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Welfare Magnets, Border Effects or Policy Regulations: What Determinants Drive Migration Flows into the EU?
Peridy, Nicolas J - In: Global Economy Journal 6 (2006) 4
In recent years, there has been a lack of empirical work devoted to the explanation of migration patterns into the … European Union with the exception of country specific studies. At the same time, migration theories have undergone a … considerable renewal, which has led to the development of new variables for explaining migration decisions. Three of them are of …
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Job Shadowing in Information Technology Projects: A Source of Competitive Advantage
Sohani, Shrihari S. - In: International Journal of Information Technology Project … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 47-57
High-value turnkey projects in Information Technology firms are susceptible to multiple risks. Inappropriate staffing is one of the major risks that can impact deliverable negatively. The greatest fallacy that comes up is the incongruence between HR managers and line managers while staffing...
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The Labor Market Value of Health Improvements
Bhattacharya, Jay; Lakdawalla, Darius Noshir - In: Forum for Health Economics & Policy 9 (2006) 2
We analyze the value to the labor force of improvements in survival and health over the years 1970 to 1999. We find that survival gains and reductions in the number of work-days missed due to poor health have added about 8 percent to the remaining labor force value of black males, and about the...
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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI – Recent Advances and Research Gaps
Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 1, pp. 86-116
Summary The last decade has been shaped by dramatic developments in international trade, international investment and production, both in terms of the scale of events and in terms of their qualitative nature. Intriguing questions have been thrown up concerning the labor market impact of these...
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Fragil und prekär? Private Care-Arbeit in der Schweiz / Insecure and precarious? Private care work in Switzerland
Hettlage, Raphaela; Baghdadi, Nadia - In: Arbeit 22 (2013) 3, pp. 212-223
Abstract Als Folge der verstärkten Erwerbsorientierung und der demographischen Veränderungen werden individuelle Care-Verpflichtungen zunehmend ausgelagert und statt als Familienarbeit im Rahmen von marktlich organisierten Care-Arrangements bearbeitet. Die Care-Arbeiterinnen sind oftmals...
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A New Approach of Dynamic Load Balancing Scheduling Algorithm for Homogeneous Multiprocessor System
Alam, Mahfooz; Varshney, Ankur Kumar - In: International Journal of Applied Evolutionary … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 61-75
Load balancing of parallel tasks in homogeneous as well as heterogeneous systems are major trouble for researches of both industry and academia. Load balancing were broadly classified into two categories namely static load balancing and dynamic load balancing. Nowadays, numerous of researches...
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Combined Heat and Power Dispatch using Hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Biogeography-based Optimization
Roy, Provas Kumar; Ghosh, Madhumita - In: International Journal of Energy Optimization and … 6 (2017) 1, pp. 49-65
theory of biogeography and is inspired by the two concepts, namely migration of species between “islands” via flotsam, wind …
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Solving OPF Problems using Biogeography Based and Grey Wolf Optimization Techniques
Das, Puja; Banerjee, Subrata; Roy, Provas Kumar; … - In: International Journal of Energy Optimization and … 6 (2017) 3, pp. 55-77
This paper presents biogeography-based optimization (BBO) and grey wolf Optimization(GWO) for solving the multi-constrained optimal power flow (OPF) problems in the power system. In this paper, the proposed algorithms have been tested in 9-bus system under various conditions along with IEEE 30...
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Towards A Virtual Machine Migration Algorithm Based On Multi-Objective Optimization
Chen, Xiang; Tang, Jun-rong; Zhang, Yong - In: International Journal of Mobile Computing and … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 79-89
-configuration caused by system computation resource status changing and load fluctuation. Based on migration objectives as QoS (Quality of … Service), resource competition and energy consumption, the VM migration time, migration objective node selection and VM … migration destination host selection. Experiment results show that the multi-objective optimization management method with …
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The Systems Forum: What Value Have Systems Ideas in Making Sense of The Complexity of Issues Like Migration?
Stowell, Frank; Roderick, Ian - In: International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS) 3 (2016) 2, pp. 50-73
session was ‘migration'. …
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