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This paper examines the incidence of worker displacement in Australia between 1984 and 1996. Similar to recent international studies a particular focus is on whether job security declined between the 1980s and 1990s. It is found that a significant, but apparently temporary, increase in the...
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attitudes? This paper investigates this issue using data from a nationwide survey of 1,176 Russian workers conducted in April … 1995. We focus on the two primary types of ownership change in Russia: the privatization of existing state … attitudes of workers are significant when comparing new and old firms, but less so when comparing privatized to state …
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This study, on the impact of privatization on dismissed workers in Turkey, is the first of its kind. It is based on … interviews with dismissed workers in the cement and petrochemicals sectors. Sevred workers suffered significant earning losses … upon re-employment. These losses amounted to an average of 61 per cent for the cement and 57 percent for the Petkim workers …
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seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is rising, both absolutely and as proportion of labour force … Globalisation Index, it is observed that except the developed countries, pace and levels of globalisation are affecting the labour … mechanism and improving social security for workers must therefore precede global integration of the economy. …
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impact of regional labour markets. By using a panel of 329 Polish largest firms during the period 1997-2001, we find evidence … in state firms are highly responsive to regional labour market conditions, while firms in other sectors are not. Rent …
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LEHD Infrastructure Files provide a detailed and comprehensive picture of workers, employers, and their interaction in the …
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This special issue contributes to the emerging literature on digitalization and its impact on work and workers in … the use of digital communication technologies and power relationships, working conditions of online workers or crowd-workers … digitalization and labour which has thus far tended to examine large and higher income countries mainly in the global North. This …
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