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This study identifies and analyzes the effects of firms’ workforce composition, labor turnover, and the qualities of entering and exiting employees on consequent changes in their productivity. Using register data provided by Statistics Netherlands, we examine the productivity dynamics of Dutch...
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accomplished by an in-depth study of an historical case; the downsizing process undertaken in the 1920s by the Swedish Tobacco … reducing headcount and, consequently, the diversity of downsizing processes. …
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This paper presents the problem of workers lay off and loss along with their exit from the organization its key competencies - skills and knowledge. Importance of management of key competencies was described. The paper also presents outplacement as a way to maintain core competencies even during...
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income insecurity to the proliferation of informal enterprise through job insecurity in selected SSA countries. The study …, Kenya and the DRC. The analyses suggested that income insecurity exist in the form of significant seasonal variations in … months as compared to employment in the busiest months. Thus a link is established between income insecurity and job …
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Being able to read and write is one of the most important skills in modern economies. Literacy frequently is a prerequisite for employment and its relevance for productivity and wages is magnified by the fact that it is only through literacy that many other skills become usable. More so than for...
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context. However work life conflict remained significant in the empirical analysis. Work impacts family in more ways than vice …
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-training wages. Having this into consideration, this paper aims to evaluate the effects of trainings on the Romanian migrants’ income …
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This paper investigates the determinants of interregional migration in Italy for the period 1985-2006, during which different migration trends took place. In so doing, in addition to the traditional variables of Harris and Todaro model, the impact of housing prices and externalities variables...
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that the net state in-migration rate was an increasing function of median family income or expected median family income on … of the presence of state individual income taxation. …
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rate and white income levels, whereas black migration should be a function of black unemployment rates and black income … per recipient (arguably because such states do less income redistribution) whereas black migrants prefer to move to higher … welfare states (where the welfare serves as a form of higher income and/or a form of higher unemployment insurance). …
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