El objetivo de este trabajo es realizar una revisión de los principales cambios en la estructura ocupacional y las condiciones laborales de la fuerza de trabajo en las áreas rurales de México. A partir de la información de la Muestra del Censo General de Población y Vivienda del año 2000 y...

Este artículo tiene como propósito general presentar y discutir algunos de los elementos que in- terrelacionados, permiten aproximarse al fenómeno del trabajo infantil. Así, no se busca exponer un panorama cuantitativo de la situación de niñas, niños y adolescentes (NNA) que trabajan,...

The purpose of this article is to understand how academics in management deal with the concept of generation in workplace. A conceptual framework of generational diversity was elaborated through an interdisciplinary literature analysis. Four levels of analysis (society, career, organization and...

The analysis of labour market participation is useful for formulating employment and human resource development policies. Females form almost more than half of the total population in Pakistan play a very important role in the country. The present study endeavors to estimate the various factors...

This paper explores the question of how immigrant employees affect a firm's capacity to absorb foreign knowledge. Using matched employer-employee data from Denmark for the years 1996 to 2009, we are able to show that non-Danish employees from technologically advanced countries contribute...

In Deutschland lebten laut Statistischem Bundesamt im Jahr 2012 rund 16 Millionen Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund. Knapp jede fünfte Erwerbsperson hat ihre Wurzeln in einem anderen Land. Die Zahlen zeigen, wie bedeutend die kulturelle Vielfalt für den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt ist. Vor diesem...

Der Einfluss der kulturellen Diversität innerhalb der Belegschaft auf den betrieblichen Erfolg ist kontextabhängig. Kulturelle Vielfalt innerhalb der Belegschaft wirkt per se weder förderlich noch hinderlich. Dies ist das Ergebnis einer empirischen Auswertung von...

After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the result of two set of reasons. First, several of the...

The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk-averse constituents, into British workplaces. It argues that given unions' role in minimising risk, membership should have been boosted. The paper reviews different strands of the...