Deindustrialization ; Employment ; Local economy ; Local labourmarket ; New Zealand ; Occupational activity ; Part-time work ; Service ; Young people
The article explores the employment destinations of young adults in the Christchurch labourmarket from the 1970s to recent times with a view to identifying how labourmarket opportunities facing them have changed.
Employment ; Gender difference ; Household behaviour ; Human capital ; Labour ; Local labourmarket ; Manpower ; Netherlands (The) ; Unemployment
The effect of poor local labourmarket 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 labourmarket. 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
Redundancy in an expanding labourmarket : a case-study of displaced workers from two manufacturing plants in Southampton
Concept ; Employment ; England ; Enterprise;Firm ; Local labourmarket ; Southampton ; Survey ; United Kingdom
This paper examines the post-redundancy experience of workers made redundant by two large manufacturing firms in the mid-1980s. Comparison with previous studies in less prosperous labourmarkets contrasts in the proportions of workers finding
Do municipal residency laws affect labourmarket outcomes ?
Economic impact ; Legislation ; Local labourmarket ; Police ; Public service ; Residence ; Taxation system ; Town ; Urban policy
Studies investigating the economic effects of residency laws on municipal labourmarkets have not obtained consistent results. The A. re-examines the effects of residency laws using newer data, relatively large samples and cities with a wide range
The article attempts to show that in Germany - as in comparable countries - employment is primarely determined by economic growth. The study contradicts the widely held theory that the German labourmarket has changed to such an extent over the past
few years, that the term new labourmarket is indeed warranted. This new labourmarket is regionally differentiated, as will be shown at the hand of Bundesländer (Nuts I regions). - (IFL)
Are labourmarkets necessarily local ? Spatiality, segmentation and scale
Australia ; Division of labour ; Employment ; Firm strategy ; Labour ; Labourmarket ; Local labourmarket ; Market segmentation ; Scale ; Spatial analysis
This article analyses the symmetric effects of national-based active labourmarket policies in Italy. The results suggest that while in the South employment is mainly driven by social and economic context variables, in the North the employment
dynamics are significantly explained by policy interventions. Two policy implications are suggested. First, the success of active ones depends on the regional labourmarket conditions. Second, policy-makers should adjust labour policy strategy to regional
Geographical variation in the labour-market adjustment process : the UK coalfields 1981-91
Coal ; Coalfield ; Employment ; England and Wales ; Heavy industry ; Labour ; Local labourmarket ; Mine ; Professional qualification ; Unemployment ; United Kingdom
The AA. explore the consequences of the great loss of workforce for different coalfields and individual districts by means of labour-market accounts. The impact of job loss on recorded unemployment shows little variation, but this disguises greater
diversity in other labour-market flows. There is evidence that much unemployment has become hidden and that the disparities between areas are much larger than official figures suggest.
A reflection on population stability and the labor market by people living in Czech border regions
Czech Republic ; Enquiry ; Frontier ; Frontier region ; Labourmarket ; Population
Reflection of the population and the labourmarket stability, based on a survey in sixteen selected border microregions in whole Czechia. The most often mentioned reasons for not moving were housing, family relations, work and the feeling being here
Geographers and planners on the labourmarket. The sucess on the labourmarket of geographers and planners graduated between september 1987 and august 1990
Labourmarket ; Practice of geography ; Regional planning
The occupational perspective of geographers and planners had drastically changed over the past decades. Whereas they used to operate mainly on the distinctly defined primary labourmarkets, labourmarkets that were directly related
to their education, they have now also started operating on a number of secondary markets. As a result, the occupational perspective has become more diffuse. Not only in the Netherlands but also in other countries there is a process going on in which the fact
British Columbia ; Canada ; Economic restructuring ; Flexibility ; Industrial branch ; Industry ; Labour ; Labourmarket ; 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.