scholarly journals Transition and the change of economic structure of the population of Vojvodina between two censuses

2006 ◽  
pp. 269-280
Author(s):  
Sofija Adzic
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Basic Criterion ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Historical Heritage

In this work, the changes in the economic structure of the population of Vojvodina are considered between two censuses of population, limiting the beginning (1991) and the end of the first stage of transition (2002). Defining the transition as an attempt of the creation of a modern market economy, the author defined the development of human capital as the basic criterion for the analysis, developed as a special methodological concept based upon the category of labor and supplemented with various demograhpic criteria as health status, education, national structure and historical heritage. The performed analysis indicates that unevenly distributed transitional depression, various local and subregional demographic factors complex ethnical structure, historical heritage and the related problems of separatism, particularism and neglect of common interests impose the purposeful division of labour market to partial subregional labour markets aimed, on the basis of network organization, for a more efficient neutralization of these problems.

Industrial Restructuring and Labour-Market Adjustment under Positive Noninterventionism: The Case of Hong Kong

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
T-L Lui ◽  
S Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Tertiary Sector ◽  
Market Strategy ◽  
Market Strategies

This paper is an attempt to probe the interactions of economic restructuring and labour-market development in the process of industrial development in contemporary Hong Kong. The discussion is mainly divided into two parts. First is an examination of the development of the Hong Kong economy in the context of the changing world economy and, in particular, the effects of the structuring of the global division of labour on changes in the economic structure of Hong Kong in the 1980s. The growth of the tertiary sector and the concomitant process of deindustrialisation stand out as the two most important features of the Hong Kong economy in the 1980s and the years to come. Second the kinds of labour-market strategy developed in response to changes in the economic structure are examined. The recent debate on the importation of labour and the growing concern of industrial relocation reflect the developing pattern of labour-market adjustment. It is contended that in order to grasp the dynamics of the structuring of labour-market strategies, the interactions among the international economic environment, state policy, the formation of industrial capital, and the bargaining power of labour must be probed. The case of Hong Kong is one characterised by the dominance of small local manufacturing establishments, a noninterventionist state, underdeveloped shop-floor or labour organisations, and an industrial economy heavily dependent on exports. All these factors contribute to the constitution of the ‘Hong Kong way’ of continuing labour-intensive production and making adjustments in labour-market strategies to cope with the process of economic restructuring.

scholarly journals The Improvement of HR-management as a Factor of Increasing of Companies’ Competitiveness in the Labour Market

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (31) ◽  
pp. 340-352
Author(s):  
Kateryna Buyar
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
System Management ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Hr Management

Abstract In my article were researched market economy mechanisms for increasing the competitiveness of companies in the labour market. The paper target was to prove the need to use economic and administrative mechanisms to improve a level of competitiveness of the company in the labour market. Such researches become more important today, because after my empirical analyse of literature I can only conclude that not a lot of researchers studied in this field of science and the most theories suggest that only employees must be competitive on the labour market. But as a result of my research I can deny this one-sided view and can confirm that nowadays not just employees, but also employers compete with each other in the labour market. So, successful organizations must pay big attention to the processes of HR-management, which must be improved. But not enough attention is paid to the system of management and its impact on workers. It is important to form close links between existing system management with inherent for company effective economic management mechanisms in the companies with the level of competitiveness of the company in the labour market. So the results of my research showed that companies must develop economic and administrative mechanisms to improve their competitiveness in the labour market. These mechanisms are a set of applied styles and methods of management that have a direct impact on the loyalty of workers and consequently, enhance its competitiveness both inside the company and in external labour markets. So I can conclude that the paper target was achieved.

scholarly journals Funkcje przemysłu w potencjale społeczno-ekonomicznym centrów rozwoju województwa śląskiego

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
Anita Wiedermann
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Planned Economy ◽  
Industrial Service ◽  
Regional Labour Market ◽  
Centrally Planned Economy

Participation of industry in economic structures of the Silesian province was decreasing between 1984 and 2006. The biggest impact it had was on changes of labour markets. During the analysed period, the number of workplaces in the province decreased from 1, 714, 404 in 1984 to 1, 058, 576 in 2006, which is about 36%. In the same time, the share of industry in the regional labour market fell down from 1, 149, 319 to 503, 190 (about 56%). As a result, the participation of industry in general employment dropped down from 65% to 45%. Similar trends could be observed in changes between the economic centres of the Silesian province. The number of workplaces decreased by about 38% in regional economy, while employment in industry was reduced by about 58%. As a result, the participation of industry in general employment dropped to the level of 21%. Significant changes could be observed in the economic structure of individual centres of the province. In the years of centrally planned economy, the structure of workplaces in the centres was dominated by industrial-specialized, industrial, and industrial-service types (96,4%). In 2006, the structure was more differentiated, with the predominating types being service-industrial, industrial-service, and service ( 70,5% ).

scholarly journals The Labour Market Adjustment Of Foreign-Born Workers In Canada: A Multinomial Logit Model Of Employment Status

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Najma R. Sharif
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Logit Model ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Multinomial Logit ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Foreign Born

This paper examines how the employment profile of newcomers to Canada differs from that of the native-born, controlling for human capital and other individual characteristics, and whether that profile converges to that of the native-born as the length of residence in Canada increases. These questions are important for understanding whether (and the extent to which) foreign workers adjust to Canadian labour markets. They also have significant policy relevance, given that demographic trends in the country suggest that immigration will likely be an even more significant contributor to labour force growth in the years ahead. The econometric tool we employ is the multinomial logit model, which is estimated using data from the 2001 Census of Canada. Employment status, which is a categorical variable with several dimensions, is explained in terms of human capital, demographic and other individual characteristics, with additional controls for immigration status and variables intended to capture the impact of the length of residence of foreign workers in Canada. Since foreign workers are themselves a disparate group, entering Canada with very different socio-economic characteristics, with the potential for very different paths of subsequent adjustment to host country labour markets, we consider several foreign-born groups. This is important for capturing differences that reflect the shift in immigration away from traditional sources (e.g. the U.K) to non-traditional sources (e.g. Asia), and the implications for labour market activity and outcomes.

Tax Progression and Human Capital in Imperfect Labour Markets

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clemens Fuest ◽  
Bernd Huber
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Human Capital Investment ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Market Imperfections ◽  
Human Capital Formation ◽  
The Cost

Abstract Recent contributions to the theory of taxation argue that tax progression raises welfare and employment in the presence of labour market imperfections. This literature takes the endowment of workers with human capital as given. The present paper analyses the effects of tax progression in a model with endogenous human capital formation. We show that the effect of tax progression on human capital investment depends on the deductibility of the cost of human capital formation. With full deductibility, tax progression raises employment and welfare. With incomplete deductibility, in contrast, the effect of tax progression on employment and welfare may be negative.

scholarly journals Unemployment Duration and Labor Mobility in Argentina: A Socioeconomic-based pre- and postcrisis analysis

2009 ◽  
pp. 169-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Javier Canavire-Bacarreza
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labor Mobility ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Recovery Period ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Unemployment Duration ◽  
Labour Mobility ◽  
The Impact

This paper evaluates the unemployment duration and labor mobility using data from the household surveys provided by the National Statistical office (INDEC) for the period 1998 to 2005. The paper aims to understand and explain the evolution and main determinants of labor mobility and unemployment duration, two of the main problems that labor markets present. Unemployment duration is studied in terms of welfare and its determinants by applying stochastic dominance and econometric techniques. Labor mobility is analyzed using conditional multinomial probit techniques in order to evaluate its evolution, the impact of a crisis and the recovery period, that Argentina faced over the period 1998-2005. We found that there was deterioration in welfare measured by unemployment duration especially during the crisis period. We found that human capital played a key role in the unemployment duration and labour mobility. Unemployment duration is higher for people with higher educational levels, which shows that less educated people have lower reservations wages; similar result was found for females and males. The labour mobility results show that more educated people enter easier to formal labor markets which changes during the crisis when their probability of entering to formal labor market reduces; this would suggest that more educated people tend to adjust their wages and push out of the market less educated people. The labour mobility patterns do not reflect inflexibility in labour markets. We conclude that the apparent duality - formal and informal - in the Argentinean labour market which seems to reflect differences in access to productive resources (human capital) outside labour market is the one that determines the integration into labour markets and later labour mobility of a big part of labour force

New forms of intra-European migration, labour market dynamics and social inequality in Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Verwiebe ◽  
Laura Wiesböck ◽  
Roland Teitzer
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Market Dynamics ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
European Continent ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Migration

This article deals mainly with new forms of Intra-European migration, processes of integration and inequality, and the dynamics of emerging transnational labour markets in Europe. We discuss these issues against the background of fundamental changes which have been taking place on the European continent over the past two decades. Drawing on available comparative European data, we examine, in a first step, whether the changes in intra-European migration patterns have been accompanied by a differentiation of the causes of migration. In a second step, we discuss the extent to which new forms of transnational labour markets have been emerging within Europe and their effects on systems of social stratification.

Mismatch Between Education and Occupation: A Case Study of Pakistani Graduates.

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (4II) ◽  
pp. 531-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shujaat Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Keywords Education ◽  
Job Mismatch

In this study, an attempt has been made to estimate the incidences of job mismatch in Pakistan. The study has divided the job mismatch into three categories; education-job mismatch, qualification mismatch and field of study and job mismatch. Both the primary and secondary datasets have been used in which the formal sector employed graduates have been targeted. This study has measured the education-job mismatch by three approaches and found that about one-third of the graduates are facing education-job mismatch. In similar, more than one-fourth of the graduates are mismatched in qualification, about half of them are over-qualified and the half are under-qualified. The analysis also shows that 11.3 percent of the graduates have irrelevant and 13.8 percent have slightly relevant jobs to their studied field of disciplines. Our analysis shows that women are more likely than men to be mismatched in field of study. JEL classification: I23, I24, J21, J24 Keywords: Education and Inequality, Higher Education, Human Capital, Labour Market

The Role of Migration in the Formation of Regional Labour Markets Amidst the Second Wave of Depopulation in Modern Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
A. V. Topilin ◽  
A. S. Maksimova
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Sample Surveys ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
Permanent Migration ◽  
Regional Labour Markets ◽  
The Impact

The article reflects the results of a study of the impact of migration on regional labour markets amidst a decline in the working-age population in Russia. After substantiating the relevance of the issues under consideration, the authors propose a methodological analysis toolkit, the author’s own methodology for calculating the coefficients of permanent long-term external and internal labour migration in regional labour markets, and the coefficient of total migration burden. In addition, the authors provide an overview of the information and statistical base of the study. According to current migration records, data of Rosstat sample surveys on Russian labour migrants leaving for employment in other regions, regional labour resources balance sheets based on the calculated coefficients of labour market pressures, the authors analyzed the impact of migration on the Russian regional labour markets over the past decade. It revealed an increasing role of internal labour migration in many regions, primarily in the largest economic agglomerations and oil and gas territories. At the same time, the role of external labour migration remains stable and minimum indicators of the contribution of permanent migration to the formation of regional labour markets continue to decrease. It has been established that irrational counter flows of external and internal labour migration have developed, which indicates not only an imbalance in labour demand and supply but also a discrepancy between the qualitative composition of migrants and the needs of the economy. It is concluded that the state does not effectively regulate certain types of migration, considering its impact on the labour market. The authors justified the need for conducting regular household sample surveys according to specific programs to collect information about labour migrants and the conditions for using their labour. In addition to the current migration records, using interregional analysis, this information allows making more informed decisions at the federal and regional levels to correct the negative situation that has developed in the regional labour markets even before the coronavirus pandemic had struck.

Investment in Human Capital and its Impact on Labour Market

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodica Gherghina ◽  
Mariana Vuta ◽  
Duca Ioana ◽  
Stefanescu Aurelia
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labour Market
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