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present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … on structural mismatch between labour demand and labour supply in Poland. We find that the employment gap between Poland … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest …
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been a shift toward employment of skilled workers in Australia, as well as in many other industrialised economies. While it … paper shows other factors are at work. Changing employment patterns are more closely associated with a pull toward skilled …
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Examines the incidence and adjustment experiences of workers who are displaced by economic change. Since the mid-1970s, the aggregate annual rate of retrenchment has fluctuated in a counter-cyclical pattern around a relatively stable long-term trend of about 5 per cent. The paper shows that the...
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The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status … and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences …
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This report examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of meat processing enterprises. The effects on employees are also considered, and the scope to achieve further necessary change is analysed. The study has drawn on information obtained from...
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employment and growth cannot unambiguously be derived from modern labour market theory and are at least partially at odds with …This paper challenges the institutional sclerosis view of the German crisis according to which rigid labour markets and … convincing, because the underlying hypotheses about the effects of labour market regulation and welfare state institutions on …
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, one may read of manufacturing jobs being "exported" to the Far East. However, it is simply impossible to import goods … employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …
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This Productivity Commission staff working paper, The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia, was released in … examine developments in employment relationships and the implications of these developments for the labour force and the … employment contribute to the Australian economy. This paper examines how the rapid growth of labour hire employment can be …
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Skill and Australia’s Productivity Surge examines the changing demand for skills and the effect of increased skill on productivity growth. It finds that Australia’s productivity surge post 1993-94 was mainly due to factors other than the increase in the skill of the workforce.
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income growth of the 1990s was distributed evenly between labour (wages and salaries) and capital (profits). The labour and … adversely affected the income-earning potential of labour appear to be unfounded at the aggregate level. …
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