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Firm’s strategic orientation involves synchronizing environmental dynamics, corporate strategy and capital structure in order to achieve firm performance targets. The co-alignment model used successfully in the hospitality industry might be used in a wider context as a framework in explaining...
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The impact of new technology (ICT) on labour markets and welfare is analyzed in a model of matching. First, ICT lowers cost and speed of market access, thus reducing frictions in matching a searching worker to an opportunity. It raises output and lowers the cost of entry for a new firm. The rise...
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A lot has been written over the last decade with regard to Toyota and the productive model associated to it (toyota-ism). And more specifically concerning the "(…) best-seller that changed the... sociological world" (Castillo, 1998: 31). But the case of Salvador Caetano’s Ovar Industrial...
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production on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality and unemployment of skilled labour in a developing economy have been analyzed …
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The present paper develops a three sector Harris-Todaro (1970) type general equilibrium model of unemployment by … effects of the inflows of foreign capital on the level of unskilled unemployment and skilled-unskilled wage inequality. We … find that an inflow of foreign capital raises the skilled- unskilled wage gap and lowers the level of unemployment of the …
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The paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model that can explain simultaneous existence of unemployment of … both skilled and unskilled labour. The unemployment of unskilled labour is explicated in terms of rural-urban migration … (FDI) in the primary export sector improve both national welfare and urban unemployment problem of unskilled labour while …
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This paper has developed a three-sector general equilibrium framework that explains unemployment of both skilled and … unskilled labour. Unemployment of unskilled labour is of the Harris-Todaro (1970) type while unemployment of skilled labour is …-unskilled wage inequality and the extent of unemployment of both types of labour crucially hinge on the properties implied by the …
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economy using a three-sector general equilibrium model with simultaneous existence off unemployment of both skilled and … mitigates unemployment problem of both types of labour. The paper theoretically justifies the desirability of flow of FDI in …
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is an element that cannot be separated from the other elements of the work market, especially from unemployment, because …. There are many causes for unemployment, causes that are to be found both at the macroeconomic level and at the microeconomic … level. In most of the cases, in an analysis that aims at finding the causes that have generated the unemployment, many …
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unemployment of skilled labour in a developing economy. The unskilled workers are fully employed but there is imperfection in the … labour and their efficiency depends on the relative income distribution and the unemployment rate. The analysis finds that an … inflow of foreign capital worsens the relative wage inequality but lowers the unemployment of skilled labour. It provides an …
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