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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Labor laws"”.
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Essays on international trade and investment
… essay, I study how cross-country differences in labor market institutions shape the pattern of international trade with a focus on workers' skill acquisition. I develop an open-economy model in which workers undertake non-contractible activities to acquire firm-specific skills on the job. I show …
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Assessment of Important Aspects of Human Resource Practices in Small Business Enterprises
… policy, thus they can not enforce the existing labor laws policy, laws and procedures. Based on these findings, this study recommends that there is a great need of enforcing labor laws, small business enterprises having their own human resource policy, and Government, through VETA, supporting …
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Three essays on factors influencing changes in labor and marriage markets
This dissertation addresses important topics in labor economics, with a specific emphasis on the factors influencing labor and marriage markets. Chapter 2 (joint with Xiaoyin Li) investigates the effects of the relaxation of labor laws on youth employment. The study specifically targets 16-17-year …
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The Power To Protect Themselves: Gender, Protective Labor Legislation, And Public Policy In Michigan, 1883-1913
<p>This study provides a narrative of laborers' fight for legal protection through the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Since American law was one of the most important forces in shaping and limiting workplace reform, both labor unionists and reformers used the law to try to solve labor problems. …
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Trabalho prisional e a (im)possibilidade de aplicação do regime celetista
… das Leis do Trabalho (CLT) [Consolidation of Labor Laws] rules in the context of prison work. To accomplish with the mentioned analysis, remarks concerning the emergence of labor and prison will initially be made, demonstrating their close links with the capitalist economic model; how both …
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Beyond the letter of the law : transforming labor institutions and regulations in Argentina
… the factors that lead to the transformation of labor regulations and institutions after the opening of previously closed economies, using the case of Argentina as a "crucial case". In the 1990s, almost every government in the Latin American region attempted to reform its labor code and systems …
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The Impact of Chinese Investments on the Kenyan Economy
… government has in prioritizing policies such as labor laws for the Kenyan people. The Kenyan government has a responsibility to protect its citizens from the negative impacts of Chinese investments such as unfair competition in the market. The same policies can also be used to create an …
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A Comparative Analysis of Legal Frameworks for Investments in Africa by China and the European Union
… conditions are the projects tendered; and which labor standards set the parties while the project is implemented. All reflected under the aspect of the fairest condition for African countries. The comparison figured out that the European Union with its demands for the implementation of human …
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Plights of a Pandemic: The Disconnect Between Migration, Policy, and Practice in Kuwait
Labor laws within the State of Kuwait are in need of reform. The country’s labor and residency policies create legal loopholes for exploitation, abuse, and human trafficking. The COVID-19 pandemic worsened living conditions for low-income migrant communities, exacerbating these and related …
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Thoughtful Homework or Busy Work: Impact on Student Academic Success
… because it was considered a violation of child labor laws to today when after No Child Left Behind was enacted in 2002, the focus has moved to evaluating academic success from a standardized test. Teachers are expected to fit so much learning into a day of school, that homework is used to fit in …
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Estimating Penalties for Violating the Minimum Wage and Hiring Illegal Immigrants: The Case of the U.S. Apparel Manufacturing Industry
… the United States typically violate several U.S. labor laws. Two they commonly violate are the minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the ban on hiring illegal immigrants under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The purpose of the present research was to estimate …
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Reforma trabalhista e alterações de despesas processuais: entrave ao acesso a justiça?
… expenses. The granting of free justice, in the labor field, is seen as indispensable for the realization of the right of the poorest litigant to access judicial system to seek for his labor credits. The exercise of this right, in theory, for some scholars, depends on the granting of this …
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Direito administrativo disciplinar: estudo de caso sobre o controle disciplinar na Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos
… legal status of its staff the Consolidation of Labor Laws and respective complementary legislation establishes its procedures on internal rules for the Disciplinary Control. The administrative disciplinary process is the instrument by which the public administration to exercise disciplinary …
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Three empirical essays on trade and development in India
… India. Indeed, in Indian states where inflexible labor laws impeded factor reallocation, the adverse impact of liberalization on poverty was more pronounced. The findings, consistent with a specific factors model of trade, suggest that to minimize the social costs of inequality, additional …
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The Limits of Good Intentions: A Historical Analysis of Pioneering Progressive Educators In Upstate South Carolina (1910-1920)
… mill village. Paternalism, the absence of child labor laws, and the lack of compulsory education mandates all combined to create an isolated community. After the turn of the century, as the Progressive movement gained momentum in the South, reformers from the middle and upper classes embraced …
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Job security: a legal duty to consult or negotiate?
This dissertation investigates whether or not there is a duty on the employer to negotiate with workers on issues that affect their employment security. The research focuses on why there is no duty on the employer to negotiate with workers in regard to retrenchment, closure and transfer of …
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Moral hyperactivity in corporations: is corporate governance the solution?
… moral hyperactivity and how anti-discrimination laws and labor laws have failed to effectively protect employees. (5) To outline changes that could address this phenomenon in corporations.<br/><br/>Currently, corporate managers’ moral imposition on employees goes unchecked due to a lack of …
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History of labor legislation in the Scandinavian countries
… 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) historyoflaborle00swan.pdf: 40575284 bytes, checksum: c2829f2867c56cf1bcff10904301f439 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1911
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