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Book review of Alice R. P. Abreu (org.): Flexible production and economic governance in Latin America
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This book organized by Alice Abreu, actual President of ISA-RC30 “Sociology of Work”, is a follow up of an international seminar on the same theme of the title, held in September 1997 also in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). In this book are published papers presented on Latin American case studies,...
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Flexible equality: Men and women in employment in Japan
Shire, Karen A.; Imai, Jun - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2000
Changes in the structure and regulation of employment in Japan differentially impact men and women. The labor force … course, while men are more likely to experience unemployment at the entry and exit points to the labor market. Unemployment … gender segmented labor market, with men continuing in relatively protected and regulated standard employment and women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682584
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Microeconomic Flexibility in India and Pakistan: Employment Adjustment at the Firm Level
Chaudhry, Theresa - In: Lahore Journal of Economics 14 (2009) Special Edition, pp. 17-27
In this paper, we look at the pace at which firms adjust their employment levels as a measure of “microeconomic flexibility.” Flexibility aids in creative destruction processes,where less efficient establishments recede and dynamic firms can rapidly expand. Following the techniques used by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592664
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Microeconomic Flexibility in India and Pakistan: Employment Adjustment at the Firm Level
Chaudhry, Theresa - In: Lahore Journal of Economics 14 (2009) Special Edition, pp. 17-27
In this paper, we look at the pace at which firms adjust their employment levels as a measure of “microeconomic flexibility.” Flexibility aids in creative destruction processes,where less efficient establishments recede and dynamic firms can rapidly expand. Following the techniques used by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010562186
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Flexible equality: Men and women in employment in Japan
Shire, Karen A.; Imai, Jun - 2000
Changes in the structure and regulation of employment in Japan differentially impact men and women. The labor force … course, while men are more likely to experience unemployment at the entry and exit points to the labor market. Unemployment … gender segmented labor market, with men continuing in relatively protected and regulated standard employment and women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302331
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Does Employment Protection Inhibit Labor Market Flexibility? Lessons from Germany, France and Belgium
Abraham, Katherine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - 1993
Laws in most West European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. Many of these same countries also encourage hours adjustment in lieu of layoffs by providing prorated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763180
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Does Employment Protection Inhibit Labor Market Flexibility? Lessons from Germany, France and Belgium
Abraham, Katherine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993
Laws in most West European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. Many of these same countries also encourage hours adjustment in lieu of layoffs by providing prorated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101980
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Flexible equality : men and women in employment in Japan
Shire, Karen A.; Imai, Jun - 2000
Changes in the structure and regulation of employment in Japan differentially impact men and women. The labor force … course, while men are more likely to experience unemployment at the entry and exit points to the labor market. Unemployment … gender segmented labor market, with men continuing in relatively protected and regulated standard employment and women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512346
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Resistance to teamworking in a UK research and development laboratory
Thursfield, Denise - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 29 (2015) 6, pp. 989-1006
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Antecedents in labor economics
Gaffard, Jean-Luc - 2022
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