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Labor unions: a public health institution. [PDF]
Using a social-ecological framework, we drew on a targeted literature review and historical and contemporary cases from the US labor movement to illustrate how unions address physical and psychosocial conditions of work and the underlying inequalities ...
Malinowski, Beth +2 more
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The article analyses the concept of «human capital» and highlights the most important of its components. It emphasizes and proves the importance of investing in human capital, substantiates the importance of innovation culture as an important aspect of ...
M. Barsuk, A. Lyutina, P. Kapyrin
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Trends in the aggregate labor force [PDF]
Trend growth in the labor force is a key determinant of trends in employment and gross domestic product (GDP). Forecasts by Macroeconomic Advisers (MA) have long anticipated a marked slowing in trend growth of the labor force that would contribute to a ...
Kenneth J. Matheny
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An Unemployment Re-Insurance Scheme for the Eurozone? Stabilizing and Redistributive Effects: Summary of the study [PDF]
The study summarized here is the first analysis to evaluate an unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro area as regards potential stabilizing and redistributive effects.
Dolls, Mathias
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Union Power, Minimum Wage Legislation, Endogenous Labor Supplies and Production [PDF]
The objective of this work is to study the impact of the unions bargaining power on production and wages. We present a model where a competitive final good is produced through two substitutable intermediate goods, one produced by unskilled labor and the ...
Daniel Cardona, Fernando Sanchez Losada
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In this article, we assess whether unionization of national workforces influences growth in national carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per capita. Political-economic theories in environmental sociology propose that labor unions have the potential to affect ...
Alvarez, Camila Huerta +2 more
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Trends in U.S. Hours and the Labor Wedge [PDF]
From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household’s marginal rate of substitution
Alexander Ueberfeldt, Simona E. Cociuba
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Constraints on the Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan [PDF]
We examine a number of personnel practices, laws and regulations that lower the supply of labor in the Japanese economy. Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of impediments, those that restrict the movement of labor between firms, and those that ...
Hiroshi Ono, Marcus E. Rebick
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Labor Potential of Young People: Demands of Contemporary Labor Market
Galina Leonidova, Kirill Dimoni
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The Employment Potential of Labor Intensive Industries in India’s Organized Manufacturing [PDF]
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential.
Deb Kusum Das +2 more
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