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Guest workers: Adequate incentives for voluntary return [PDF]
A guest-worker program can be a very flexible and convenient way of meeting labor shortages in a host country, assuming that the migrants obey the rules.
Djajić, Slobodan +1 more
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Part-time work and health in the United States: The role of state policies
Part-time work is a common work arrangement in the United States that can be precarious, insecure, and lacking opportunities for advancement. In turn, part-time work, especially involuntary part-time work, tends to be associated with worse health ...
Rachel Donnelly, Adam Schoenbachler
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Integration Routes Between Social Work and Voluntary Work: A Sociohistorical Perspective
The research problem is to determine the nature of the historical relationship between the profession of social work and volunteer work. Consequently, the research aims to investigate the nature of this relationship from a socio-historical perspective ...
Emad Farouk Saleh +2 more
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What future for voluntary children's residential providers in Ireland?
In Ireland, voluntary provision of children's residential services has a history that predates the foundation of the Irish State. Voluntary providers have thus endured regardless of wars, economic crises, social upheavals, scandals, pandemics, and many ...
Martin Power, David Power
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Monogamy promotes altruistic sterility in insect societies [PDF]
Monogamy is associated with sibling-directed altruism in multiple animal taxa, including insects, birds and mammals. Inclusive-fitness theory readily explains this pattern by identifying high relatedness as a promoter of altruism.
Nicholas G. Davies, Andy Gardner
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This research examined the effects of voluntary factory audits on labor conditions. Sometimes referred to as corporate social responsibility (CSR) codes of conduct, corporations impose voluntary labor standards coupled with regular auditing to help ...
Scott R. Sanders +2 more
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For several years now, volunteer activity has been increasingly placed at the center of a political discourse monopolizing it for politics of dealing with socio- and spatio-political problems.
Tom Schwarzenberg +2 more
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Background As people are living longer, they are being encouraged to work longer. While it is assumed that extended employment will be good for health, the evidence has been mixed.
Jennifer Welsh +4 more
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Background: Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) is an effective HIV prevention strategy prioritized by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for regions of high HIV prevalence, South Africa (SA) and in particular KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) is one of such ...
Celenkosini T. Nxumalo, Gugu G. Mchunu
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Explaining Cross-National Variations in the Prevalence and Character of Undeclared Employment in the European Union [PDF]
The aim of this article is to evaluate the competing theories that variously explain the greater prevalence of undeclared employment in some countries either as: a legacy of under-development; a result of the voluntary exit from declared employment due ...
Williams, Colin C.
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