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The Employment Cycles of Neighboring Cities
Wall, Howard J. - 2011
This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126966
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Risk Management Standards: Towards a contemporary, organisation-wide management approach
Koutsoukis, Nikitas-Spiros - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Risk management has been progressively evolving into a systemic approach for organisational decision making in today’s dynamic economic environment of the global era. In this context, risk management is reaching beyond its traditional finance and insurance application context and is entering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113439
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Widening Gap in College Admission and Improving Equal Opportunity in South Korea
Kim, Young-Chul; Kim, Young-Joon; Loury, Glenn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As private education becomes widespread over the last decade in South Korea, the education gap among regions and social classes, noticeably widens. The recent global financial crisis exacerbates the problem as the rich continues to utilize more private education while the poor utilizes it less....
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Minority ethnic women in the Australian labour market.
Syed, Jawad; Ali, Faiza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Despite its predominant focus on gender equity, the present managing diversity discourse in Australia generally overlooks multi-racial feminist perspectives. Consequently equal opportunity legislation and practices, designed for “mainstream” Australian women, do not take into account the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620004
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Job Satisfaction of Older Workers as a Factor of Promoting Labour Market Participation in the EU: The Case of Slovenia
Aristovnik, Aleksander; Jaklič, Ksenja - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
an individual. Starting from the fact that the employment rate of older workers in Slovenia in 2011 was the lowest in the … EU, the article aims to establish the level of older workers’ job satisfaction in Slovenia compared to the EU, analyse … 2010 reveals that Slovenia ranks 15th among the EU member states in terms of older workers’ job satisfaction, thus lagging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261123
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Domestic Value Added and Employment Generated by Chinese Exports: A Quantitative Estimation
Chen, Xikang; Cheng, Leonard; Fung, K.C.; Lau, Lawrence J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
(DVA) and employment for 1995 and 2002. Total DVA generated by exports is obtained by subtracting all direct and indirect … imported intermediate goods from the gross value of exports, and total employment is obtained by adding all direct and indirect … employment generated by exports. To implement these estimations, we use hitherto unpublished Chinese government data to construct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980404
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Institutional requirements for full employment in advanced economies
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
Abstract In the 1980s, fifty years after the Great Depression industrial countries came again to be haunted with the spectre of mass unemployment. The unemployment situation, into the 1990s, continues to be dire in several European Union countries. Double digit unemployment rates are currently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107275
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Impactos da agricultura de precisão na economia brasileira
Costa, Cinthia Cabral da; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In order to estimate the potential impact of the adoption of the main techniques of precision agriculture in the Brazilian agriculture on socio economic development, this study used an extensive bibliographic review of the main results that the techniques of precision agriculture and simulated...
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Sericulture as an Employment Generating Household Industry in West Bengal
Roy, Chandan; Roy Mukherjee, Sanchari; Ghosh, Shantanu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Employment generation is one of the major potentials of Sericulture and Silk Industry in India. The farm and non …-farm activity of this sector creates sixty lakh mandays of employment every year mostly in rural sector. The industry helps to … Employment Models constructed in this paper suggest that ‘area of mulberry cultivation’, ‘cocoon-market’ and ‘power-looms’ are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107468
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Economic crisis and the role of state policies in current globalized economy. The case of Greece
Kapitsinis, Nikolaos; Metaxas, Theodore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
economy in the middle of 2008. Crisis affects negatively almost all the fields of human life like development, employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107493