local labour

Labour Pains
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Decentralisation of active labour market policy: The case of Swedish local employment service committees [An article from: Journal of Public Economics]
$10.95
This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Public Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
Decentralisation of decision-making in labour market policy may increase efficiency, since local authorities have first-hand knowledge about local labour market problems. However, decentralisation may also be associated with fiscal externalities generating misallocation. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a Swedish pilot programme in 1996, which strengthened the role of the local authorities in labour market policy in certain regions. Our econometric findings do not indicate any increase in geographical lock-in of the unemployed, but decentralisation seems to spur local initiatives in the form of projects organised by the municipalities and increase targeting on outsiders in the labour market. The latter result is consistent with the hypothesis that municipalities used their increasing influence in order to improve municipal budgets at the expense of the central government.

The Betrayal of Local 14 (ILR Press books)
$22.95
I had Getman for labor law and that's why I bought this book. I'm passing it on to my sister who practice labor and employment law because I know she'll really enjoy it. It's a good book for someone who wants to get a picture of how unions work, internal politics and all, and the emotions involved in a labor strike. An objectiver look from an interesting guy who really knows this area of law.

Global Management, Local Labour: Turkish Workers and Modern Industry
$79.95
Little discussion about "globalization" has concerned one of the truly global forces--the management of multi-national and large domestic corporations--and the significance of modern management practices for workers in the developing world. This book examines the nature of work in the modern corporate sector in Turkey with special reference to three industries, white goods, cars and textiles. Based on extensive interviews, it questions some common assumptions in the modern western social science literature, especially in North America and Britain.