islands. Design/methodology/approach – Several studies relating to the employment and skills environment of human resource … employment, service and product quality. Further, while sourcing and recruitment of staff, employee retention, training and …

’ relative earnings and employment have changed in post–North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Mexico (1995-2011). Design … inequality and employment in the manufacturing sector in post-NAFTA Mexico. Findings The results reveal that the manufacturing … sectors that produce for the export market tend to pay among the lowest wages and yet employ around half of the manufacturing …

employment contribution of firms over the same period. Finds that total employment in high technology firms declined over this … period. However, the employment contribution of small high technology firms, particularly those engaged in technology …‐based services activities increased. The employment contribution of this group was unable to offset the major employment losses made …

Discusses the increase in self‐employment in the UK over the past decade. Presents the results of a cross …‐sectional, comparative, static analysis of the determinants of self‐employment using data on the UK counties. The results suggest that … greater attention should be paid to non‐economic factors for self‐employment.  …

programme and their ultimate employment aspirations through a novel data mining technique. The study considered what … education programme, with work statuses of full-time, part-time or unemployed and have known aspirations to either employment or … self-employment. The Classification and Ranking Belief Simplex (CaRBS) technique is employed in the classification analyses …

seasonal context. Tourism employment in Canada is profiled and its seasonality examined in Atlantic Canada, where seasonal … tourism employment is common. A model for managing seasonality in employment is proposed as a continuum, ranging from … research is planned in Atlantic Canada’s accommodations sector, testing the model for managing seasonal tourism employment.  …

Despite the renowned poor employment practices across the hospitality industry recent analysis of the Workplace …