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Pioneering the Human Development Revolution: Analysing the Trajectory of Mahbub ul Haq
Gasper, Des - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 12 (2011) 3, pp. 433-456
effective leadership in promoting more ethical socio-economic development. This article reviews Pioneering the Human Development … Intellectual History Project to examine Haq's contributions in terms of four aspects of leadership: articulating and applying … vision, including through better integration of human security thinking, if it is to retain the leadership role it acquired …
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Women workers, unions and industrial sectors in North America.
SC, Eaton - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1992
Covers the period from 1960 to 1990. Briefly reviews trends in the agriculture, construction, health care, public, education and clerical sectors.
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Turkish Women in Trade Union Leadership
YİRMİBEŞOĞLU, Gözde - In: Ekonomik Yaklasim 19 (2008) 69, pp. 67-88
This study aims at exploring the barriers against women to reach the high-ranked positions of trade unions in Turkey. Similar to many developing countries, Turkish women are involved in low status and irregular jobs. Moreover, women are not represented equally with men in paid employment. As a...
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Loyalty and Power in Union–Party Alliances: Labor Politics in Postcommunism
Avdagic, Sabina - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies - 2004
Abstract Europe's 'political space,' its dimensionality and its impact on European policies have received increased academic attention lately. Yet, one very basic element of this political space, the party composition of EU member states' governments, has never been studied in a systematic way...
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Organizing Contests for Status: The Matthew Effect vs. the Mark Effect
Bothner, Matthew S.; Podolny, Joel M.; Smith, Edward Bishop - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 3, pp. 439-457
What is the best way to design tournaments for status, in which individuals labor primarily for the esteem of their peers? What process, in other words, should organizers of status-based contests impose upon those who covet peer recognition? We propose a formal model of status-based competition...
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Union Membership and Density: Some (Not So) Stylized Facts and Challenges
Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Surveying some recent data and the empirical literature from various disciplines, this paper attempts to shed some light on what we know and don't know about (trends in) unionization and its determinants in advanced countries. It shows that there are relatively few robust stylized facts, for...
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Union membership and the erosion of the Ghent system: Lessons from Finland
Böckerman, Petri; Uusitalo, Roope - EconWPA - 2005
Union density declined in Finland by more than 10 percentage points in less than ten years. This paper analyses the reasons behind the decline, using micro data from the 1990s. According to our results, the changes in the composition of the labour force and the changes in the labour market...
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Determinants of trade union membership
Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
's decision to unionise (such as social custom theory). A review of the international empirical evidence shows that business cycle …
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Union membership and density: Some (not so) stylized facts and challenges
Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Surveying some recent data and the empirical literature from various disciplines, this paper attempts to shed some light on what we know and don't know about (trends in) unionization and its determinants in advanced countries. It shows that there are relatively few robust stylized facts, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010980689
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Germany's Corporate Governance Reforms; Has the System Become Flexible Enough?
Odenius, Jürgen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This article reviews Germany's corporate governance system and the effectiveness of recent reforms. Since the early 1990s far-reaching reforms have complemented the traditional stakeholder system with important elements of the shareholder system. Instead of taking a view on the superiority of...
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