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  • 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.
  • 2001
  • Employment ; Gender difference ; Household behaviour ; Human capital ; Labour ; Local labour market ; Manpower ; Netherlands (The) ; Unemployment
  • The effect of poor local labour market opportunities on occupational achievement is an important aspect of the spatial mismatch hypothesis. The discouraged worker effect is defined as the decision to refrain from job search as a result of poor
  • chances on the labour market. The empirical findings, based on the Netherlands surveys (1994-97), show that discouragement can enter the job search process both at the stage of deciding to enter the labour force and at the stage of deciding to engage
  • 2001
  • Deindustrialization ; Employment ; Local economy ; Local labour market ; New Zealand ; Occupational activity ; Part-time work ; Service ; Young people
  • The article explores the employment destinations of young adults in the Christchurch labour market from the 1970s to recent times with a view to identifying how labour market opportunities facing them have changed.
  • 2001
  • Gendered work : female labour in pipfruit production in New Zealand and Chile
  • Chile ; Comparative study ; Employment ; Female work ; Fruit ; Gardening ; Gender difference ; Labour ; New Zealand ; Seasonal work ; Woman
  • As added workers seeking to supplement household incomes by seasonal employment, these female workers are significant contributors to what are often declining household incomes. While there are differences in the respective labour markets of the two
  • 2001
  • Asia ; Economic impact ; Economic sector ; Income transfer ; International migration ; Labour ; Labour migration ; South-Eastern Asia
  • Series of 12 articles on the causes of the migration of Thai labour and the socio-economic impact of the Thai migrant workers in Southeast Asia. Theoretical overview ; trends of migratory flows, labour linkages, and implications for Thailand
  • 2001
  • Local labour markets and the reconfiguration of the sugar industry in Northeast Brazil
  • Agricultural production ; Brazil ; Labour ; Labour productivity ; Local labour market ; Pernambuco ; Plantation ; Social relations ; Sugar cane ; Trade unionism
  • 2001
  • Labour market flexibility in Scotland and the new Parliament's income tax varying powers
  • Economic policy ; Flexibility ; Labour ; Labour market ; Part-time work ; Public finance ; Scotland ; Taxation system ; United Kingdom
  • 2001
  • Labour's new trunk-roads policy for England : an emerging pragmatic multimodalism ?
  • In 1998 the UK government introduced a new, integrated transport policy. Labour's approach involved promoting a reduction in car use through seeking to improve public transport provision and scaling down the national trunk-road building programme
  • against those anticipated in Labour's 2000-10 plans.
  • 2001
  • From heavy industries to a high-tech centre : mobility of educated labour in Tampere
  • Finland ; Industrial concentration ; Industrial structure ; Industry ; International migration ; Labour migration ; Skilled labour ; Urban change ; Urban economy
  • 2001
  • Testing for sample-selection bias due to location in the labour-market behaviour of respondents from the British Household Panel Survey
  • Commuting ; Data ; Household ; Imperfect statistics ; Indicator ; Individual behaviour ; Labour ; Labour market ; Model ; Professional mobility ; Spatial behaviour ; United Kingdom
  • 2001
  • Female labour migration in South-East Asia : change and continuity
  • Asia ; China ; Clandestine immigration ; Enquiry ; Indonesia ; International migration ; Labour migration ; Philippines ; Social cost ; South-Eastern Asia ; Thailand ; Woman ; Yunnan
  • The research focused on female labour migration from four countries in South-East Asia : Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Yunan-China. It covers a sample of 387 female returnees who had migrated internationally for employment. Cases studied
  • 2001
  • Intermetropolitan variation in the labour force participation of white and black men in the United States
  • Blacks ; Employment ; Labour mobility ; Local labour market ; Segregation ; Social inequality ; Spatial differentiation ; United States of America ; Whites ; Working population
  • 2001
  • The effects of the crisis of 1994/95 on the Mexican labour market : the case of the city of Puebla
  • Capitalism ; Economic crisis ; Economic impact ; Economic system ; Globalization ; Labour market ; Mexico ; Puebla ; Regulation theory ; Urban economy
  • political and social spheres is discussed on a theoretical basis employing regulation theory. The paper proposes that regulation is not only important at the macro level, but also at the micro level. Puebla portrays the conditions of human labour
  • 2001
  • Division of labour ; Economic restructuring ; Employment structure ; Gender difference ; German Democratic Republic ; Germany ; Labour ; Labour market ; Woman
  • 2001
  • Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Division of labour ; Labour ; Labour market ; Market segmentation ; Place
  • 2001
  • Comparative study ; Economic geography ; Enterprise ; Europe ; Germany ; Labour ; Labour market ; Location ; Netherlands (The) ; Professional qualification ; Regional economy
  • and Netherlands show a strong correspondence between the brain drain employees and entrepreneurs. Logit-models are applied to explain the locational distribution of entrepreneurs by using labour market mobility approaches for employees. - (L'A.).
  • 2001
  • Capitalism ; Israel ; Labour ; Labour market ; Occupational activity ; Segregation ; Social network ; Social segregation ; Spatial differentiation ; Spatial division of labour ; Urban society
  • 2001
  • Demographic change ; Employment ; Globalization ; International economy ; International migration ; Labour market ; Labour migration ; Professional qualification ; Skilled labour ; Structure of the firm ; Transnational corporation ; World
  • 2001
  • Canada ; Employment ; Human capital ; Labour ; Labour market ; Manpower ; Unemployment ; United States of America ; Working population
  • a relatively small proportion of its lower joblesness. Structural causes including lower U.S. unionization and less generous unemployment insurance appear to be more important, at least in the long run. The Canadian labour market also appears to be less
  • 2001
  • Casual labour ; Chicago ; Illinois ; Labour ; Labour market ; Location ; Market regulation ; Market segmentation ; Spatial structure ; United States of America ; Urban economy
  • 2001