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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Temporary workers"”.
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Safety in the Workplace: Differences Between Permanent and Temporary Workers
… and Health Administration recently started a temporary worker initiative, due to a large number of temporary worker injuries. All too often, temporary worker injuries occurred on the first few days of a job, due to a lack of safety training. The goal of this research is to explore potential …
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The effects of planned career transitions on the job satisfaction of temporary workers
… satisfaction in persons seeking or working in temporary employment. The population for this study was 117 individuals seeking or working as a temporary worker in the internal pool of temporary employees at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. One hundred of the individuals in …
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An examination of the relationship between the buffering response of part-time and temporary workers and technology, perceived environmental uncertainty and size in two manufacturing industries
… statistics on the use of part-time and temporary workers in manufacturing firms; and to empirically test the Perceived Environmental Uncertainty Instrument developed by Duncan and modified by Downey. These were accomplished by examining in an applied setting the relationship among one …
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Precarious Work and COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Analysis
… acutely highlights both the precariousness of temporary work and the essential nature of some precariously employed workers. No previous studies have longitudinally examined the trajectories of temporary and permanent workers’ weekly wages during the pandemic or leveraged qualitative analysis …
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Steigender Einsatz von Leiharbeitnehmenden in der Pflege – Eine empirische Fallstudie zu den Auswirkungen auf die Pflegepersonalausstattung nach Einführung von Pflegepersonaluntergrenzen in einer Universitätsklinik
… hospitals. The focus is set on the use of temporary workers and the temporary interruption of a binding nursing staffing ratio, caused by the unforeseen occurrence of the Covid-19-pandemic. A critical review of the literature shows that there is currently no international nursing staff …
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The effects of minimum wage increases on labor demand growth
… and -0.6 for skilled, unskilled, and total workers, respectively; meaning that minimum wage pressures the substitution of unskilled for skilled workers. The substitution effect, however, is not enough to prevent a negative reaction on aggregate labor demand due to the predominantly unskilled …
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Spirited Women Tell Their Stories: A Study of Bangladeshi Female
… Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon and Jordan, as temporary workers during 1995-2010. I interrogate their interactions with migration brokers and employers and offer a complex understanding of their migration journey. My understanding adds to the structural aspect of their migration journey by …
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The regional trade-union : lessons from Spain
… and reaching out to "outsiders:" the unemployed, temporary workers, and others in the more insecure parts of the labor market. My research, which compares the experience of different Spanish regions, links successful intervention to two conditions. One is that the union fully connects its efforts …
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La flessibilizzazione del mercato del lavoro italiano, conseguenze economiche ed occupazionali per le giovani coorti
… wage penalties and increased economic risks for temporary workers as a specific outcome of the «deregulation at the margins» of the Italian labour market.
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Yellow helmets : work and worth of women workers on construction sites in northern India
… women, constituting about 20% of the total workers in the industry. In spite of their large numbers, women construction workers are seen as secondary/ temporary workers with seldom any opportunities for training, upward mobility, wage guarantees, fringe benefits or social protections. My …
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The anatomy of a magic moment on a guided, all-inclusive, multiday adventure in New Zealand from a guide's perspective
… guides must be recognised; not as seasonal or temporary workers, but as professionals who hold the emotional and transformative heart of New Zealand tourism. Their insights should be central to policy, training, and strategic planning to ensure a more sustainable future for both people and …
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Occupational health and safety of young, part-time workers in the United Kingdom and Canada
… new risks have emerged for less skilled young workers in flexible labour markets (Mills 2004; Taylor-Gooby 2004). This is highlighted in the fast food industry, renowned for its employment conditions such as low pay, irregular work hours and part-time work (Reiter 2002; Royle 2002). A threat to …
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Three Essays on Corporate Policies
… government subsidies, I find that hiring more temporary workers leads firms to have more debt. Since temporary workers, unlike permanent ones, can be fired at a much lower cost during their contract duration, or their contracts may be not extended upon expiration, a firm can more easily meet …
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Apartheid in Schaarbeek: Belgian Migrant Labor and Human Rights in Europe’s Carbon Transition, 1945-1973
… Union went hand in hand with the rise of guest workers recruited from Europe’s impoverished, southern regions, North Africa, and Turkey, among others. In Belgium, these people constituted an important labor force in old and newly-emerging industries such as coal mining, car manufacturing plants, …
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Essays in Innovation, Automation, and Growth
… adjusting the stock of machines is costly, and workers can be hired and fired quickly enough. Even though labor survives, jobs become less stable, as workers are hired in short-lived bursts to cope with shocks. We calibrate a general equilibrium, multi-industry version of our model to match data …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… Survey reveal that substantial drops in EPL for temporary workers prompt a reallocation of innovation towards the introduction of new products, away from process innovation aimed at cutting labor costs. Among innovative firms, the share of product innovators increases by 15% of the pre-reform …
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The extent of the regulation of atypical employment relationships in Ethiopian law, with comparative reference to South African labour law
Universally, workers’ protection is centred on the standard employment relationship (full-time,indeterminate employment) based on the distinction between ‘employee’ and ‘independent contractor’; nonetheless globalization coupled with advances in technology and other related processes such as …
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The extent of the regulation of atypical employment relationships in Ethiopian law, with comparative reference to South African labour law
Universally, workers’ protection is centred on the standard employment relationship (full-time,indeterminate employment) based on the distinction between ‘employee’ and ‘independent contractor’; nonetheless globalization coupled with advances in technology and other related processes such as …