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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Unskilled labour."”.
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The impact of the European Union-South Africa free trade area agreement on factor returns in South Africa: much ado about nothing?
The notion that the returns of unskilled labour in developed countries are adversely affected by growth in trade with developing countries as a result of trade liberalisation has received a great deal of attention. What underpins this notion is the standard trade theory which posits that trade is …
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Factor substitution in the Irish manufacturing sector.
… estimate the elasticities of demand for skilled labour, unskilled labour and capital in the Irish manufacturing sector for the years 1979 to 2005. An understanding of the magnitude of these elasticites can play an important role in developing approrpariate policies for promoting growth and …
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Low cost, small-scale charcoal production in the Western Cape
… production from invasive alien vegetation by unskilled labour.
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Transnational lives and their boundaries : expatriates in Jakarta, Indonesia
… counterbalancing the existing research on unskilled labour migration movements. As expatriates have hardly been investigated at all, this study then fills a significant gap in terms of ethnography.
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Executive Influence on Employee Training Effectiveness in Saudi SME Firms
… and Nitaqat to replace high levels of foreign labour with qualified Saudis, especially in regards to improving the unskilled labour force for the SME. Whilst research concerning effective training of firms’ employees is available, there are no studies documenting Saudi SME employers’ …
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Housing Finance: The Case of Kawe Women Development Trust -Nyumba Ni Mama Self-Help Housing Group
… ni Mama' members are willing to contribute unskilled labour and some of building materials. Several members have already bought plots or have stock of various building materials. No response was received from possible partners to the project, financial institutions and municipal; thus …
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Lost in the Long Books: Revealing the organisation, operations and uses of the collegiate gardens in the University of Oxford between 1733 and 1837
… rather than the colleges employing their own labour. These businessmen in turn sub-contracted skilled gardeners by the day to service the needs of the gardens. The analysis of financial data from contractors’ bills demonstrated that figures previously considered wages for work in the garden …
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The place beyond the bent pines - designing through exploration, making and discovery: an alternative design methodology through an exploration in timber for an imagining of its use
… South Africa where high unemployment rates and unskilled labour is experienced. The dissertation further demonstrates the way in which a designed structural timber system, designed purely through informants learnt through the 'act of making', can be applied in a contextualised setting with an …
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Yeats and labour
This thesis examines how W.B. Yeats’s view of labour developed over his lifetime. It focuses primarily on Yeats’s poetry, though consideration is also made of his letters, essays, plays, and speeches. The five chapters of the thesis are organised chronologically. Chapter 1 argues that Yeats’s early …
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Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism
… distinction was here made between skilled and unskilled labour. This distinction is considered to be of prime importance to any developing country where a shortage of skilled staff generally prevails, in contrast to a vast supply of untrained labour.
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A history of Maamba coal mine and its socio-economic impact on Zambia, 1968-2010.
… how Maamba Colliery recruited and retained its labour force. It reveals that the colliery pooled the bulk of its skilled workforce from the Copperbelt province owing to the working experience and technical schools which were in close proximity to the copper mines. Unskilled labour was recruited …
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Investigating the challenges working-class women face in the construction industry-RSA
… that working-class women constitute the bulk of unskilled labour, semi-skilled and junior positions in the industry. It is, therefore, incumbent on scholars and policymakers to motivate deeper analysis to generate behavioural and systemic changes to achieve substantive inclusion and empowerment …
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Modelling foreign direct investment in China
… study suggest that China's relatively cheaper labour force, high degree of international integration with the outside world (represented by its exports and imports) and bilateral exchange rates are the important economic determinants of both pledged FDI and realised FDI in China. The second …
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Spatial mismatch in Cape Town : business location and the impacts on workers
… home to abundant supplies of cheap and available unskilled labour. With the awareness that Cape Town may be slowly following the developmental path of Johannesburg and many other cities of the world, as decentralization, suburbanization, and the overall processes of economic 'tertiarisation' and …
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A comparison of vocational interest types and job satisfaction in adult career development : a study of unskilled workers in Australia
… whether this theory held for a group of 120 unskilled workers, and for 54 teachers. The key issues were whether interest-job congruence correlated with job satisfaction, and whether the congruence-satisfaction relationship was a function of the congruence measure used. While previous studies …
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South Africa's economic policies on unemployment : a historical analysis of two decades of transition
… in the cost-neutral change in the capital/labour (K/L) ratio between 1995 and 2013 by means of a historical Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling approach. The literature study focuses on employment, growth and human capital theories to reflect on the present state of knowledge and …
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Foundation for a national road prioritisation model for South Africa
… to take advantage of the low shadow price of unskilled labour. The thesis first reviews the extent and consequences of these failures and evaluates their opportunity cost with respect to the potential benefits from more efficient road infrastructure investment policy. If fiscal constraints are …
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New Brighton, Port Elizabeth c1903-1953 : a history of an urban African community
… and motor assembly plants were the preserve of unskilled white (Afrikaans-speaking) workers recently arrived from the city's hinterland. A relatively stable African population grew in the absence of influx controls, and provided a large pool of unskilled labour. A fairly large Coloured …
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Professionalisation or polarisation? : economic restructuring and changes in Cape Town's labour market
… also used to dispute the contention that a large unskilled migrant population was a sufficient condition for social polarisation. Theories about the impacts of deindustrialisation and the decline in blue-collar work on unskilledethnic urban minority groups were also discussed. Again, using …
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Labour on commercial farms in Zambia : A case study of the Southern Province, 1945-1980
This dissertation examines the process of labour stabilization on the commercial farms in the Southern Province of Zambia between 1945 and 1980. It does this by attempting to show how post-Second World War technological innovations, rural-to-rural migrations, landlessness and population increase, …
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