Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges and implications related to the integration of low-income customers into the strategy of CEMEX, one of the world's largest building materials companies. Design/methodology/approach – A case study with data from interviews of a...

Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac

The concept of “migrant workers” derives from the household registration system of China’s planned economy period. The continued existence of that system conflicts with the development of an integrated labour market. The current social security system, based on household registration and a...

This policy note offers motivation and a game plan for achieving a coherent and mutually beneficial labor migration system.1 It argues that migrant workers may make important contributions to economic growth and development in both sending and receiving countries if they find enabling...

This paper discusses the current situation facing rural female migrant workers in urban China. It is the contention of the author that grassroots NGOs show very real promise as one source of support for such women. These workers, in spite of their immeasurable contribution to the country's...

Based on the overview of concept of returning-home migrant workers’ entrepreneurship, the thesis has introduced the features of migrant workers’ entrepreneurship, as against other types of entrepreneurship, as follows. Starting from a low base and multi-level perspective; conducting...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the repatriation adjustment process of international employees in the Spanish context. The paper also aims to test the applicability of Black et al.'s repatriation adjustment model for Spanish repatriates. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports...

We address the role of migrant workers from extra-EU countries in Italian manufacturing production at the firm-level. Cross price and demand elasticities confirm the complementarity found in previous studies between migrants and natives, which holds when native workers are split into white and...