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EMCC case studies - Facing the challenges of a globalised market: Louis de Poortere
GHK Consulting Ltd - 2007
Louis de Poortere is a Belgian textiles company established in the 1920s, specialising in the manufacture of high-quality carpets for the international market. For many years, it was among the largest employers in the Belgian textiles sector, with approximately 3,000 employees in the 1970s....
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EU textiles and clothing sector: Location decisions
Sørensen, Stig Yding - 2008
In the last two decades, many western European textiles and clothing companies have moved their manufacturing activities to low-cost countries in Eastern Europe or to non-European countries (e.g. India, China), resulting in a decline in sectoral employment. This report examines the main factors...
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Study on the competitiveness, economic situation and location of production in the textiles and clothing, footwear, leather and furniture industries
Clutier, Danièle (contributor) - Institut Francais de la Mode <Paris> - 2008
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Die Zukunft der europäischen Textil-, Bekleidungs und Schuhindustrie
Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss - 2008
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Textiles and clothing : working conditions and job quality
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2014
This report gives an overview of working conditions, job quality, workers’ health and job sustainability in the textiles and clothing sector (NACE13 and 14). It is based mostly on the fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), which gathers data on working conditions and the quality of...
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Skills scenarios for the textiles, wearing apparel and leather products sector in the European Union pparel and leather products : Final report
Vogler-Ludwig, Kurt; Valente, Ana Claudia - 2009
The European textiles, clothing and leather sector (TCL) lost 40% of its production volume and 40% of its jobs at the same time within a ten year period from 1996. It had to accept continuously rising import shares from low-cost countries – China in particular. The phasing out of the Agreement...
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Structures of Education, Vocational Training and Adult Education Systems in Europe : The Netherlands ; 2003
Education Information Network in the EuropeanUnion; Eurydice - 2003
Structures of education, vocational training and adult education systems in Europe For anyone trying to understand the general organisation of education systems in Europe, these monographs set out in some 40 pages for each country, full basic and regularly updated information on its own...
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Environment-related employment in the Netherlands, 1997
Dietz, Egon; Kuipers, Rob; Salomons, Rob - 2000
In the second half of 1999 Statistics Netherlands carried out an ad hoc project on environment-related employment in … the Netherlands. The European Commission co-financed this project under the Community programme Environmental protection … and employment. Direct environment-related employment in the Netherlands estimated at least at 92,000 (end of 1997), which …
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