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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Labour markets"”.
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Inequality in Labour Markets
… a separate dimension of inequality in modern labour markets. Each chapter analyses the individual-level behaviours of workers or firms that underpin regional and aggregate distributional features of labour markets. Together, they address cross-sectional wage inequality policy at the national …
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Globalisation, Location and Labour Markets
Contains fulltext : 192664.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Inequality Under Frictional Labour Markets
… in earnings and inequality in wealth, when labour markets are frictional. Chapter 1 investigates the implications of search frictions and human-capital accumulation for the equilibrium distribution of wages when firms invest optimally in match-specific productivity. Optimal investment choice …
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Essays on Migration and Labour Markets
… the relationships between immigration and labour markets. The work consists of three empirical papers that examine particular aspects of this relationship.<br/><br/>The first paper investigates the hypothesis that immigrants are attracted by a particular labour market institution, the …
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Institutional complementarities in business systems and labour markets
… emphasizing cooperation between management and labour and on the other the contrary. The thesis will make an effort to demonstrate that the two propositions are not real substitutes, and provided that the environmental factors are favourable, they can become complementary parts of a coordinated …
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Microsimulation analysis of informal labour markets in developing countries
… most pressing problems in developing countries: labour informality. The overall objective of the thesis is to illustrate the capacity of microsimulation techniques to analyse a broad range of topics related to this problem. To highlight the potential of the methodology we pose a motivating …
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Firm growth and worker turnover in frictional labour markets
… turnover, and worker reallocation in frictional labour markets. Chapter 1 presents empirical evidence using German longitudinal matched employer-employee data on the relationship between worker flows and employer characteristics. In particular, the analysis distinguishes between …
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The impact of intra-EU Labour mobility on national labour markets
Labour mobility in a regional bloc has been hailed for bringing about several desirable effects. It makes labour markets more flexible and economies more responsive to technological changes. Growth is enhanced because it enables employers to choose from a wider variety of productive workers, …
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NAVIGATING GENDERED SPACE: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF LABOUR MARKETS IN PAKISTAN
Globalization has transformed labour markets around the world leading to an upsurge of women in the waged workforce and establishing them as the backbone of manufacturing industry. But globalizing forces are uneven and have disparate impacts. I explore why an influx of women workers is not found in …
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Studies of labour markets in countries in transition in South East Europe
This thesis explores several aspects of the labour market in Serbia and Croatia during the process of transition from socialism to a market economy. First, it examines how women s position in the labour market has changed in Serbia. Using five annual Labour Force Surveys (2001-2005), I find that …
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Commuting flows & local labour markets: Spatial interaction modelling of travel-to-work
… individuals, allowing them to participate in the labour market and earn a living to meet their essential needs. As such, a better understanding of the determinants of commuting will ultimately lead to a better understanding of the complexities of employment, housing, and the many spatial processes …
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Work Orientations and Labour Market Conditions: Subjective segmentation in local labour markets
… little is known about the influence of external labour market conditions. Given theoretical interest in preference change endogenous to labour market processes and in the ongoing importance for trade unions and managers to respond to the needs of workers, the thesis asks: to what extent are …
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The economics of language: accents, trust and social exchange in labour markets
… played in colonialism and apartheid, its role in labour market outcomes is an important policy consideration. This is especially true since the post-1994 constitutional settlement envisages a multilingual setting for the citizens of South Africa.
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Women with children first? Parenthood, policies, and gender gaps in three European labour markets
… of women and men. A family gap has emerged in labour markets: Women pay economic and career prices for motherhood, while the career progression of men marches on come fatherhood. Gender inequality in paid work persists despite institutional change aimed at mitigating it or curbing it …
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The Effects of Trade Reform on Labour Mobility Across South African Local Labour Markets
The extent to which labour market are affected by trade liberalization depends crucially on their ease of reallocating labour and factors of production across regions and sectors of the economy. However, previous literature has provided little insight on the role of migration and labour market …
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Life in a Northern Town: Call Centres, Labour Markets and Identity in Post-Industrial Middlesbrough
… East of England, underwent transformation from labour markets dominated by iron, steel and chemical industries to a reliance on new forms of insecure, flexible service sector employment, typified in this study by call centres. Call centres emerged in the 1990s as a cost-saving efficient delivery …
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Technologies, labour markets and workers: three essays on the consequences of technological change on labour
… wages and the organization of work across labour markets and occupational groups. It combines a comparative cross-national perspective with case-study evidence from Germany in order to capture the labour market dynamics related to technological change at both the macro and micro levels. …
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The gendered effects of tariff liberalisation on local labour markets in post-apartheid South Africa
… the gendered effects of tariff liberalisation on labour market outcomes at the local level. Specifically, the thesis focuses on the effect of tariff liberalisation on regional employment growth, labour adjustment in the manufacturing sector and services sector, and internal migration over a period …
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