Coming and going in Slovakia : international labour mobility in the Central European buffer zone
Central Europe ; Economic system ; Europe ; Human capital ; International migration ; Labour ; Labour market ; Labour migration ; Labour mobility ; Social inequality
-labour market, the Slovakians are found in both segments of the dual labour market. The overall effect is to contribute to the reproduction of economic inequalities in the buffer zone.
Regionale forskjeller i yrkesdeltakingen 1970 Regional differences in labour force participation
The aim of the paper is to study how labour force participation is affected simultaneously by individual traits and municipality characteristics. The main emphasis is on the influence of regional background variables on labour force participation
Employment ; Financing ; Housing ; Housing market ; Labour market ; Labour mobility ; Neo-classical model
Labour mobility as a concept has different meanings in different contexts. It was often confined to a discussion of geographical movement between labour markets and the constraints imposed by the tenure position. But it captures only one aspect
of job movement. An alternative explanation of labour and housing market interactions is provided. After a review of the debates over the last 50 years, the involvement of employers in the housing market is examined. The interaction is studied
British Columbia ; Canada ; Economic restructuring ; Flexibility ; Industrial branch ; Industry ; Labour ; Labour market ; Labour productivity ; Wood industry
The paper focuses on in situ restructuring and the search for flexibility in a Fordist labour relations environment, notably the coastal lumber industry of British Columbia, by comparatively analyzing the recent experiences of the Chemainus
and Youbou sawmills. The differences in the introduction of new technology reflect the presence of an irreductible local component in labour control.
The state, skilled labour markets, and immigration : the case of doctors in England
Doctor of medicine ; England ; Health ; Immigration ; International migration ; Labour ; Labour market ; Skilled labour ; United Kingdom
The AA. seek to explore some of the complexities of shifting labour markets and immigration regulations and their influence on the geography of migration of doctors in England. State regulations have been altered to meet the specificities
of internal labour-market shortages and that the level of the state remains a useful analytical level for understanding the skilled migration of doctors.
Het regionaal arbeidsaanbod in Nederland| structuur en ontwikkeling. The regional supply of labour in the Netherlands| structure and development
This report analyses structure and development of the regional labour supply in the Netherlands. It concentrates on six labour market areas in this country. The emphasis is on the quantitative aspects of labour market areas. - (AGD)
Urbanization in South Africa and the changing character of migrant labour
Enquiry ; Household behaviour ; Labour migration ; Migratory flow ; Post-apartheid ; South Africa ; Urban immigration ; Urbanization
In South Africa migrant labours is indelibly associated with apartheid and influx control. But even since the abolition of influx control, labour migration has continued on a considerable scale. The purpose of this paper is to identify some
of the features of migrant labour as it exists today and to draw out some its implications for urbanization. - (AJC)
Local labour markets and individual transitions into and out of poverty : evidence from the British Household Panel Study waves 1 to 8
Family income ; Labour ; Living standard ; Local labour market ; Poverty ; Probability ; United Kingdom
The paper examines the impact of changes in local-labour market conditions on individual poverty exits and entrances. Transitions out of poverty and transitions into poverty are estimated by using discrete duration models. The relative contribution
of labour market variables is smaller than individual and family characteristics in determining transitions out of and into poverty.
Labour ; Neo liberalism ; Scale ; Trade unionism ; Transnationalism ; Work organization
The contributions address some of the issues raised by those who have recently taken stock of labour geography's early years. First, there is the key question of labour as an active agent in the production of economic landscapes. Second
, there are debates surrounding the production of scale and the multiscalarity of organized labour. Third, labour geographers have yet to engage in any sustained fashion with unpacking the complex identities of workers and the way in which those identities are shaped
by and shape the economic and cultural landscape. Fourth, there is some debate on the costs and benefits of a normative labour geography which focuses on what could or even should be.
Game theories? Spatial divisions of labour and rational choice marxism
Economic restructuring ; Marxism ; Social class ; Social relations ; Social structure ; Spatial division of labour
Différence entre la démarche adoptée par D. Massey dans « Spatial divisions of labour » et le marxisme du choix rationnel et les critiques théoriques que ce dernier fait à l'ouvrage cité.