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Main features of the labour policy in Portugal
Moniz, António B.; Woll, Tobias - Centro de Investigação em Inovação Empresarial e do … - 2007
In this working paper is presented information on the Portuguese labour market developed with the support of the European project WORKS-“Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society”. Is still a on the process article and thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731583
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Main features of the labour policy in Portugal
Moniz, António; Woll, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this working paper is presented information on the Portuguese labour market developed with the support of the European project WORKS-“Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society”. Is still a on the process article and thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790119
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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480477
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Insiders, Non-Market Activity and Unemployment.
Lye, J.N.; McDonald, I.M.; Sibly, H. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1996
The paper extends the theory of trade unions. In past studies, the union members derive utility exclusively from the consumption of goods produced in markets. We consider the case where the union insider is a member of a household which derives utility both from market produced goods and from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005587625
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233784
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Union Power, Minimum Wage Legislation, Endogenous Labor Supplies and Production
Cardona, Daniel; Losada, Fernando Sanchez - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2003
The objective of this work is to study the impact of the unions bargaining power on production and wages. We present a model where a competitive final good is produced through two substitutable intermediate goods, one produced by unskilled labor and the other by skilled labor. Potential workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005176423
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Problematic Aspects of Women Employment in Slovakia in Comparing with Visegrad Countries
Jakubíková, Emilia; Siničáková, Marianna - In: Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education (2009), pp. 22-34
In comparing with other Visegrad countries, Slovakia has since 1990 permanent difficulties to reach and maintain high level of employment. High unemployment used to be traditionally in Poland, too. Other two Visegrad countries, the Czech Republic and Poland used to reach much better economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969190
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Desigualdades de género en el mercado laboral: un problema actual
Bonet, María Antonia Ribas - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències … - 2004
This paper analyses the main distinctive features of the situations of labour discrimination that women are actually suffering. Men and women play different roles at home, in society and at work. A strong occupational segregation (horizontal and vertical) and serious wage differences between men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005773029
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Atypische Beschäftigung in Europa 1996-2009
Schmeißer, Claudia; Stuth, Stefan; Behrend, Clara; … - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012
Um die Wirkung atypischer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse auf Struktur und Ausmaß sozialer Ungleichheit abschätzen zu können, zeichnet das vorliegende Discussion Paper für 20 europäische Länder nach, wie sich atypische Beschäftigung im Vergleich zu regulären Beschäftigungsverhältnissen...
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Inmigración y cuidados de mayores en la Comunidad de Madrid
 … - Fundación BBVA
La presente monografía muestra una mirada sobre los cuidados de las personas mayores ofrecidos por cuidadoras inmigrantes en el ámbito familiar en Madrid, en un mercado informal. A ello se llega a través de los discursos proporcionados por los actores que intervienen en ese proceso, las...
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