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productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US …
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create significant value-added with a mix of both 3G and WLAN technologies. It is notable that no attractive broadband …
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The challenges of payment transactions in electronic commerce were initially underestimated, as is now clear in the light of technological progress and stricter legislation, meaning traditional business models are increasingly coming up against their limits. Only secure, user- friendly and...
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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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it is in the interest of both agents to implement a corporatist approach to economic policies. We find that it is … difficult to implement corporatism, although it generally increases social welfare, since it often reduces the union’s utility …. In particular, we show that a micro-founded union will never find it profitable to co- operate with the Government …
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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 … area were not statistically significant, the results suggested that computing and IT studies were less likely to lead to …
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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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