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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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Apprentice pay in Britain, Germany and Switzerland: Institutions, market forces and market power [PDF]

, 2012
This is the accepted version of the original publication in the European Journal of Industrial Relations, which is available online at http://ejd.sagepub.com/content/19/3/201.The pay of metalworking apprentices is high in Britain, middling in Germany and
Backes-Gellner, U, Ryan, P, Teuber, S, Wagner, K   +3 more
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Enhancing Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Determinants and Indicators of Successful University–Industry Collaboration

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both universities and companies create value and innovation to maintain their position and remain competitive. Different, but still similar, with two goals that are shared. With their collaboration, they can enhance their pursuit of sustainability and as well corporate social responsibility by creating and delivering value and thus ...
Jana Hojnik, Štefan Bojnec, Simona Kustec, Vaida Zemlickienė, Zenonas Turskis   +4 more
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Talent Management in SMEs: Unraveling the Role of Contextual Factors

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Employing a multiple case study analysis, this paper explores the contextual factors—internal, external, and relational—that affect small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in designing their approaches to talent management (TM). Results underscore the significance of two prominent internal variables—namely, organizational size and ownership ...
Franca Cantoni, Caterina Muzzi, Martina Gianecchini   +2 more
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Fraudulent Contracting of Work: Abusing the Posting of Workers (Belgium, Finland and Italy) [PDF]

, 2017
[Excerpt] Regulated at European level, the posting of workers is a practice used between companies located in different countries A worker is posted when their original employer sends them to work, for a temporary period, in another company.
Eurofound
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Coplanarity Index for Potential Slip Systems Predicting in Plastic Semiconductors

Interdisciplinary Materials, EarlyView.
A clustering‐inspired coplanarity index is proposed in this work, a quantitative descriptor that captures the degree of quasi‐coplanarity nature among atomic layers, enabling fast geometric screening of potential slip planes in functional semiconductors with complex structure. ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in room‐temperature plastic semiconductors,
Xingyan Dong, Yongqiang Yan, Zihang Liu, Yu‐Ke Zhu, Jianbo Zhu, Lankun Wang, Jinsuo Hu, Kuai Yu, Muchun Guo, Ming Liu, Fengkai Guo, Ge Wu, Wei Cai, Zhi‐Wei Shan, Jiehe Sui   +14 more
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Skills Training Works: Examining the Evidence [PDF]

, 2002
In spite of public consensus that education and training lead to economic advancement, recent federal policies have made it harder for low-income Americans to get the education and training they need to succeed in today's economy.
Andy Van Kleunen, Jenny Wittner, Robin Spence, Whitney Smith   +3 more
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The agency of a marmalade machine: Gender, class and mechanical gadgets in the British Kitchen, c.1870–1938

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
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Quality from Kent: Preliminary results from the analysis of fifth‐ to seventh‐century silver alloys

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores early results from the chemical and lead isotope analysis of 30 silver‐alloy objects from southeast England dating between the fifth and seventh centuries CE, presenting limited aspects of the three main analyses that were conducted. First, a comparison of the results gained from surface x‐ray fluorescence (pXRF) values and
Toby F. Martin, Matthew J. Ponting
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The Provenance of Silver in the Viking‐Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The acquisition of silver was a key motive propelling the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia; identifying the sources of Viking silver during the early part of the Viking Age can provide critical insights into the relative significance of western European and eastern, Islamic wealth in the Viking expansion.
Jane Kershaw, Stephen Merkel, Andrew Woods, Jane Evans, Vanessa Pashley, Simon Chenery   +5 more
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