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programmes of the IMF and the World Bank. The reforms included liberalisation of the controls that inhibited employment in the … which labour market liberalisation affected employment and wages. It briefly explores the impact of the reforms on … concludes that economic reforms in Zimbabwe had adverse impact on employment (both quality and quantity) and wages. Furthermore …
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Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked...
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In this paper we explain the prevalence of explicit contracts of employment, particularly those that embody high … agency characterized in and supported by the common law. The implication is that implicit employment contracts supported by … the common law are incapable of effectively governing employment relationship characterized by these two problems. Thus …
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In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
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employment and growth cannot unambiguously be derived from modern labour market theory and are at least partially at odds with …
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not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … positive relationship between the level of study and the probability of later employment. Although the differences in subject … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …
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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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This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
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workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is … production has also promoted the employment of more highly skilled workers. …
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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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