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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Labor Sociology"”.
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The employment requirements of disabled persons : a study of the development of state supported employment provision.
This thesis deals with the historical background concerning the development of disability-related employment measures and the employment exclusion experienced by disabled persons. In particular, the enquiry focuses upon the early post-war period up until the introduction in 1997 of the New Deal for …
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Changes in tenure-earnings profiles and implicit contracts in managerial labor markets
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Characteristics and Determinants of French Strikes: A Study of Industrial Conflict, 1946--1976
This dissertation studies the characteristics and the determinants of French strikes in the post-World War II period. Strikes are but one of many forms of conflict. Strikes are collective and overt in nature.
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Substitution of food away from home for the wife's housework time
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Worker behavior and motivation in employee-owned firms: Evidence from Brazil and the U.S
… go in and output comes out. Differences in labor productivity between firms are mainly due to technological constraints facing the firm."
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Economic progress and international mobility of human resources: Chinese immigrants in the United States labor market
… substantial assimilation into the U.S. labor market during the 1980s.
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Employment adjustment in steel industry: The U.S. and Japan compared
This study purports to compare employment adjustment process in steel industry between the U.S. and Japan in the period 1974-1988. In response to production decline after the Oil Shock of 1973, Japanese steel companies reduced working hours, but not employment. In the 1980s, however, they adopted a …
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Market substitutes for housework: Variations in use
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of mother's marital and employment status on expenditures for time-saving durables and services. The theoretical framework of this study was derived from the household production model. Data were taken from the 1988-89 Consumer Expenditure Survey. …
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Child care arrangements and mothers' employment choices
… care are predicted with variables affecting labor force participation, child care need and cost, and preferences. In the second analysis, choices among parental, relative, sitter and group care are predicted for employed mothers.
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Gender, occupation, and time allocation for market work, commuting, and housework
The objectives of this study were to investigate the determinants of employed women's allocation of time for housework, market work, and commuting; to compare the time allocation by women and men in relation to their hourly wages; and also to compare the time allocation of women in male-dominated …
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An urban equilibrium model of spatial mismatch
… that there is a spatial dimension to the poor labor market outcomes of urban black residents has been understood for approximately thirty years. It was first put forth in the economic literature by Kain (1968) and has generated a consistent stream of discussion. Recently, in light of the …
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Higher level manpower development in Indonesia: Rates of return and embodied technical change
This study consists of basic research on rates of return to higher education in Indonesia. Four different techniques to estimate rates of return are employed: the pure internal rate of return, the Mincer earnings function, the Cobb-Douglas production function, and the nested-CES production …
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Towards an economic theory of strikes: Further evidence from Brazilian data
We analyse the history of the labor movement in Brazil since the beginning of its industrialization, with particular emphasis on the legislation governing labor disputes. A data set on strike activity for that country during the period between 1983 and 1993 is first analysed at the descriptive …
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The Supreme Court and labor policy: A rational choice perspective
… the development of public policy in general, and labor policy in particular, has been the subject of substantial research. Most of this research, however, has been mainly normative, with little attention been paid to the political context in which the Court operates. This dissertation attempts to …
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The Effect of the Decline in Occupational Segregation on Sex Differences in Earnings Among Professional and Technical Workers: 1971-1981
This study examines the effect of the large decline in occupational segregation on sex differences in earnings among professional and technical workers between 1971-1981. The analyses are based upon data from the Annual Demographic Files of the Current Population Survey for 1972 and 1982. Contrary …