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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Unskilled workers"”.
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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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An investigation into the barriers to employment for unskilled workers in Site C, Khayelitsha and Du Noon, Milnerton : does spatial mismatch theory apply?
… case studies because of their similar skill set (unskilled), the high rate of unemployment, and the geographic location of each case relative to the job opportunities. This research adds to the literature by demonstrating under which conditions this spatial mismatch is more or less of a …
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Structural adjustments to the farm labour force, 1994-2011 : a Mincerian exploration of returns to education and experience
… a vital source of employment and income for many unskilled workers in South Africa. However, due to the decline in the sector's contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (as a result of the reduction in agricultural production and an increase in the contribution of the manufacturing and …
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Worker's perception regarding the introduction of technology at Chiadzwa diamonds mines in Zimbabwe
… this study was to investigate the perceptions of workers regarding the introduction of technology at Chiadzwa Diamond Mines. The study was quantitative in nature and a descriptive research design was used. A selected sample size of 60 workers (30 skilled and 30 unskilled) was drawn out from …
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Evaluating a governmental training and development programme
… by creating short to medium term jobs for unskilled workers through clearing alien vegetation. WfW aims to appoint contractors based on targets from the Expanded Public Works Programme which are 60% women, 20% youth (18 - 36 years) and 2% disabled people. The CDM’s main objectives can be …
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Labour Market Policies and Unemployment in the Presence of Search & Matching Frictions
… decisions of firms and unemployment across workers with different skills. We develop a partial equilibrium model with heterogeneous high- and low-tech jobs and with skilled and unskilled workers, which we motivate by the stark evidence on the incidence of cross-skill employment (which crowds …
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History of Unionization in Waterloo, Iowa
… opposition of management, the fear and apathy of workers, the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations for the benefit of unskilled workers, strikes and violence, and the present problem of automation. In the story of this Iowa city, vaguely diffused national generalizations become sharply …
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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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Provisional formulation of normative data for semi and unskilled black and coloured workers on the Trail making Test
… of performance for the South African semi- and unskilled black and coloured population groups on the Trail Making Test. One hundred and six black and coloured semi- and unskilled workers from the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, satisfying the criteria of 8 years or less of formal education, …
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NAVIGATING PUBLIC SENTIMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION POLICY PERCEPTIONS IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES (2017-2020)
… occupational categories, such as skilled and unskilled workers, tend to favour more restrictive policies. Canada has an overall more positive inclination towards immigration policy compared to the United States. The study underscores the importance of job availability and economic …
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From <i>Zadruga</i> to oil refinery: Croatian immigrants and Croatian-Americans in Whiting, Indiana, 1890 to 1950
… the city seeking work. They began as low-paid, unskilled workers; as they ended their careers, many rose to skilled positions. As immigrant women entered the community by 1900, immigrant families appeared. The families preserved many Croatian customs. Most families kept boarders in their homes. …
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Differential economic multipliers : an extension of Weiss and Gooding and an application to the Eastern Cape Province
… such as that between skilled and unskilled workers, and carries this differentiation through all stages of the multiplier process. The basic difference between the regional and the national multiplier is the existence of additional leakages from the flow of income, particularly in …
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Between two fires: race and the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1904-1922
… ability to directly confront the racism of white workers. External factors—most importantly, the race riot of 1919 and the hegemonic power of employers—further weakened the Federation and doomed its efforts. After suffering a series of brutal defeats in the early twentieth century, all of which …
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Re-imagining the Maison Tropicale : a 21st century prefabricated building system inspired by Jean Prouvé
… while also ensuring that only a small team of unskilled workers is required to construct the final building. Lastly, the kit of parts was applied to the design of a new home in the Tropics, accounting for local concerns such as shading building orientation, moisture and ventilation.
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Relative Wages and Endogenous Growth
… 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 wages of …
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From plan to market: firm-level adjustment to trade liberalization and business environment reform. Evidence from Vietnam
… liberalization has a labour-friendly effect on unskilled workers, a reduction in input tariffs has an “absolute” skill-biased effect, shifting firms’ demand from unskilled workers to skilled labour. The findings suggest important consequences of trade openness for the labour market evolution. A …
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Three Papers in Labor Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation
… perceived among single and multiple promoted workers, suggests either that individuals are ""promoted to their level of incompetence,"" or that workers' incentive to ""over-produce"" may decline after reaching the desired higher position. The second chapter presents evidence on the economic …
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Cape Town at war: the city, lived experiences and loyalties, 1914-1919
… as well as the marked presence of semi- and unskilled workers organising en-mass for the first time. The third part of the thesis speaks to subjective depictions of Cape Town. It considers three main discourses about the city – ‘slum city,' ‘sin city' and ‘destination city' - indicating the …
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Girls' vocational training schools in London: a study of the inter-war years
… where schools trained girls to be cheap, unskilled workers in certain women's trades. Educational policy was constrained by the desire to preserve conventional domestic roles intact and a belief that working class girls could be defined by their gender as a homogeneous group …
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Three essays on inequality
… main idea is that by excluding less productive workers from the labor market, policies such as minimum wages create “bad” entrepreneurs, in the sense that these individuals would be better off employed as workers. The decreased supply of labor and demand for capital have competitive equilibrium …
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