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Labor Market Flexibility and FDI Flows: Evidence from Oil-Rich GCC and Middle Income Countries
Mina, Wasseem; Jaeck, Louis - 2015
In this paper we empirically examine the impact of labor market flexibility on FDI flows to oil-rich GCC and compare it to middle income countries in 2006-2011. We account for potential endogeneity and nonstationarity and adopt system GMM and IV estimation methodologies. Our findings show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015246615
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Labour Management in China: Legislation, Stratification, and Wages
Bayari, Celal - 2014
The Chinese labour market has undergone an extensive restructuring in the last four-and-a-half decades, following the start of the economic reforms, and the open door policy for foreign investment in 1978, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. The nature of employment contracts, labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015221650
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Japanese women doctors in the hospital system: Gender gap, professional burnout, and the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic.
Bayari, Celal - 2025
hospitals, is the largest employers of the of the doctors. The article provides details on the women doctors’ discontinuous … inhibitions that the pandemic placed on the careers of women doctors. The article details the nature of the chronic doctor … shortage in Japan, and professional burnout incidences among the women doctors, and how the COVID 19 pandemic intensified these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214848
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Labour-centred Politics and Judicial Institutionalisation: The Lineaments of an Early Proto-Regulatory State Model in Australia
Bayari, Celal - 2014
Australia, since the early 1980s, has been a leading advocate and practitioner of the neo-liberal economic model, also known as the Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-American) model due to its geographical origins in the UK and the US, and its subsequent ascendancy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015215085
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Minimum Wages, Market Inflexibilities, and Female Employment in Select OECD Countries
Ozturk, orgul - 2006
. That is, minimum wages are associated with not only lower participation and employment rates among women but also with …Using international and intertemporal variations in minimum wages, employment protection laws, minimum wage regulations … and female work behavior within the OECD, empirical analysis provide evidence that higher minimum wages are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015215048
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Sindicalismo: o fim do contra poder?
Sampaio, José João - 2000
unions have not been able to follow this evolution and maintain, in most of the cases, a tipical Wellfare State like …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223475
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Assessing the Sustainability of Reintegration Programs for Repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers: A Case Study of Zamboanga City, Philippines
Budlong, Deodavid; Moreno, Frede - 2024
This study assesses the sustainability of reintegration programs for repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Zamboanga City, focusing on the effectiveness of current initiatives and identifying key areas for improvement. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research combines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214509
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The Japanese Management and Production System in Australia Recruitment, Training and Bonus in Japanese Hybrid Factories
Bayari, Celal - 2011
Japanese manufacturers have reconstituted the Japanese management and production system in Australia at different levels of success since the late 1960s (Hutchinson and Nicholas 1994, Nicholas and Purcell 2001, Purcell et al. 1999). Three of the essential elements of the Japanese system,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015222746
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A Template for Analyzing and Projecting Labor Market Indicators
Abdih, Yasser; Behar, Alberto; Cevik, Serhan; Chami, Ralph - 2012
This note is a reference guide for the unemployment template, an econometric tool that allows researchers to analyze and project labor market indicators for any country with sufficient data coverage. Section I explains the motivation behind designing a new surveillance tool to study labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015258256
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A Template for Analyzing and Projecting Labor Market Indicators
Abdih, Yasser; Behar, Alberto; Cevik, Serhan; Chami, Ralph - 2012
This note is a reference guide for the unemployment template, an econometric tool that allows researchers to analyze and project labor market indicators for any country with sufficient data coverage. Section I explains the motivation behind designing a new surveillance tool to study labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015267072