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Business groups’ internal labour markets and SME labour productivity
Labour market regulation constrains small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) ability to minimize redundant labour. However, it is often neglected...
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Labour Market Interventions to Reduce the Disability Unemployment Gap
In this main theoretical chapter of the book, the canonical search model, the Mortensen–Pissarides model, is used to examine the relative efficacy of...
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Endogenous rural dynamics: an analysis of labour markets, human resource practices and firm performance
Some rural locations in industrialized countries have experienced considerable employment growth in the last decades, while others suffer from...
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Labour Mobility and Tourism. Challenges and Opportunities for Decent and Sustainable Work in the Tourism Sector. The Case of Greece
Travel and Tourism industry plays a key role in economic growth and job creation across the world. The travel sector offers employment opportunities...
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Education and earnings: examining the returns across regular, casual, and self-employed labour markets
This study examines the trends of returns to education in India using unit-level data from the National Periodic Labour Force Survey conducted in the...
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Factor Mobility, Tax Base Mobility and Tax Competition
This chapter analyses the changes in tax and redistribution linked to the increasing mobility of capital, of firms and of high-skilled and talented...
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Mobility in Urban Areas
Already today, AI applications are in use in urban mobility for traffic management systems, repair and maintenance, autonomous driving and mobility...
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Alternative Perspectives on Immigrant Accommodation to Society: Implications for Organising, the Labour Market, and Workplace Integration
The key focus of our analysis in this chapter is on three different perspectives of immigrants’ accommodation to the host society that are, based on...
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The Italian Non-model. Integrating Immigrant Labour in Practice
This chapter aims to highlight the complexity of the Italian case in relation to immigrants’ integration at work. After an initial framing aimed at...
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Labour: Obstacles and Opportunities
One of the key attractions for Special Economic Zones in develo** economies is usually their relatively lower wages. As China’s wage rates continue...
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Education and Labour Market Inequalities in South Africa
Framed within notions of social justice, inequality of opportunity and Bourdieu’s forms of capital, this chapter examines the gaps in educational and...
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Adaptation or Protest: Evaluation of the Employees Sentiments Under Labour Market Transformation
The possible behaviour patterns of employees in various professional spheres in the situation of proposed changes in labour relations connected with...
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Industry and Market Dynamics
Grant’s (1995) introduction of the notion of “survival” into critical success factors raised an interesting and important distinction between...
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Right of association and new business entry: country-level evidence from the market sector
Labor market institutions (LMIs) could enable new firm entry by lowering burdens to attracting and retaining human capital or restrict new firm entry...
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Drivers and outcomes of smallholder market participation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Despite agriculture being a significant contributor to sub-Saharan Africa’s economy, its exploding population puts the region at the highest global...
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How has the COVID-19 pandemic shaped behavior in crowdsourcing? The role of online labor market training
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdown measures have been a shock to market systems worldwide, affecting both the supply...
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Some Ideas about the More Useful Methodological Approach to the Question of What Kind of Role for Labour Law in a Human Centred Post COVID Recovery
This chapter provides some reflections about the possible ways to regain the central role of Labour Law in a future human centred economic system, in...
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Women, Work, and Labor Market Precarity in the Caribbean: A Socio-Historical Perspective
The representations of women’s work in the Caribbean and the level of precarity that has been sustained, experienced, and contested within critical...
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e-mobility in the Age of COVID-19
COVID-19 has deeply affected the global economy, and people’s lives are becoming the priority of governments’ agendas. The sales of several...
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Transformation of the Higher Education Services Market: Comparative Analysis by OECD Countries
The research hypothesis consists in the scientific assumption that in modern conditions there is a transformation of the market of higher education...