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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the offshoring-employment relationship under globalization in Korean … offshoring have a significantly negative effect on employment in export-specialized industries. In contrast, there is a non … offshoring-employment relationship. Originality/value – Major contribution of this paper is that it sheds new light on the effect …
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particular region over time. Using the entropy method, employment diversity indices are computed for the 50 states and the … found to be relatively diversified in terms of employment over the period of study. However, there is a decreasing …
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The effect of the relative supply of Hispanics on the relative earnings of Blacks in US labour markets is examined. The data source for the empirical estimates is the March 1988 Current Population Survey . The results support one of the key features of the Becker model of discrimination, amely,...
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Employers in the USA often use employment‐at‐will statements in the employment application process to minimize their … suggest that applicants would prefer to join organizations that do not include employment‐at‐will statements in the … of company concern regarding its employees would significantly influence their views of an employment …
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Provides a review of the methodologies used to evaluate various US‐implemented employment and training programmes …
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Argues that the high job mobility observed most prominently among workers in Japanese firms is consistent with the behaviour of risk‐averse individuals when neither private nor public income insurance is widely available to displaced workers. Laissez faire is suboptimal and involves higher job...
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Affirmative action in the USA, and employment equity in Canada, are policy frameworks that have developed through the … discrimination in employment. Managing diversity, in contrast, is a voluntary initiative by corporate decision makers, at the level …
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improving the employment opportunities of low‐income Americans. This essay provides new findings from the US labour market and …
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The change in the share of skilled occupations in total employment is broken down into changes in the skill intensities … of industries weighted by their shares in employment, changes in the shares of industries in employment weighted by their …
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