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Impacts of Current Global Economic Crisis on Asia’s Labor Market
Huynh, Phu; Kim, Kee Beom; Sziraczki, Gyorgy - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the …, and remittances data to assess the employment and social consequences of the crisis, including falling demand for labor … provides some projections of the impact on unemployment, vulnerable employment, working poverty, and labor productivity in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694251
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Capital Flows and Demographics; An Asian Perspective
Lueth, Erik - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
emerge, when labor forces change according to the 2007 UN population projections. It finds that demographic factors are no … with the yen carry-trade; and that China is key to understanding Asia's demographic impact on the world. It also finds that … Asia offers the greatest arbitrage opportunities worldwide during the demographic transition and has the greatest potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768978
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The Welfare State of the Civil (or Public) Servants in Europe: A Comparison of the Pension Systems for Civil (or Public) Servants in France, Great Britain, and Germany
Rothenbacher, Franz - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2004
The civil service in Europe has been undergoing profound changes since the 1980s. Two major developments are responsible for these changes: first, the high budget deficits of governments, and second, the demographic changes causing the share of pensioners to increase. These challenges have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754815
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Educational Expansion and Returns to Education. A Comparative Study on Germany, France, the UK, and Hungary.
Brauns, Hildegard; Müller, Walter; Steinmann, Susanne - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1997
The paper proposes an empirical examination of the consequences of educational expansion and reform in four European countries in terms of school-leavers' labour market chances. The empirical analyses focus on the returns to higher education on the one side and vocational qualification as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040546
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Education and Unemployment: Patterns of Labour Market Entry in France, the United Kingdom and Germany
Brauns, Hildegard; Gangl, Markus; Scherer, Stefani - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1999
"Over the last two decades, youth unemployment emerged as one of the major problems of many contemporary European societies. As educational achievement is regularly claimed to prevent labour market exclusion, this paper explores the educational stratification of unemployment in early labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040550
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Does Education matter? France and Germany in Comparative Perspective
Brauns, Hildegard; Steinmann, Susanne; Kieffer, Annick; … - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1997
The paper builds on a French-German comparison on how individuals education and their social class position are related to each other. Labour force surveys from the early 1970s and 1990s are used as the empirical basis. We analyze patterns of occupational stratification by education from three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040551
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The historical evolution of accounting in China (novissima sinica): effects of culture (2nd part).
Solas, Cigdem; Ayhan, Sinan - In: De Computis "Revista Española de Historia de la … (2008) 8, pp. 138-163
Este artículo intenta explicar los criterios que sustentan la idea de que la contabilidad China ha sido conformada durante el pasado siglo con arreglo a factores culturales, económicos y políticos. Asimismo se propone estudiar los fenómenos históricos experimentados por la contabilidad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061730
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Clinical Research in Britain, 1950–1980: Volume 7
UCL, The Wellcome Trust Centre for History of Medicine WTC - eSocialSciences - 2008
The growth of clinical research in the UK since the Second World War is examined, including the 1953 Cohen Report and the subsequent creation of the Medical Research Council’s Clinical Research Board. Lord Walton of Detchant, as Chairman, guided the discussion on the inter-relationships...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699358
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Educational Reform in France, West-Germany, the United Kingdom and Hungary: Updating the CASMIN Educational Classification
Brauns, Hildegard; Steinmann, Susanne - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1997
In empirical education and labour market research, different approaches for measuring education have been pursued; they reach from number of years of schooling and educational scoring as continuous measures to typologies as ISCED and the CASMIN classification as categorical approaches. The value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005553274
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Theories of the Family and Policy
Jacobsen, Veronica; Fursman, Lindy; Bryant, John; … - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2004
predispositions and can be difficult to influence through policy. Sociology emphasises the role of social norms but recognises that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464968