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The political economy of child labor
Maffei, Alessandro - 2005
Kinderarbeit ist besonders in Entwicklungsländern ein weit verbreitetes Phänomen. In den letzten Jahren entwickelte … sich eine weit verzweigte ökonomische Literatur, welche sich mit dem Problem der Kinderarbeit beschäftigt. Im ersten Teil … gegeben, wobei ich im Vorfeld zunächst Fakten über die Verbreitung von Kinderarbeit und deren verschiedenen Facetten …
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Globalization and child labor
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2010
Dieses Buch untersucht die Auswirkungen von Globalisierung auf Kinderarbeit sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus … Evidenz über die Formen und Verbreitung von Kinderarbeit, und skizziert den internationalen Regelrahmen, in dem … Kinderarbeitsstandards festgelegt werden. Nach einem Literaturüberblick über die unterschiedlichen ökonomischen Gründe für Kinderarbeit …
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Child labor and multinational conduct : a comparison of international business and stakeholder codes
Kolk, A.; Tulder, R. van - 2002
Increasing attention to the issue of child labor has been reflected in codes of conduct that emerged in the past decade in particular. This paper examines the way in which multinationals, business associations, governmental and non-governmental organizations deal with child labor in their codes....
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Assessing Quality Improvement Infrastructure in the Formation of Accountable Care Organizations: A Regional Policy Analysis for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Carr-Whealy, Nathan - 2011
Accountable Care Organizations are developing in the United States as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A study is needed to evaluate an emerging issue of ACOs, quality improvement infrastructure, and the pharmaceutical industry. The convergence of these topics has not...
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Unethical secrets, lies and legal retaliation in the context of corporate restructuring in the United States
Clark, Gordon - 1990
Corporate restructuring is normally analyzed with reference to economic imperatives and the inherited geographical structure of production. The economic landscape is assumed to be the consequence of private decisions made in response to these structural factors. If understanding and empirically...
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Price shocks and the components of urban inflation
Clark, Gordon L. - 1984
In a previous study of US city inflation, I emphasized the temporal regularities of urban price inflation. But, despite these identified regularities, it is apparent that the process of inflation is rarely so regular and so systematic. Unanticipated shocks in three components, energy food, and...
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Fluctuations and rigidities in local labor markets, part 1: theory and evidence
Clark, Gordon L. - 1983
Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven US cities over the period 1972 - 1980. Conventional neoclassical discrete-exchange models of the labor market are shown to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the...
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