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All in it Together? the Unlikely Rebirth of Covid Corporatism / Coulter, Steve   Journal Article
Coulter, Steve Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The battle to soften the labour market impact of the pandemic has thrown up some unlikely bedfellows, with trade union leaders competing with business chiefs over who can most fulsomely praise the government’s economic response. But does this entente really presage a new era of ‘Covid‐corporatism’? Crises like Covid‐19 can provide opportunities for temporary social pacts, even in countries lacking the labour market institutions needed to sustain these in normal times, and the ‘social partners’ have shown an unusual willingness to be bold and constructive. But cracks are already appearing over how and when the state should begin its withdrawal from the economy. Unions face structural weaknesses and recruitment problems that will hamper their ability to take full advantage of what will likely prove to be only a temporary lull in hostilities.
Key Words Labour market  Covid Corporatis 
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Analysing quits and separations form the royal navy / Jaffry, Shabbar; Ghulam, Yaseen; Apostolakis, Alexandros   Journal Article
Jaffry, Shabbar Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract Manning difficulties and retention of skilled personnel is a timely issue in the British armed forces, and especially in the all-volunteer Royal Navy. Allied with difficulties of matching personnel numbers and posts, significant skill mismatches can take a long time to eradicate, with obvious financial and operational penalties. In the light of these factors, a holistic understanding of the exit behaviour of naval personnel is vital for naval manpower planners. This paper analyses ratings' voluntary (quits) and involuntary (separation) exit patterns from the Royal Navy using an independent competing risks hazard regression analysis framework. The results show that both voluntary and involuntary exits are pro cyclical with respect to macroeconomic and labour market conditions for both male and female ratings. Male ratings are more likely to quit or separate due to a lack of promotion to higher ranks as compared with females. Male ratings are also more likely to quit as a result of a hectic operational tempo when compared with their female counterparts. Frequency of sea/shore deployments also seems to exert a significant effect with respect to quits and separation outcomes of both genders. In terms of marital status married males are less likely to quit compared with their unmarried male counterparts, whereas the opposite is the case for female ratings.
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Analysing the Gig Economy in India and Exploring Various Effective Regulatory Methods to Improve the Plight of the Workers / Vedant Choudhary; Shambhulinganand S. Shireshi   Journal Article
Vedant Choudhary Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Over the past decades, there has been a steady increase in the number of people involved in ‘flexible’ labour, more commonly known as ‘gig’ work. This has stimulated discussions over its various characteristics, including the lifestyle, mental health, fair treatment and overall well-being of gig workers. This article seeks to understand how the plight of gig workers can be reduced by effective regulation. For this, the authors identify seven characteristic features of the gig economy that harm the workers’ well-being. Then, the authors explain mechanisms in which the plight of these workers resulting from these seven factors can be reduced through efficient regulation. For this, the authors incorporate particular suggestions offered by some scholars outside India and modify them to suit the Indian context better. The authors also forward novel methods to regulate the gig economy. This article first defines and describes the gig economy. After that, it discusses various aspects like the quality of life, position of women and workplace dynamics of the gig economy. Then, this article recommends seven ways in which the sufferings of the workers can be reduced, and the gig economy can be better regulated in India.
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Analysis of the determinants of wage and salary differentials in Bangladesh / Hossain , Kazi Abrar ; Haque, Sharjil Muktafi ; Haque, A K Enamul   Article
Kazi Abrar Hossain Article
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Summary/Abstract The Gini Index suggests that income inequality is a highly prevalent phenomenon in Southeast Asia (The World Bank, 2012a). As Zaman and Akita (2012) points out, differentials in income is especially prominent in Bangladesh. Our article investigates which factors create differentials in income in Bangladesh. Using data from the Household Income Expenditure Survey published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, we estimated two separate models—one for daily wage and one for annual salary. We found that education, age (which was used as a proxy for labour market experience), gender and place of work significantly brought about differentials in daily wage rates. We also observed that all four of the above variables, along with different types of occupations, caused differentials in annual salary. We conclude by making several policy recommendations to address these findings.
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Borders of solidarity? trade unions, social entitlements and re / Thomas, Adrien   Journal Article
Thomas, Adrien Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract This article explores the effects of borders on the making of trade union policies and on their capacity to act. It takes as an entry-point the reform of Luxembourg's system of family allowances and financial support for students in 2010, which redefined the group of beneficiaries and partly excluded cross-border workers from neighbouring countries. This led to heated debates in Luxembourg and in the Greater Region (comprising Luxembourg, Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Lorraine and Wallonia) during which trade unions played an important part. The author explores the contradictory logics of both competition and cooperation within the Greater Region. These lead to a gap between integration as a discourse and what it means for local populations, in particular regarding labour market competition. The debates within trade unions on the issue of social entitlements for cross-border workers offer insights into the dynamics of this dichotomy and into the everyday fabric of cross-border social relations.
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Constrained agencies: the emergence of Singapore's distinctive temporary staffing industry / Yip, Amanda ; Coe, Neil M   Journal Article
Amanda Yip Neil M. Coe Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This paper presents the first economic geography study of Singapore's temporary staffing industry. Drawing on secondary data and semi‐structured interviews with trade association representatives and senior executives from temporary staffing agencies, it examines the structure and characteristics of Singapore's industry and, more specifically, how its distinctive institutional configuration influences the activities of staffing agencies and the industry's overall trajectory. While temporary staffing in Singapore has experienced steady growth since the turn of the millennium, growth is ultimately constrained by both Singapore's regulatory environment and the inherent nature of its labour market. As such, the temporary staffing industry is still relatively small today, and has become increasingly saturated with strong competition between transnational and domestic agencies. Empirically, analysis of the Singapore case contributes to the wider literature on temporary staffing markets by profiling the nature and growth dynamics of a small and emerging temporary staffing market. Conceptually, the study reveals under‐studied aspects in current work relating to how the market is shaped by intersections with shifting global divisions of labour, the nature of the state's managed immigration regime and elements of national labour‐market culture.
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Controlling immigration manually: lessons from Moscow (Russia) / Schenk, Caress   Journal Article
Schenk, Caress Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract In 2007, the Russian government instituted quotas for immigrant work permits that were consistently lower than actual labour demand. While low quotas are politically popular on the mass level, this article argues that low quotas are also a tool of the government to distribute patronage resources to regional political and economic elites. For several years after quotas were instituted, they remained quite controversial, and during this time decisions about them were firmly in the hands of Vladimir Putin, first as president and then as prime minister, giving him a powerful tool to control the immigration process and labour market manually. While this type of manual control is effective in the short term to manage contentious policy arenas, it suffers a number of possible long-term consequences.
Key Words Regional Politics  Russia  Labour market  Vladimir Putin  Immigrant  Labour Demand 
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Determinants of job search intensity in Ghana / Nyarko, Christopher Opoku; Boateng, William Baah; Amponsah, Edward Nketiah   Journal Article
Nyarko, Christopher Opoku Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract The success of individuals in securing employment requires a significant search effort. This article presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of job search intensity among a cross-section of workers in Accra, Ghana. Based on a sample of 404 workers drawn from 100 formal sector firms in Accra, we adopt the Poisson regression estimation technique to indicate that age, years of schooling, labour market experience, sex of household head, firm size and ethnic group significantly influence job search intensity. Measures to expose young job seekers to the world of work via internship and apprenticeship could accelerate their transition to employment.
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Determinants of self-employment in China: evidence from cross-regional data / Kun Li; Zhao, Changwen   Journal Article
Zhao, Changwen Journal Article
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Publication 2011.
Summary/Abstract This paper presents and tests a series of sources of regional variations in self-employment rate in China in the 2000s, and illustrates that the stage of economic development is a major explanation for the variations of self-employment rate across regions over the past decade. The negative relationship between the stage of economic development and self-employment rate identified in the paper indicates that China has entered the process of fast industrialization, and self-employment is playing a diminishing role in economic growth and employment. We also find a substitution effect between self-employment and private enterprises. While both are important components of China's private sector, private enterprises are becoming an increasingly important source of China's economic growth and employment. Furthermore, our findings also imply that when job opportunities are limited, self-employment in China is likely a forced choice of disadvantaged people who are not qualified for wage jobs.
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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labour Market in Thailand / Chairassamee, Nattanicha ; Hean, Oudom   Journal Article
Nattanicha Chairassamee, Oudom Hean Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This study aims to explore the labour market in Thailand during the COVID-19 era. By using individual data from the National Statistical Office of Thailand, we estimate the probability of a worker becoming unemployed and being temporarily absent from work. The results demonstrate that the pandemic could cause a higher chance of being unemployed for younger workers. However, the chance of being temporarily absent from work increased for older and less-educated workers. Each sector was affected differently by the pandemic. Workers in large firms were more likely to be unemployed, suggesting that the pandemic disproportionately affected large firms, compared to micro, small or medium-sized enterprises.
Key Words Thailand  Labour market  COVID-1  Sectoral Unemployment 
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Employment of master’s degree graduates in Kazakhstan: navigating an uncertain labour market / Jonbekova, Dilrabo   Journal Article
Jonbekova, Dilrabo Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article explores the employment experiences of government scholarship graduates from one master’s degree programme at a flagship university in Kazakhstan. Analysis of interviews with graduates of a master’s degree programme designed in response to a national policy agenda shows that graduates encountered numerous challenges transitioning from university to work despite obtaining a degree from a top Kazakhstani university. The key challenges included limited employment opportunities, hostile attitudes toward younger graduates, difficult working conditions and employers’ misunderstanding of the new master’s programmes. We argue that despite significant government financial investment in education, a weak enabling support system hinders graduates’ career advancement and results in job mismatch and underutilization of skills. We suggest that policymakers need to shift debates on human capital development and graduate employability from supply-side factors to a more comprehensive model in which graduate employment is supported through the collaboration of the higher education system, industry, policymakers and graduates themselves.
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Ethical deficit of the United Kingdom's proposed universal cred: pimping the precariat? / Dean, Hartley   Journal Article
Dean, Hartley Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Summary/Abstract Universal Credit is a proposed means-tested cash benefit scheme in the UK that will serve, inter alia, to top-up the wages of low-paid workers. This article will argue first, that the moral justification for the scheme that is offered by the UK government is specious; second that the reconfiguration of existing wage top-ups may be counterproductive and will in any event do little, if anything, to promote the work ethic; third, that the new scheme will not relieve but add to the injustices borne by the 'precariat' (the workers engaged in low-paid precarious employment); finally, that far from having a justifiable moral purpose, Universal Credit is ethically flawed.
Key Words Ethics  Labour market  Universal Credit  Wage Top - Ups  Precariat  Decent Work 
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Expanding role of temporary help agencies in Japan's emerging e / Imai, Jun   Journal Article
Imai, Jun Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract The key role of temporary help agencies in the expansion of the external market for labor in Japan is the subject of this article. As a result of deregulatory changes in and after 1999 in Japan, the temporary help industry has impacted on changes in firms' reliance on external labor. Based on a survey of and interviews at temporary agency firms, we found considerable heterogeneity among THAs. One segment of large agencies exhibited a strong market orientation in supplying business services, while two other segments of THAs were continuing, to varying degrees, to draw their business from either capital-related or parent companies within their groups.
Key Words Japan  Labour market  THA  Temporary Help Agencies 
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Female Employers and their Maids in New Delhi: This is Our Culture / Basnet, Chudamani ; Sandhya, A S   Journal Article
Chudamani Basnet Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The domestic labour market in India reflects how various classes of women manage their daily lives, whether as employers of domestic workers or as employees. The cultural underpinnings of various intersecting relationships implicated in this scenario have remained underresearched in India. Based on a qualitative study in a specific neighbourhood of New Delhi, this article shows that certain cultural strategies pursued by female employers explain their differential behaviour towards specific groups of maids. Observing that these female employers in Delhi prefer Nepali maids over native Indians, even if the latter are willing to work for lower wages, we set out to analyse why and how these employers evaluate immigrant Nepali maids as sharing ‘our’ culture, while native Indians are classified as the cultural ‘other’.
Key Words Caste  India  Nepal  Women  Muslims  Labour market 
Domestic Workers  COVID-19  Maids 
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Flow into employement of scientists, engineers and technologists: report of the workshop Group on manpower for scientific growth. / Great Britain; Committee on manpower resources for science and technology, working group on manpower for scientific growth. 1968  Book
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Publication London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1968.
Description viii, 185p.
Key Words Labour market 
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For bed and board only: women and girl children domestic workers in post-partition Calcutta (1951-1981) / Chakravarty, Ishita; Chakravarty, Deepita   Journal Article
Chakravarty, Ishita Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract This paper attempts to see how a particular labour market (domestic service), a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in the post-partition Indian state of West Bengal, and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. It argues that the downward trend in industrial job opportunities in post independent West Bengal, accompanied by the large scale immigration of men, women and children from bordering East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), led to a general decline in wage rate for those in domestic service. Poor refugee women, in their frantic search for a means of survival, gradually drove out the males of the host population who were engaged in domestic service in urban West Bengal by offering to work for a very low wage and often for no wage at all. As poor males from the neighbouring states of Bihar, Orissa and the United Provinces constituted historically a substantial section of Calcutta domestic workers, it was mainly this group who were replaced by refugee women. The second stage in the changing profile of domestic service since the 1970s in urban West Bengal was arguably set by migrating girl children from different parts of the state to Calcutta city in search of employment. This is probably why West Bengal had the highest girl children's work-participation rate in urban India in 2001.
Key Words Immigration  Bihar  Women  Labour market  Children  East Pakistan 
West Bengal  Orissa  Men  Post - Partition Indian State 
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ID:   087021


Gendering liberalisation and labour reform in Malaysia: fostering 'competitiveness' in the productive and reproductive economies / Elias, Juanita   Journal Article
Elias, Juanita Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract This paper seeks to examine how and why gender needs to be brought into the analysis of state developmentalism in Asia. In doing so, the paper focuses on ongoing processes of labour market and industrial relations reform that have accompanied Malaysia's economic development since the early 1970s. Understanding these reforms from a gender perspective means that we must recognise both the significant contribution that women make to the growth of export manufacturing industries and the role that social relations of reproduction play in underpinning economic reform and transformation. The analysis explores how gendered social relations (of production and reproduction) have been central to the labour politics of Malaysia's state-led developmentalism and how ideas of maintaining 'competitiveness' through the attempts to transition to a more knowledge-centred economy have entailed particular roles and responsibilities for women. Attempts to maintain economic competitiveness in Malaysia have rested upon ideas concerning the need to integrate women more fully into the formal labour market and a greater recognition of the contribution of social relations of reproduction to capitalist accumulation. The article discusses some of the tensions and contradictions that have emanated from this policy shift.
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Global recession, labour market adjustment and international pr: evidence from the Thai automotive industry / Kohpaiboon, Archanun; Kulthanavit, Pisut; Vijitnopparat, Prasert; Soonthornchawakan, Nongnuch   Journal Article
Kohpaiboon, Archanun Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
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Globalization and labour markets in boom and crisis: the case of Vietnam / Manning, Chris   Journal Article
Manning, Chris Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
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Holding up half the sky? ethno-gender labour market outcomes in China / Cherng, Hua-Yu Sebastian; Hasmath, Reza ; Benjamin Ho   Journal Article
Hasmath, Reza Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Studies looking at gender and ethnic minority outcomes in China’s labour market have generally suggested that women and minorities are separately experiencing a wage disadvantage relative to males and the Han majority, respectively. But, what is the experience of this combined cohort, ethnic minority women? Using data from China’s 2005 one percent mini-census, this article discerns ethno-gender labour market outcomes by factoring education, labour force participation, working hours, age, family structure (e.g. married, number of dependents) and geography (e.g. urban/rural, bordering province). It surprisingly finds that ethnic minority women are less disadvantaged in the labour market than Han women. This is largely due to smaller penalties linked to marriage and having children.
Key Words China  Ethnic Minority  Labour market  Han Majority 
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