Ivana StudenaSlovak Academy of Sciences | SAV · Institute for Forecasting
Ivana Studena
PhD in Economics, MSc Computer Science
About
17
Publications
3,121
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
36
Citations
Introduction
Ivana Studena works at the Institute for Forecasting, Centre for Social and Psychological Sciences of Slovak Academy of Sciences. Ivana's research is currently focused on topics on lifelong learning, design and assessment of policies and tools supporting LLL and adult education participation, development and support of entrepreneurial skills and competencies and organisational learning. She currently leads Slovak team in Horizon 2020 Project Enliven on Lifelong learning.
Publications
Publications (17)
This chapter sets out the framework used in 17 organisational case studies (across three economic sectors in nine countries) to investigate ‘organisational’ and individual agency in workplace learning. Agency is key to explaining why individuals take up learning opportunities in different dimensions of their lives over the life course. It is relati...
The body of international human rights law developed in the wake of the Second World War envisaged adults as citizens, playing an active part in society and government. The chapter explores how viewing adults as agentic citizens (yet also objects of state policy) relates to the notion of bounded agency, and summarises and discusses the implications...
Learning from activism, usually informal and unrecognised, is an important component of industrial relations and a major learning source for individuals, organisations and society. Young workers who lack support from existing employee organisations may create their own. Based on studies of social movement organisations in highly diverse industrial...
Workplace learning opportunities are closely linked to the type of job an individual has, and people’s use of available opportunities differs. Learning opportunities do not translate automatically into learning: individuals need to take advantage of them. This chapter presents a novel approach to investigating individual agency in workplace learnin...
The adult learning sector is particularly diverse. Evidence on how its employees access workplace learning is very limited. Focussing on learning by early career teaching staff, using evidence from eight case studies across four countries (Austria, Italy, Slovakia and the UK) and different sub-fields (from providing basic skills training to corpora...
This chapter explores the impact of Upskilling Pathways (UP), a developing European programme adopted by the European Council in 2016. UP targets all people over 25 who may be in employment, or unemployed, or economically inactive, but require uplifting in literacy, numeracy and digital skills. This is at a time when 73 million adults have low leve...
This chapter reviews the steps taken in Slovakia to adopt and implement Youth Guarantee (YG) and how they interact with existing policy tools and governance structures. There is a long history of a high unemployment rate amongst the Slovak youth, with the lowly skilled youth in particular suffering the most. Hence, youth employability as a priority...
This paper contributes to the literature with evidence on the effectiveness of a particular active labour market policy programme, whose traditional design allows international comparisons within the family of programmes facilitating workplace insertions of the unemployed youth. Available evidence on the effectiveness of comparable programmes throu...
Entrepreneurial risk perception and entrepreneurial intention of employed and unemployed in the context of entrepreneurial individual resources. Človek a spoločnosť, 2018, roč. 21, č. 2, s. 31-46. Abstract: Aim: The changes in the nature of economic and social issues has renewed the attention on the role of entrepreneurship, and point to a multifac...
In this paper we present the first findings of the pilot study undertaken within our research grant on decision making with respect to entrepreneurship decisions and plans and specifically with respect to entrepreneurship opportunities. The research question discussed here is the role of the family support for an individual in his decisions about e...
The future of jobs depends on the capacity of individuals to develop new skills all throughout their working lives. The technological changes taking place over the past decades which are to be fully reflected in the world of work in the coming years introduce new pressures on the labour force. The scope of current and newly anticipated skills and a...
The focus of this article is on the process of individual firm growth on the adjustment path during the transition from a centrally planned to a mar- ket based economy. The empirical analysis of firm behavior is based on data covering all medium and large industrial firms from Slovak industry du- ring the period of 1993 to 1996. At the beginning of...
This article analyzes the reaction of firms to transition in adjusting firm size. The author offers an empirical analysis in the context of the firm-growth model with emphasis on the presence of ownership and corporate-structure effects.There is no evidence for a general firm-growth/firm-size relationship. On the other hand, the author finds eviden...