where they are active, the occupations...

... for European social enterprises is work integration. Social integration through work is one of the social aims that are particularly interesting to governments within the framework of active labour market policies. Often, the concept of social economy, which is essentially broader and refers to economic...

... some WISEs to perform an important local redistributive role. Labour market Unemployment Enterprise economics Social economics Rural regions Ireland Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) are a European wide phenomenon characterised by two distinctive goals of service...