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Expanding the welfare system: a proposal for reform

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - In: The welfare state in Europe: Challenges and reforms, (pp. 101-117). 1998

The proposal involves the establishment of 'welfare accounts' for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

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Influence of Outplacement on the Protection of Workers Competencies

Klimczuk, Andrzej; Klimczuk-Kochańska, Magdalena - In: Aktuálne problémy podnikovej sféry 2013, (pp. 259-264). 2013

This paper presents the problem of workers lay off and loss along with their exit from the organization its key competencies - skills and knowledge. Importance of management of key competencies was described. The paper also presents outplacement as a way to maintain core competencies even during...

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Dual Labor Market

Klimczuk, Andrzej; Klimczuk-Kochańska, Magdalena - In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and …, (pp. 1-3). 2016

The dual labor market theory is one of the primary explanations for the gender differences in earnings. It shows that gender inequality and stereotypes lead to employment of men and women in different segments of the labor market characterized by various incomes. This theory is based on the...

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Emotion Work

Klimczuk, Andrzej; Klimczuk-Kochańska, Magdalena - In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and …, (pp. 1-3). 2016

Emotion work is usually defined as the psychological processes necessary to regulate emotions that are desired in specific private life conditions. When controlling the intensity and quality of the individual's feelings is related to the public sphere and undertaken for reasons associated with...

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Labor markets

Klimczuk, Andrzej - In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, (pp. 1-5). 2017

In a market economy, human work is offered and sought in the labor market. It is valued because of the level of demand for it and the rarity of the required qualifications. At the same time, because of the different contexts and conditions, there are many labor markets that are defined as the...

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Work, Domestic Work, Emotional Labour

Klimczuk, Andrzej - In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, (pp. 1-4). 2017

The concept of work can be understood as a purposeful human activity, which is focused on the processing of natural goods, items and/or information by using tools to meet tangible and intangible needs. Work is the usage of instruments to support the existence of humankind and the social world....

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Work-Family Balance

Klimczuk, Andrzej; Klimczuk-Kochańska, Magdalena - In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and …, (pp. 1-3). 2016

The concept of work–family balance was introduced in the 1970s in the United Kingdom based on a work–leisure dichotomy, which was invented in the mid-1800s. It is usually related to the act of balancing of inter-role pressures between the work and family domains that leads to role conflict....

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Employer Sanctions: A Policy with a Pitfall?

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - In: World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration, Volume 1, (pp. 205-223). 2024

This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from the supervision of production to the verification of the legality of the firm's labor...

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Dynamiken und Konsequenzen zwischen der ökonomisch-ökologischen Doppelkrise Chinas und der Bauxit-Aluminium-Industrie Ghanas

Purwins, Sebastian - In: Räumliche Transformation: Prozesse, Konzepte, …, (pp. 140-152). 2019

Harvey (1982) Krisen nicht gelöst, sondern räumlich bearbeitet werden. Ghana als Absatzmarkt und die überwiegend … Understanding' zur Entwicklung einer integrierten Bauxit-Aluminium-Industrie in Ghana. Was für China als Krisenbearbeitung … interpretiert werden kann, führt zu einer zunehmenden Inwertsetzung natürlicher Ressourcen in Ghana und dem Problem, diesen …

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Dynamics and consequences: The economic/ecological double crisis in China and the bauxite-aluminium industry in Ghana

Purwins, Sebastian - In: Spatial transformation: Processes, strategies, research …, (pp. 129-140). 2022

), crises are not solved, but rather spatially managed. Ghana as a market and the predominantly untapped bauxite reserves have … integrated bauxite-aluminium industry in Ghana. What may be interpreted as crisis management for China leads to an increased … exploitation of natural resources in Ghana and to the problem of leaving this development path. Based on field research in March …

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