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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"labour mobility"”.
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The impact of intra-EU Labour mobility on national labour markets
Labour mobility in a regional bloc has been hailed for bringing about several desirable effects. It makes labour markets more flexible and economies more responsive to technological changes. Growth is enhanced because it enables employers to choose from a wider variety of productive workers, …
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The Effects of Trade Reform on Labour Mobility Across South African Local Labour Markets
The extent to which labour market are affected by trade liberalization depends crucially on their ease of reallocating labour and factors of production across regions and sectors of the economy. However, previous literature has provided little insight on the role of migration and labour market …
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Building or stumbling, blocks anyhow: a comparative approach of regional labour mobility frameworks towards global solutions
While concessions to labour mobility at the international level seem off the agenda, with the General Agreements on Trades in Services essentially tabled, the past decades have produced a proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs), some of which are facilitating labour mobility specifically. …
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Economic theory and development planning in the Arctic regions: A study in plural economy
… the consideration of questions about capital and labour mobility. Second, the case of Plural Economy is examined in theory and in its practical relation to the NWT. A third section deals with determinants and mechanisms of economic growth; multiplier and linkage effects are defined, evidence of …
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Namibia and the common monetary area : costs, benefits and choices
… theory of optimum currency areas points labour mobility, openness, diversification, intensity of mutual trade, financial and goods market integration, wage flexibility and symmetry and asymmetry of shocks as important criteria for optimum currency area. The new theory of optimum criteria …
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Impact of migration costs, microcredit, and remittances on cross-border labour migration decisions: Evidence from a Cambodian household survey
… thesis provides an examination of the Cambodian labour migration process. There are four key research papers in this thesis. Using survey data from 422 households in three northern provinces of Cambodia, the thesis begins with an attempt to evaluate and quantify the monetary costs of migration …
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The bouquet of freedom : social and economic relations in the Stellenbosch district, c1870-1900
… of the district branch of the Standard Bank. Labour legislation passed in the aftermath of slavery was most successful in tying labour to the farms when the labour market was confined to the agrarian sector. The mineral and transport revolutions of the late nineteenth century brought about the …
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Over-education in the Labour Market: Evidence from Australia
… of worker ‘skill matching’ on earnings and labour mobility. The analyses are at the individual level based on micro-panel-data in the Australian labour market. The first essay explores the determinants of over-education and its impact on earnings in the Australian labour market by using both …
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Reframing Construction Labour Productivity in a Colonisation Context: The West Bank as an Example
… under-researched topic of defining construction labour productivity and the factors impacting it in the context of a small, volatile and dependent economy of the West Bank. The aim is to identify the impact of particular social, economic and political constraints on structural and agency factors …
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Industrial Development and Location in Leeds North of the river Aire, 1775-1914
… and communication, greatly enhanced labour mobility, and the planned development of urban areas. With its strong tradition of involvement in the manufacture and marketing of woollen cloth Leeds was not slow to follow the example of capitalists in Lancashire and the East Midlands in …
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The implications of the abolition of influx control legislation in the Western Cape
… control over African urbanisation and associated labour mobility. This thesis argues that, in the macro domain, while influx control in its narrow sense has been abolished, it has been replaced with far more complex and subtle forms of control. These ostensibly racially neutral measures, an …
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Essays in Empirical Microeconomics
… agglomeration on wages and employment in local labour markets. This is an important topic because having a better understanding of the determinants of regional wage differentials and employment offers insights into: the roles played by local production, consumption and city structures; the …
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Modernised Policy Making? Investigating the Development of the 2009 Migration Impact Fund
… the nature and effectiveness of the New Labour government’s attempt to modernise policy making in Britain. This government had developed and sought to implement a new concept of modernised policymaking, claiming that it represented a significant advance on previous efforts to transform …