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The Dynamics of Asian Labour Markets
Balancing Control and Flexibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Asia has undergone rapid economic transformation over the past two decades. Despite its constant economic growth, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the resulting surge in unemployment highlighted the vulnerability of national systems that base development solely on economic growth.
This...
Industrial Clusters, Institutions and Poverty in Nigeria
The Otigba Information and Communications Technology Cluster
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
This book provides a systematic examination of the relationship between industrial clusters and poverty, which is analyzed using a multidimensional framework. It examines the often-neglected concept of social protection as a means of mitigating the risks and vulnerabilities faced by workers and citizens...
New Unions, New Workplaces
Strategies for Union Revival
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book makes a major contribution to the debate within the UK and abroad on the reality of workplace unionism in an era of change. Drawing on examples of union renewal, the authors present an historical overview, and compare the UK experience with contrasting international examples. It presents...
OECD Employment Outlook 2009
Tackling the Jobs Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
This 2009 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook provides an annual assessment of labour market developments and prospects in member countries. This issue focuses on the jobs crisis in particular and looks at steps taken by governments to help workers and the unemployed. It recommends ways of preventing...
China’s Economic Growth Prospects
From Demographic Dividend To Reform Dividend
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
In this book Cai Fang explores the contribution of demographic transition to economic growth in China’s reform period, depicts the population factors causing the economic slowdown since the second decade of the twenty-first century, analyses the challenges facing its long-term sustainability when the...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Do you feel like doing repeated work daily, and you always think you can do more if you aren't doing these job? Well, why not considering outsourcing.
Many companies around the world outsource their work overseas. There are many advantages doing it, such as lower cost and better staff management....
by J. Atikian
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded. UN and World Bank data show growing output everywhere, but it remains hidden by the faster-growing service sector. Engineers, programmers, surgeons, and pilots make up an increasing share of what...
by Vincent Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
The Singapore economy has undergone drastic changes. There is less and less of the traditional activities. A simple example is that Singapore has lost its place as the No. 1 port, yet Singapore remains a shipping and maritime hub.Europeans find Singapore a convenient connection to the fast growing business...
by Douglas Heminsaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Learn More About Electrician Job Description And Responsibilities, Interesting Facts About Electricians, Electricians Helper, Home Electrical Inspections, Education Requirements, What Questions Should Be Asked Before Hiring An Electrician and Related Occupations Of An Electrician Plus Much More!
Cases in European Competition Policy
The Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Competition between firms is usually the most effective way of delivering economic efficiency and what consumers want. However, there is a balance to be struck. Firms must not be over-regulated and so hampered in their development of innovative products and new strategies to compete for customers....
Learning Factories
The Nordic Model of Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book examines how the norms, culture, and practices of the socio-economic Nordic model give them a competitive edge in globalized production chains. Using the Norwegian automotive industry – one of the most globalized industries in the world – as the empirical foundation of the book, it examines...
The Shorter Working Week
With Special Reference to the Two-Shift System
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
In 1931 the International Association for Social Progress decided to undertake an enquiry concerning the effects of a shorter working week on unemployment and productivity. This title, first published in 1934, provides an analysis of information obtained through the author’s private research on...
Terrorism and Violence in Southeast Asia: Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability
Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This timely work examines the scale and root causes of terrorism across Southeast Asia, including the role of al-Qaeda's ascendancy in the region. It begins with an overview of the analytical and theoretical framework for discussing the subject. Individual chapters then examine terrorist activities...
The Code Economy
A Forty-Thousand Year History
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
What do Stone Age axes, Toll House cookies, and Burning Man have in common? They are all examples of code in action. What is "code"? Code is the DNA of human civilization as it has evolved from Neolithic simplicity to modern complexity. It is the "how" of progress. It is how ideas...