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Globalisation, industrial revolutions in India and China and labour markets in advanced countries: implications for national and international economic policy
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
giant fast-growing countries, China and India, with the liberalised global economy. The integration is taking place under … of the global labour force with India and China’s recent integration with the international economy may have profoundly … its technological leadership. In relation to policy, the underlying question examined here is whether India and China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258097
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Child Deprivation: An Extended Approach to Child Labour
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The present paper imparts that it is need of the hour to take a broader view of child labour to include not only the reportedly working children but also those nowhere children, namely those neither reported working nor attend school. In line with the perspectives of human capital, human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113648
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Metodologia - O Sector Informal em Moçambique: Resultados do Primeiro Inquérito Nacional (2005)
Calzaroni, Manlio; Cappiello, Antonio; Della Rocca, Giorgio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837422
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Pragmatic identity and alterity in political discourse
Boicu, Ruxandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The article analyzes a sample of political discourse, namely the speech entitled “We Want Our Country Back”, delivered by the British nationalist, MEP, Ashley Mote. In the communication situation, the audience is made up of conservative, right-wing politicians or supporters, mainly readers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259753
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¿Quiénes son los NiNis en México?
Arceo-Gómez, Eva Olimpia; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The objective of this paper is to characterize the population between 15 and 19 years of age in Mexico which does not study and does not work (NiNi). We use the population censuses for 1990, 2000 and 2010, income and expenditure household surveys from 1992 to 2010, and labor surveys from 2005 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260224
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Evolução do mercado de trabalho informal no Estado do Paraná
Staduto, Jefferson Andronio Ramundo; Joner, Paulo Roberto; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article aims to analyze the evolution of the informal sector of labor in Paraná State – Brazil – between the 1992 – 2005, highlighting its spatial dimensions, sectoral and demographical. The Paraná State was divided in two regions: Metropolitan (MR) and Non-Metropolitan (NMR). It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260646
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Especially vulnerable groups in EU and Serbian labor market
Andrei, Jean; Saša, Stefanovic - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper analyzes the situation of especially vulnerable groups both in EU and in the Serbian labour market. They include Roma as particularly vulnerable ethnic minority, refugees and displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija (IDPs) and people with disabilities. The results of the analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370839
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Do pension wealth, pension cost and the nature of pension system affect coverage? Evidence from a country where pay-as-you-go and funded systems coexist
Carpio, Miguel Angel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper proposes a nested model, based on an additive random utility model, to analyze whether pension wealth and pension cost affect the probability that a worker affiliates to a pension program, and to observe differentiated effects regarding the nature of the pension system (pay-as-you-go...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372632
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Child Labour and Inequality
Fioroni, Tamara; D'Alessandro, Simone - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two types of workers, low- and high-skilled. This heterogeneity allows an endogenous analysis of inequality generated by child labour. More specifically, according to empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108042
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Social psychology and gender efficiency wage gap
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Our paper introduces the dimension of social psychology in a model of efficiency wages and gender diversity. In this context, we show that women earn lower wages than men but provide in return relatively less effort. Therefore in order to increase women's productivity, the firm increases their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108387