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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"labor policy"”.
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The Supreme Court and labor policy: A rational choice perspective
… Court has played in the development of public policy in general, and labor policy in particular, has been the subject of substantial research. Most of this research, however, has been mainly normative, with little attention been paid to the political context in which the Court operates. This …
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Labor movement and labor policy under the American military government in Korea, 1945-1948
… AMG confronted strong Korean opposition to many labor-management policies. The use of naked force rather than effective administration was the major AMG strategic approach. AMG openly and actively aided former collaborators of the Japanese colonial government and rightist politicians while …
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The role of skilled labor pool in driving firms to agglomerate: an empirical study on China's policy experiment
… agglomeration forces operating through skilled labor mobility. Specifically, this research uses a natural experiment in China regarding to skilled labor migration liberalization to examine the impact of skilled labor pool and knowledge availability on China’s industrial agglomeration. The …
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Essays in macroeconomics
… essays. The first one studies the effect of labor policy, in particular of firing costs, on financially restricted firms. It proposes and models an effect of firing costs that has not been described in the literature so far. When a time gap exists between production and its associated …
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A New Framework of Enterprise Unionism: A Comparative Study of Nine Asian Countries
… the state has implemented an enterprise union policy, with some interruptions. On the other hand, it found enterprise unions to be insignificant in Hong Kong (18%), where the state labor policy has been laissez-faire; and no enterprise unions until 1994 in Indonesia, where the state had …
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Social movements as networks of communication episodes
… analyze four different SMS: (1) 1970s US Energy Policy Domain, (2) 1970s US Health Policy Domain, (3) 1980s Anti-Stalinist mobilization in Poland, and (4) 1980s US Labor Policy Domain. Multidimensional network simulation was used to determine which organizing patterns correlate to instrumental …
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Labor Market Dynamics in West Virginia and the Appalachian Region
… consists of three manuscripts analyzing labor market dynamics in West Virginia and the Appalachian Region. The first manuscript examines the dynamic effects of national, regional, and local labor market shocks on labor force participation rates in Appalachia. A dynamic factor model with …
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Stolen wages, stolen lives: A critical analysis of the fair workweek policy
… work schedules are a well-known aspect of labor conditions in the retail and food service sectors of the US economy (Lambert, Fugiel, & Henly, 2014). This issue is now being addressed by advocates of what is commonly known as the Fair Workweek policy. Despite the variance among the policies …
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Collaboration and Conflict: Organized Labor, Business, and the State in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
… witnessed in tripartite (state, organized labor, and business) relations in Mexico during the period 1969-1976, or the years that immediately followed the massacre of October 2, 1968. Here it is contended that after that seminal moment it was not students but organized workers, those from …
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Essays on childhood obesity
… Credit Increase Children’s Weight? The Impact of Policy-Driven Income on Childhood Obesity”, I exploit substantial increases in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to study how a policy-driven change in family income affects childhood obesity. In contrast to a widely accepted belief, I find that …
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Pembangunan kerangka pengurusan risiko pendidikan luar di Institut Pendidikan Tinggi Malaysia
Pengurusan risiko pendidikan luar (PRPL) bertujuan untuk mengawal, meminimum dan mengelakkan daripada berlakunya kemalangan dan kecederaan. Justeru, pengurusan risiko pendidikan luar diperlukan untuk meningkatkan langkah keselamatan semasa perlaksanaan aktiviti dijalankan disamping mewujudkan sifar …
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Forecasting housing demand in Terengganu using multinomial logit
Housing demand is defined as the number of homes needed as residence per household. There are 3 types of housing developed in Terengganu which are low medium cost housing, medium cost housing and high cost housing. According to the NAPIC, during the 2nd quarter of 2016, Terengganu recorded the …
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Three essays on the endogenous growth of a regional economy under the impacts of demographic changes
… on the economy mainly due to the decline of the labor force and aggregate saving rate. The first chapter adopts the two-sector overlapping generation (OLG) model to capture the impact of population ageing on the regional economy and compares the effectiveness of government policy in an endogenous …
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The federal government and the Industrial Workers of the World, 1917-1918: An attempt to crush a labor union
1 PDF file (iii, 155 pages)
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Inequality in Perspective: Rethinking Inequality Measurement, Minimum Wages and Elites in Mexico
… subject of long-standing debates in academic and policy circles. Notwithstanding disagreements about exactly how the two are linked, conventional wisdom agrees that inequality is an objective ‘fact’ that can be measured free from ideological considerations. New data detect trends towards higher …