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How Germans use their time
Scheffel, Juliane - 2011
Arbeitsbedingungen der deutschen Bevölkerung auf die Allokation der Freizeit zu bestimmen. Der zweite Aufsatz untersucht, ob Arbeit zu … Arbeitsbedingungen, vernachlässigt mögliche adverse Auswirkungen auf das Sozialleben und die Gesundheit. Der dritte Artikel untersucht …, diesen Arbeitsbedingungen schon über einen längeren Zeitraum ausgesetzt zu sein. Abschließend untersucht der vierte Aufsatz …
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Benevolent benefactor or insensitive regulator? Tracing the role of government policies in the development of India's automobile industry
East-West Center, Honolulu - Technische Universität Harburg / …
The impressive and sustained growth of India's automobile industry in recent years has catapulted it into the league of the world's top-seven producers of four-wheelers. In the past decade, its exports have surged more than 25 percent a year on average. The turning point was arguably the 1991...
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Costs and prices, corporate competitive strategies and regions
Clark, Gordon L. - 1993
This paper makes a number of contributions to our understanding of industrial restructuring and regional adjustment. A distinction is made between restructuring and economic growth and development, with the author arguing that restructuring is more than autonomous economic change; it is a process...
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Cutting the String of Control: Managerial ‘Retreat’ During Plant Closures
Wigblad, Rune; Townsend, Keith J.; Hansson, Magnus; … - 2007
In nine cases of firms which closed, productivity increases were experienced after negotiations with the affected employees were finalised, up until the final day. This productivity change is known as ‘the closedown effect’. Possible explanations for this effect reveals, contrary to the...
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MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF DECENT WORK-ILO
LARION, Alina - 2013
The International Labor Organization was founded in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles, which has as its mission the development of policy and programs for tions that work and employment opportunities. Its main objectives are to promote rights at work, promoting access to decent jobs,...
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A CENTENARY OF EFFORTS AND IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORK ORGANIZATION
LARION, Alina Paula - 2019
Year 2019 marks 100 years since the founding of the International Labour Organization, one of the oldest international organizations. This organization is dedicated to promoting social justice and respect for human rights, especially internationally recognized right to work, advancing the idea...
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Economic Performance in Post-Crisis Korea: A Critical Perspective on Neoliberal Restructuring
Crotty, James; Lee, Kang-Kook - 2001
This paper evaluates the neoliberal economic restructuring process implemented in Korea following the 1997 Asian financial crisis. We first argue that the austerity macroeconomic policy of late 1997 and early 1998 was the main cause of the economic collapse in 1998, and that the decision of the...
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The Correlates of Rentier Returns in OECD Countries
Jayadev, Arjun; Epstein, Gerald - 2007
This paper examines the correlates of rentier returns – returns to the ownership of financial assets -- in a sample of OECD countries between 1960 and 2000. We develop a simple bargaining model among three classes – industrial capitalists, rentiers and workers – and show that rentier...
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The stamp of neoliberalism on the UK tonnage tax and the implications for British seafaring
Gekara, V - 2010
one that panders to, and is constrained by, neoliberalism. …
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