... of workers quitting their job, described as labour mobility or exit, has indeed been countered to worker voice and presented as an individualistic, opportunistic behaviour taken autonomously by workers, as opposed to engaging in labour collective voice over effort bargaining (usually expressed through trade...

...This chapter focuses on welfare and pension benefits in the European Union. It describes how tensions between labour mobility and social solidarity affect the harmonization of social welfare regimes across the Union. An analogous situation existed at the time when a national Poor Law policy...

... strikes Northern Ireland bodily appearance diet Welshman J Male identities Body Work and masculinity Unemployment and training Labour mobility Labour Party and unemployment Workfare Margaret Bondfield ‘On the whole’, Beatrice Webb confided to her diary in 1929, ‘we are satisfied...

... taking place in the treatment of regular full-time workers in Japan. Among the developments examined are the introduction of performance-related pay, flattening of the age-earnings profile, specialist training, and shorter working hours. Looks at trends in labour mobility and concludes that long-term...

... by the continuing flows of emigration from Britain. Emigrants from Britain headed for the existing white settler societies. Possibilities of labour mobility within the 20th-century British Empire were apparently revealed by the immigration into Britain of workers of non-European ethnic origin. It is important...

... ), Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market (Oxford: Oxford University Press). McCormick, B. ( 1997 ), ‘ Regional unemployment and labour mobility in the UK ’, European Economic Review , 41/3–5, 581–9. Nickell, S. J. ( 1997 ), ‘ Unemployment and labor...

... design that is compatible with national and international labour mobility, fragmented family structures, and international competitive pressures. A particular question is whether it is possible to design pensions that have not only the advantages of defined‐contribution schemes (improved labour mobility...

... withdrawals leakage loans Moore J H Muller L A investment risk pension education retirement Utkus S P Helman R Hurd M D longevity McGarry K Enron irrational behavior annuities labour mobility job change mortality risk legal environment retirement insecurity The only section...

... flexible, jobs would be lost. Immigration has no effect on low-skilled workers but a positive effect on the wages of high-skilled workers. Trade affects labour mobility, with increasing imports adversely impacting occupational mobility and intra-firm flexibility. Germany migration immigration Canada...

... residents Bound J brain drain innovation Turner S Walsh P Canada immigration Branstetter L citations Griliches Z Jaffe A Pakes A patents Peri G Ph Ds Trajtenberg M Europe higher education innovation economic growth brain drain immigration labour mobility The recent growth performance...

... and political choices around the framework regulating posted work not only for posted workers, but for the role of collectively organized labour in democratic governance overall. cross border labour mobility European integration process free movement labour mobility legal frameworks political economy...

...This chapter reveals that the concerns of how labour mobility should be structured and in whose interests underpinned the politics of migration throughout the period of post-war Keynesianism. It examines how emigration policy came into existence and then moves on to immigration policy...

... Christian Association Passmore John R placement in work public works ‘reconditioning’ Cole G D H Committee on Empire Migration social service Oversea Settlement Board Imperialism Emigration National identity Race and Empire settlement Training Unemployment Labour mobility While most radicals...

... have been brought into sharp focus by the latest recession, suggesting that the government must consider appropriate policies for the regeneration of the other areas of the UK. commuting employment rates Jackman R labour mobility Savouri S Smith D unemployment Davis S financial services Gregg...

...This chapter shows that a model that captures the interconnections between firm dynamics, labour mobility, and specific human capital provides new explanations for and predictions on the US–Japanese differences in labour mobility, wage structure, and firm-sponsored training, based on cross-country...

... 14 928 Dig 5 1 19 2 migrant networks rental market female mobility labour market labour mobility population size livelihood urban economy temporary labour permanent labour male migrants female migrants The working stratum, as opposed to a class in the purely economic sense, includes...

... to combating poverty and reducing global inequality. Across major economies significant skill gaps are jeopardizing growth—there is evidence of mismatch between the supply of and demand for skills across a wide gamut of sectors. Excessive segmentation in labour mobility that resists and restricts the movement...

... in motion forces which are creating a demand for labour mobility across borders and is, at the same time, developing institutions on the supply side to meet this demand, to suggest that the ageing of industrial societies may reinforce this process through demographic change and population imbalances...

...This chapter discusses a series of forward‐looking issues: methods of bringing private finance into tertiary education; student loans in the context of international labour mobility; extending loans beyond higher education; and developing individual learning accounts. classification problem higher...

... liberalization GATS e-commerce CETA services domestic regulation EU environmental services labour mobility In the past decade, the European Union (EU) has constantly been exporting more services to non-EU countries than it imported, with a (temporary) maximum of services exports of €1.072 trillion...