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Book review of Alice R. P. Abreu (org.): Flexible production and economic governance in Latin America
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This book organized by Alice Abreu, actual President of ISA-RC30 “Sociology of Work”, is a follow up of an international seminar on the same theme of the title, held in September 1997 also in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). In this book are published papers presented on Latin American case studies,...
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Modeling with scenarios: technology in north-south development
Chichilnisky, Graciela; Cole, Sam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1978
This article outlines work in progress on a study of technological choice in the context of North-South development. Its main purpose is to describe the methodology being developed in the pilot phase of the study. This is of interest because it links together a number of analytic...
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Employment Growth by Accelerated Manufacturing in India- A Comparative Study and Lessons to Be Learnt from China
Acharya, Hem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
It is the popular belief that employment growth should have been at an equal pace with the growth of Manufacturing industry in India post major economic reforms in 1991, but number of studies show that it hasn’t been so. Though it’s seen that employment has indeed increased post 1991 reforms...
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Study on workload of public health nurses and other women health workers in India
Kannan, Srinivasan; Sarma, P. Sankara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Introduction. The study gathered information on work load among women public health workers and factors associated with this in Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Malappuram and Wayanad districts of Kerala. An increasing number of nurses were reported to have occupational hazards and are...
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The fading scope of labour – remarks about the lost rationale of a common term
Mann, Stefan; Wüstemann, Henry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Work and labour describe activities with a redistributional and a reproductive component. In addition, the terms have gained the function of creating social status and self-esteem. This paper argues that the shifts on the labour market during the past decades question both the redistributive and...
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LABOR AND CAPITAL AS ELEMENTS OF PRODUCTIVE FORCES
Filippova, Irina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article analyzes the relations between capital and labor in the aspects of reproductive processes and social and …
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Firms’ Performance, Employment and Poverty during the Economic Slowdown Period in Vietnam
Le, Chau; Nguyen Viet, Cuong; Nguyen, Thao; Nguyen, Thuy; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Vietnam has achieved high economic growth and poverty reduction over the last two decades. However the country has experienced economic slowdown in recent years. GDP growth rate within the period of 2009-2012 was about 5 percent, which is considerably lower than the previous periods’ growth...
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Agglomeration and interregional mobility of labor in Portugal
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
-regional clustering and demand for labor by companies in Portugal. Is expected at the outset that there is more demand for work where the … of the New Economic Geography, namely the demand for labor is greater where firms are better able to cluster that is …
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The impact of employment in Israel on the Palestinian labor force (2005–08)
Etkes, Haggay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study provides circumstantial evidence for the impact of permits for employment in Israel on the Palestinian labor … that merges data from the Palestinian Labor Force Survey with Israeli administrative data on permits for employment in … number of permits issued. These results reflect the short-run benefits for the un-skilled Palestinian labor force as well as …
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Theoretical approach and practical analysis on employment measures- case study on Romania, 2010
Balan, A. Ana Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The active measures are the main strategies that have the effect of reducing the unemployment, on short, medium and long term. An active measure has the effect of employment growth, by creating new jobs or by facilitating the access to vacancies. This paper aims to inform about the active...
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