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Guest workers: Adequate incentives for voluntary return [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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

open access: yesSSM: Population Health, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Integration Routes Between Social Work and Voluntary Work: A Sociohistorical Perspective

open access: yesمجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

What future for voluntary children's residential providers in Ireland?

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Monogamy promotes altruistic sterility in insect societies [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2018
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
doaj   +1 more source

Do Factory Audits Improve International Labor Standards? An Examination of Voluntary Corporate Labor Regulations in Global Production Networks

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2018
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
doaj   +1 more source

„Nicht für Erich Honecker früher oder heute für Angela Merkel, sondern für sich selber“ – Eine Fallstudie zu ehrenamtlichen Engagementformen im ländlichen Raum zwischen gesellschaftspolitischen Ansprüchen und individuellen Wahrnehmungen

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

Health or harm? A cohort study of the importance of job quality in extended workforce participation by older adults

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2016
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
doaj   +1 more source

Healthcare workers’ perceptions and experiences of implementing voluntary medical male circumcision in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Explaining Cross-National Variations in the Prevalence and Character of Undeclared Employment in the European Union [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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.
core   +1 more source

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