The Dissertation "Social Dumping: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects" consists in three logical parts, each of them analyzing the nexus labour standards - labour market outcomes - globalization. The first part, Chapter 2, is a theoretical analysis of the effects of globalization on the...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an invaluable insight into long-term forecasting of demand for aged care facilities. This will ensure the provision of adequate supply by government bodies, stakeholders and developers in order to meet the anticipated level of demand, without creating an...

Purpose – Sustainable property development has increased in market share over the past two to three years globally and locally. This research aims to analyze the drivers and barriers to sustainable property development in Melbourne using the triple bottom line (TBL) theoretical framework. The...

Purpose : This paper aims to identify and examine the determinants of downside systematic risk in Australian listed property trusts (LPTs). Design/methodology/approach : Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and lower partial moment-CAPM (LPM-CAPM) are employed to compute both systematic risk and...

Past research on labour-market skills shortages indicates that employers report skills shortages or hard-to-fill vacancies for a variety of different reasons. Nevertheless, there is some consensus that skills-shortages analysis needs to examine such shortages within the context of the local...

The sudden slump in oil production since 2001 has only heightened the question of an alternative to an economybased on oil revenues, whereas the sultanate had undergone exponential development over the three precedingdecades. From this standpoint, the policy of Omanizing the labor force...

Since 1986, Nigeria has gradually been integrating with the global economy. This paper examines the effect of globalization on employment and wages in Nigeria. The effects of globalization have been difficult to isolate and evaluate theoretically and empirically due to it multi-faceted nature,...

Unemployment in France rose steadily from the early-seventies to the mid-eighties. Since the mid-eighties it has continued to experience fluctuations around a very high average level. Equilibrium unemployment theories are a useful framework within which to account for these developments. A...

Education became one of the largest sub-system of modern societies in the past century. The role of education is no longer interpreted only as the conveyor of culture, knowledge and values, but it is also attributed a significant role in its contribution to economic development and the promotion...