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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"flexible labour"”.
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Labour Investment: A Managers’ Decision-Making Perspective
… investigate factors that affect management’s labour investment decisions and how management of labour influences firm performance. In my first study, I examine how firms adjust their labour in response to business downturns and how different labour adjustment practices influence firms’ …
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Dvakrát nevstoupíš do stejné řeky? Rakousko a jeho "gastarbeiteři" v letech 1961-1974 a 2002-2011
… miracle," Austria had to face an increasing labour shortage that threatened the so appreciated economic growth. The problem was solved by means of a regulated labour migration programme based on the so- called rotation principle. The programme aimed to ensure foreign workers' role as a …
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Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community
… of contemporary issues of media production, flexible labour, gender and community. In part because of the particular characteristics of romance writing itself, these themes are also underpinned by the constant presence of love, as a discourse, an activity and a story. While revealing the …
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Occupational health and safety of young, part-time workers in the United Kingdom and Canada
… 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 young, …
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Identity, work, and mobility amongst Bolivian market vendors in El Alto and São Paulo
… these categories. In contexts of precarious and flexible labour conditions, market women are aware that being othered as indigenous might compromise their claims to mobility. Resisting these categorisations, they use various strategies adapted to the particular forms of intersecting exclusion in …
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An analysis of the determinants and scarring effects of economic inactivity and unemployment in the UK
… to exit the state. Moreover, in the case of labour market transitions from unemployment and inactivity, we find that occurrence dependence is not scarring, but it is the lagged-duration dependence that is scarring. This suggests that having a one-time long spell of previous unemployment (or …
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Essays on international auditing : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Accountancy at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
… economy and in an environment of increased labour mobility, auditors play a crucial role in assuring the quality of financial reporting. At the same time, auditors could provide certain professional non-audit services to their audit clients. Understanding the factors influencing the demand …