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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Skilled workers"”.
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Improving skilled workers' performance in construction projects in Nigeria
Skilled workers’ performance is one of the crucial aspects of labour productivity that requires proper attention for effective projects delivery in the construction industry. The level of skilled workers’ low performance has been seen to be a major factor which contributes toward inefficient …
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Less-skilled workers & the high-technology economy : a regional jobs strategy for Lawrence, MA
… create living-wage job opportunities for workers who do not have four year college degrees? If so, what type of training and assistance would be necessary to help low income workers access these opportunities? This analysis is conducted in seven parts. It begins with analysis of the …
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An Existential Perspective on the Role of Human Agency in the Retraining of Immigrant Skilled Workers in Canada
This qualitative study explored the career re-development of immigrant professionals in Canada by centering the investigation on their Canadian retraining journey. The goal of this study was to provide a deeper understanding of the transition issues, retraining decision-making process, retraining …
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Prospects for low-skilled workers in the information technology (IT) sector : lessons for workforce development policy from Boston area IT firms and the staffing industry
… in creating employment opportunities for lower skilled workers in the information technology (IT) sector and related businesses. It generally accepted that this sector creates job opportunities with superior wages and employment benefits compared to other sectors; this thesis explores …
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No ties that bind : low skill workers, social networks and job search in the Silicon Valley's new economy
… as the economic growth that enables lesser skilled workers to access employment opportunities that provide them some measure of upward mobility. The thesis considers whether personal networks - a key means of searching for work - are likely to provide any upward mobility for low-skill …
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The spatial mismatch hypothesis and the use of social networks for job search in Cape Town
… its mechanisms, how they interact with lower-skilled workers in the labour market, and what role social networks play. The spatial mismatch hypothesis suggests that a significant distance between residential areas and centres of employment (1) leads to a lengthy and expensive commute which …
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Race, class and spatial polarisation in the greater Cape Town
… that could contribute towards explaining why low-skilled workers' unemployment rates are significantly higher in the south-east townships. Pre- 1994 apartheid laws had a marked impact on urban land use patterns in South Africa. A new government came into power in 1994 and the Group Areas Act had …
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The Impact of Import Competition from China on the Skill-Bias of Manufacturing Employment across South African Regions between 2001 and 2011
… Chinese import exposure was biased against low-skilled workers as it resulted loss of employment for the low-skilled workers, and had a minimal effect on the employment of high-skilled workers.
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Returns to Education: Evidence from the UK
… UK, which is used to regulate the flow of young workers into the labor market. In this chapter, I examine the employment effect of becoming eligible for higher minimum wage rate by applying Regression Discontinuity (RD). The results suggest that an increase in the minimum wage has a positive …
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Essays on Innovation, Experimentation, and Discrimination
… in a hiring setting. In the model, workers, characterized by skill level and binary group membership, arrive sequentially into a market with a single firm who has a single productive slot and an exogenous preference for one of the two groups. With high-skilled workers, the firm …
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Trade, Labor Markets and the Organization of Production within Firms
… of a continuum of tasks and firms hire low-skilled and high-skilled workers for the performance of tasks, which differ in their complexity. How firms assign workers to tasks depends on factor prices for the two skill types and the productivity advantage of high-skilled workers in the …
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Relative Wages and Endogenous Growth
… are associated with a high relative supply of skilled workers who earn constant or relatively low wages. Chapter 1 of this dissertation reviews recent models of endogenous growth. The 1980s, however, are associated with high technological progress, high relative supply and increasing relative …
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Skill composition, firm innovation and economic performance: Three essays
… inputs. Each firm determines the mix of its workers’ skills to increase the likelihood of realising innovation and improve its performance. A firm that is technologically on par with its competitors invests in high-skilled workers to innovate and escape intensifying competition. In contrast, …
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Projects, management, and protean times : engineering enterprise in the United States, 1870-1960
… dissertation, I trace methods for organizing skilled workers engaged in creative, limited-term projects in the United States between the nineteenth century and the 1950s. Examining eras of system building in technical fields-civil engineering in the nineteenth century, laboratory …
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The efficacy of apprenticeship training as preparation for self-employment in Kenya
… the efficacy of apprenticeships in preparing skilled workers for self-employment. The study attempted to determine the entrepreneurial knowledge and skills possessed by the apprentices, the method of skill acquisition, and relationship between competency and interest in self-employment.
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Quantifying the impact of adding an unlisted credit asset to a portfolio of listed credit assets
Skilled construction workers play a vital role in the delivery of construction projects. However, there has been report off their shortage within the Nigerian construction industry. The commitment of the few available ones to their organisation is therefore important as this is bound to influence …
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Access to jobs : transportation barriers faced by low-skilled autoless workers in U.S. metropolitan areas
… the geographic separation between jobs and workers. Although numerous studies examine spatial mismatch, most of them focus on inner-city minorities, and the spatial mismatch problem for all autoless workers in a metropolitan area as a whole has not been well explored. Focusing on low-skilled …
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Dimensions of Earnings Inequality in Australia
… the consensus that technical change favours more skilled workers, as new technologies evolve and are introduced into workplaces. This explanation relates the increases in earnings inequalities to a shift in demand towards highly skilled workers and away from less skilled workers, and centres …
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Essays on the Economics of Algorithms, Markets, and Organizations
… and increasingly reliance on algorithms shapes workers, organizations, and markets. In the first chapter, I show how the digitization of public housing records leads to the entry of investors using algorithms. Digitization and entry lead to changes in equilibrium prices and allocation in the US …
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Investment and human capital externalities: knowledge spillovers
… If the children go to school, they will become skilled workers next period. The old agents just consume the lifetime savings in form of capital. The main theoretical conclusion is that benevolent social planner maximizes a social welfare function and internalizes the external effects. The social …
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