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Foreign migrant labour in southern africa; studies on accumulation in the labour reserves, demand determinants and supply relationships.
Clarke, Duncan G - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1977
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the migrant worker labour market in Southern Africa - provides a theoretical framework for economic analysis of demand determinants and supply relationships in an economy of surplus labour supply, discusses development policy considerations and forms part of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966017
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Labour market of bachue Brazil.
Mhc, Rato; SL, Braganca - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1980
ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on the labour market of Brazil - discusses theoretical aspects of labour market and labour law, effects of government's wage policy, minimum wage laws, underemployment, unemployment, labour market segmentation, labour demand and labour supply in the agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966462
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Empirische Erfahrungen, Versichertenverhalten zu steuern
Osmers, Henning; Vauth, Christoph - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2004
empirical inquiries. Researchers have found that mismanagement is often a consequence of misplaced incentives. This paper tries … incentives. An introduction is given as a short overview of the healthcare sector with its economical specialties. This is … followed by an outline of some well established contract models and their effect on the demander’s incentives. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464729
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Why Has Work Effort Become More Intense?
Green, Francis - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2002
Effort-biased technological change and other explanations for work intensification are investigated. It is hypothesised that technological and organizational changes are one important source of work intensification and supportive evidence is found using establishment data for Britain in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763235
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009
through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for … almost all benefit recipients, but weak work incentives exist for those receive Housing Benefit, and for primary earners in … couples who have low earnings. Recent reforms to strengthen work incentives have altered the in-work tax credits, rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502569
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A question of incentive? Lionel Robbins and Dennis H. Robertson on the nature and determinants of the supply of labour
Spencer, David - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 12 (2005) 2, pp. 261-278
This paper compares two articles by Lionel Robbins (1930) and by Dennis H. Robertson (1921) on the topic of labour supply. Robertson's article is shown to anticipate the main results of Robbins's seminal article. Yet, Robertson covers a number of other issues (e.g. constraints on hours worked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005505362
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Ältere Arbeitslose am Scheideweg zwischen Erwerbsleben und Ruhestand: Gründe für ihren Rückzug vom Arbeitsmarkt
Wübbeke, Christina - In: Journal of Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 1, pp. 61-82
East Germany. Copyright Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 2013 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010638901
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Ältere Arbeitslose am Scheideweg zwischen Erwerbsleben und Ruhestand: Gründe für ihren Rückzug vom Arbeitsmarkt
Wübbeke, Christina - In: TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of … 46 (2013) 1, pp. 61-82
East Germany. Copyright Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 2013 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634267
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The Economics of Recycling In France: Institutional Framework And Technological Adoption
Godard, Olivier; Defeuilley, Christophe - HAL - 1997
France in 1992. A description of the institutional organisation is provided. Then, the paper analyses how the packaging tax … implemented in France may allow the optimal application of recycling techniques, combined with waste-to-energy facilities …. Nevertheless, this optimal utilisation is lessened by weak or even negative incentives which may lead to a sub-optimal equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372638
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The Characteristics of Individual Analysts' Forecasts in Europe
BOLLIGER, Guido - Swiss Finance Institute - 2001
This study investigates the determinants of European financial analysts’ forecasts differential accuracy. We find that European financial analysts forecast accuracy is positively associated with analyst firm specific experience and the number of companies covered by the analysts. Forecast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771803