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Globalisation and Norwegian shipping policy, 1850-2000
Brautaset, Camilla; Tenold, Stig - In: Business History 50 (2008) 5, pp. 565-582
shipping industry, with particular emphasis on demand (the market for shipping services), labour and capital. In particular, we …The shipping industry has been called 'the first globalised industry'. In this paper we analyse how domestic … regulations have shaped the adaptations of ship owners in Norway, one of the leading providers of international shipping services …
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Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience
Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 2, pp. 08-12
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Driving Force: Labour Struggles and Violation of Rights in Maruti Suzuki India Limited
Rights, PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic - eSocialSciences - 2013
As reports of severe harassment of Maruti workers and their families trickled in in late July 2012, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) undertook a fact finding investigation into the incident, its context and implications. [PUDR]....
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Work and Development.
Bruton, H; Fairris, D. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1998
Are workers' interests regarding working conditions adequately refelcted in workplace outcomes during the process of development? This paper spells out a framework of analysis -- based on the criteria of efficiency, justice, and well-being-- by which we might arrive ar answers to this question....
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Universal Health Coverage and the Challenge of Informal Employment: Lessons from Developing Countries
Bitran, Ricardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
The aim of the report is to review existing approaches and available policy options to improve access to health care services and financial protection against health shocks for informal-sector workers (ISWs). Along with their families, ISWs represent the majority of the population in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829326
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Trends in Australian Agriculture
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia - 2005
This research paper examines some of the key trends in Australia’s agriculture sector over the last 20 years or so. While continuing to grow in absolute terms, the size and importance of agriculture has declined relative to the rest of the economy. Within the sector, there have been marked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008463015
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Understanding the South China Sea: An explorative cultural analysis
Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Mediterranean Sea, lessons will be drawn from the "longue durée" of history, as analysed by French historian Fernand Braudel and …
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Flying with the Crane-Recapturing KMVS’s Ten-Year Journey
Ramachandran, Vimala; Saihjee, Aarti - eSocialSciences - 2009
their history, context, evolution, and experiences since its emergence in 1989. Additionally, it is also an attempt to …
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Family Planning as ‘Liberation’: The Ambiguities of ‘Emancipation From Biology’ in Keralam
Devika, J - eSocialSciences - 2010
problematise the tradition/modernity binary that too often organises the writing of the history of 20th century Malayalee society …
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Has Something Survived ? Transfers and Analogies at Work in Henry L. Moore's Work on Wages.
Le Gall, P. - Centre de recherche de mathématiques et économie … - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to focus on Henry L. Moore's transfers from the natural sciences that enabled him to shape statistical economics. This construction led him to search statistical methods that could help him to bridge the data-theory gap, and I should like to analyze the consequences...
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