The paper aims to identify and synthetically present some factors (demographic–economic, technologic, socio-politic, educational of cross regional disparities) which produced, at the beginning of the 21st century, a series of new migration characteristics compared to previous periods, which...

By considering the legitimisation of environmental concerns in the composition of institutional spheres and in the production of social practices, I analyse the configuration of the environmental field, along with collective actions related to the recycling of solid waste in southern Brazil....

In response to the imposition of steep enough sanctions for employing illegal migrants, the firm reassigns managers from supervision of production to verification of the legality of its workforce. This impedes production efficiency, reduces wages, and hurts the native workers.

The economic crisis affected the size and quality of employment in most economic and social activities, but in different proportions. The health care sector faced a lower dynamics of employment diminution, but the personnel flows to better paid jobs continued at a higher rate than before the...

This paper studies the short and medium run impact of highly skilled immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives' wages and employment. If immigrants are relatively good substitutes for native workers, the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants'...

The economic boom concentrated attention on skill shortages in Australia and their role in preventing the economy from reaching its full potential level of output and putting pressure on inflation. This paper concentrates on the extent to which the supply of tradespersons has adjusted to changed...

The Czech economy is a small, open economy. The level of its openness can be characterized also by the high share of foreign nationals who are economically active on the Czech labour market. The current economic recession also had, of course, substantial influence on their numbers. In the first...

The mobility of labor, defined as responsiveness and adaptation of persons or groups of persons on the challenges of the social and economic environment is therefore a social phenomenon depending on time and space. A high mobility increases opportunities for workers to find a job and employers...

After the political revolution in 1989, Romania was confronted with a phenomenon that has increased in magnitude throughout the following period: external migration. It became a permanent presence of the labor market in Romania. Unfortunately, this phenomenon manifests incisively among young...