Revisiting the Old Industrial Region: Adaptation and Adjustment in an Integrating Europe [PDF]
, 2006 The position of old industrial regions (OIRs) has been neglected in recent regional development research, partly as a result of dominant discourses concerned with concepts such as the knowledge economy, learning regions and the new regionalism.
Birch, Kean +2 more
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Multinational Companies and Labour Relations in Hungary: between Home Country - Host Country Effects and Global Tendencies [PDF]
This paper will approach the role of multinational companies (MNCs) in shaping Hungarian labour relations in a broader context. Departing from an overview of macroeconomic developments of the last two decades, all levels and aspects of labour relations ...
Jeno Koltay
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The evolution of national social dialogue in Europe under the single market, 1992-2006 [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the evolution of national social dialogue (bipartite wage bargaining) across European countries. Several commentators in the 1990s expected the dismantling of national social dialogue institutions.
Kornelakis, Andreas
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Economic Crisis, Innovation Strategies and Firm Performance. Evidence from Italian Firm-level Data [PDF]
Several empirical works have shown the robust and positive relation between growth and innovation at macroeconomic level and between firm economic performance and innovation at microeconomic level.
Annaflavia Bianchi +4 more
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جامعه شناسی کاربردی, 2013 Introduction Human resources are among the most valuable sources of getting to the targets of any organization or system and are deemed as among the most prominent assets of any organization.
Akbar Zareshahabadi, ,
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Collective bargaining centralisation against all odds? The Italian telecommunications industry after market liberalization [PDF]
, 2012 The widespread trends towards markets liberalisation, decline in trade union power, and flexible work organization were expected to push collective bargaining institutions to converge to a decentralised bargaining structure.
Kornelakis, Andreas
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Have industrial relations in the UK really improved? [PDF]
The number of strikes reported in British industry has been on a downward trend over the past two decades, falling in 1998 to their lowest level since records began.
Peter Ingram, Stephen Drinkwater
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[Review of the book \u3ci\u3eStudies of Urban Labour Market Behaviour in Developing Areas\u3c/i\u3e] [PDF]
, 1980 [Excerpt] In the 1970s social scientists from all disciplines became aware that an understanding of how labor markets function is central to determining who benefits from economic growth.
Fields, Gary S
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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wage Inequality and Employment in the Formal and Informal Sector in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2001 This paper tests the impact of the Costa Rican minimum wage policy on wage inequality and the level of employment in the formal sector (covered by minimum wage legislation) and the informal (uncovered) sector.
Hamidi, Fatma El, Terrell, Katherine
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Measuring the economic impact of immigration: A scoping paper [PDF]
, 2005 This discussion paper has three objectives. Firstly, it provides a brief review of recent international empirical research on the labour market impact of immigration.
Cochrane, William, Poot, Jacques
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