A stake in place ? The geography of employee ownership and its implications for a stakeholder society
Through a detailed case study of a management and employee buyout in the railway industry, the A. suggests that the ability of employee ownership to fix investment in place may be enhanced by relations of stakeholding, increasing committment
to the firm and its future. Lack of employee power and finance excluded most workers from the processes and philosophy of the buyout. It is argued that government and trade unions can do more to promote wider employee ownership and participation at work
Amazon Basin ; Economic activity ; Ecuador ; Employment ; Growth pole ; Informal sector ; Public service ; Town
Examination of economic activities and employment in four boom towns of the Ecuador Amazon or Oriente : Puyo, Nueva Loja, Tena and Coca. Data were obtained from the 1990 national population census and from field observations of urban establishments
in 1993. Results of the establishment survey are compared to those of similar studies in the Brazilian Amazon. Abundant self-employment in an informal sector and a large portion of the labor force in the public service sector is found. - (SLD)
Skills, wages and employment in East and West Germany
Demand ; Employment ; Germany ; Industrial branch ; Industrial employment ; Labour ; Labour market ; Production fonction ; Professional qualification ; Wage
Demographic change ; Economic impact ; Employment ; Land ; Mountain ; Regional economy ; Rocky Mountains ; United States of America ; Wilderness
The paper finds, for a sample of 250 nonurban counties in the eight states of the intermountain west, no evidence that the existence of federal wilderness is directly or indirectly associated with either population-density or total-employment
-density growth between 1980 and 1990. This empirical finding is based on a disequilibrium model of population and employment growth. The study finds no empirical evidence that county-level resource-based employment is adversely affected by the existence
Job proximity and the urban employment problem : do suitable nearby jobs improve neighbourhood employment rates ?
Chicago ; Employment ; Labour ; Local labour market ; Model ; Professional qualification ; Unemployment ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban district ; Workplace
Informal responses to crises of urban employment : an investigation into the structure and relevance of small-scale informal retailing in Kaduna, Nigeria
Employment ; Informal sector ; Kaduna ; Living standard ; Nigeria ; Retail trade ; Small firm ; Town ; Urban economy
Employment ; France ; Labour market ; Languedoc-Roussillon ; Poverty ; Precarious employment ; Precariousness ; Social change ; Social exclusion ; Social policy ; Social relations ; Society ; Territory
Arizona ; Commuting ; Employment ; Residential location ; Town ; United States of America ; Urban structure ; Workplace
Les AA. étudient la relation entre les emplois et les résidences du centre-ville de Phoenix sur la base d'une enquête de 1995. Seulement 15% des employés des plus grandes entreprises de Phoenix habitent dans les quartiers avoisinants. Existence
Baranya ; Employment ; Hungary ; Manpower ; Social geography ; Working population
The examined region is in disavantageous position considering employment, it is an underdeveloped region because its social statistics are less favourable than the national average. At the beginning of 1997 that rate of unemployment reached 16 pr