Essays Tagged: "labour market"

Sexism in the Workplace

ty when considering it's effect in theworkplace. Sexism has always been a particular problem in the labourmarket especially with the formation of capitalism. In the last half of the20th century this h ... lf of the20th century this has been especially highlighted due to the increase ofwoman entering the labour market. This aroused the need for a legislationfor equal opportunity for both sex's to be pas ...

(10 pages) 598 0 3.0 Aug/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

A brief comparison between the provisions Britian and france provide for under 5's.

e for young children at home or with a family day carer thus encouraging mothers to stay out of the labour market. The Law on Educational Orientation of 1989 brought forward changes in the overall set ...

(6 pages) 39 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Managerial Behavior

they are constrained by the ever present force of competition in product markets and its managerial labour market. While there are significant differences among countries, managerial constraints are i ... n this region. Unlike in the Europe, the concept of the stakeholder firm that emphasize cooperative labour relations was largely ignored by US and UK whereby shareholders are the only residual income ...

(11 pages) 196 0 3.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

Employability and job security

b Security" has clearly become a thing of the past. As a matter of fact, a new trend appears on the labour market in which employees have to assume their own skill development thanks to the employers ... oyalty on both parties companies and individuals. As a matter of fact, companies still need to keep labour force to provide their "vast integration operation"(Peter Cappelli, 2000). But it's not becau ...

(9 pages) 210 0 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Globalisation and the Contradiction of Peripheral Capitalism in Nigeria.

assetsCuts in public spending, particularly through dismantling of welfare states"De-regulation" of labour marketLiberalization of trade, which is forcing countries to open up their markets for foreig ... al system having three principal characteristics:1.a high degree of autonomy2.extensive division of labour3.multiplicity of cultureThus, we are concerned with what Wallerstein calls world -economy, a ...

(44 pages) 198 1 4.8 Aug/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

What is meant by the derived demand for labour why is the labour market regarded as a factor market?

Labour is the human element in the production process. It is the intellectual and physical effort of ... in the production process. It is the intellectual and physical effort of people in production. The labour market is a factor market where the demand and supply of labour interact to determine the wag ... ket where the demand and supply of labour interact to determine the wage rate and the allocation of labour resources in the economy.The demand for labour is derived form the demand for the goods and s ...

(3 pages) 57 0 3.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Analyse the government and market forces that create differences in income.

eraction of the market forces of demand and supply contributes to create differences in income in a labour market. Therefore this determined the price of labour or the wage levels and the quantity of ... ting supply and demand influence the income difference.The occurrence of differences in income in a labour market is due to the interaction between individuals who are willing to supply their labour t ...

(3 pages) 63 1 1.5 Aug/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Write a short piece about your own social identity. Drawing on this, answer the following question: 'Critically evaluate the claim that 'collective social identities are both inclusive and exclusive'.

es and realms of social life that I can look at. Therefore, I will look specifically at the British labour market. The perspective that I will adopt to examine the claim is a modernist approach, using ... the claim that collective social identities are both permitted in and prevented from the in British labour market, whilst concurrently highlighting the diversity of experience of ethnicity and 'race' ...

(17 pages) 239 0 4.8 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

What are the shortcomings of the Neo-classical description of the labour market exchange, which is based on the notion of the price mechanism?

One of the shortcomings of the Neo-classical description is the lack of a social aspect. The labour market should be intertwined with society. Your position in society has a large influence on ... the opportunities available after secondary schooling will open more or less doors for you into the labour market. Social aspects also include family and the increasing popularity of part time jobs or ...

(3 pages) 27 0 3.7 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Are Married Women Working Too Hard?

e occupational sphere.Some feminist's sociologists have concluded that women's participation in the labour market is clearly limited by their domestic responsibilities. Because of these responsibiliti ... ore don't have the same access to promotions and training opportunities as men.Other changes in the labour force over the last two decades include a marked increase in the number of employee jobs perf ...

(2 pages) 41 0 4.7 Dec/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Economics - Australia and Labour Markets

Labour and the Labour MarketLabour is the human element in the production process. The labour market ... ment in the production process. The labour market is a factor market where the demand and supply of labour interact to determine the wage rate and the allocation of labour resources in the economy.Der ... to determine the wage rate and the allocation of labour resources in the economy.Derived Demand for LabourThe demand for labour is derived from the demand for the goods and services that labour is use ...

(6 pages) 43 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies

Slovakia Business Environment

e to further strengthen its position.BodySound macroeconomic policy, assertive product, capital and labour market liberalisation, and fundamental tax and welfare reform have transformed the Slovak bus ...

(3 pages) 27 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Economics of Labour Assignment

In an economy, markets determine prices and quantities. In the labour market, prices refer to wages and quantity refers to the number of people employed. Relative ... device in our economy because of the way they allocate productive resources. Using Ceteris Paribus labour will tend to move to sectors where wage levels are highest. As such there are a number of met ... highest. As such there are a number of methods by which wages and conditions are determined in the labour market.The wage rate, in a free market would be determined by the forces of supply and demand ...

(8 pages) 132 1 4.3 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

The Labour Market essay

Labour market is where individuals seeking employment interact with employers who want to obtain the ... here individuals seeking employment interact with employers who want to obtain the most appropriate labour skills for their production process. Labour markets are significantly affected when wages ris ... ve no effect at all, causing economic growth.When wage rates increase, it increases the quantity of labour supplied, as firms can no longer afford to pay all its employees the increased rate, therefor ...

(3 pages) 60 0 3.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Does Globalisation benefit or cause inequalities for men and women?

n the context of global gender and sexualities globalisation has allowed men to enter into the paid labour market during the transition from a feudal to a capitalist society, which was later followed ... 2004: 130-134 ; Connell, R. W.,1996 : 2). Hence on a social scale there is an explicit "division of labour" (Santiago-Valles, K., 2005:56 ; Cohen, R. & Kennedy, P. 2000:101), this is due to mascul ...

(11 pages) 108 0 3.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Gender Equality in Mexico - 10 questions answered

e stay at home wives and therefore tend to not work and stay at home. Participation of women in the labour market is only 43%, women generally earn 89% of what men earn (for the same job). Another pro ... ys since he owns the land.2.What laws keep genders from being truly equal?Under the Mexican Federal Labour Law in the Constitution women are considered equal – they even have special “benefi ...

(4 pages) 21 0 0.0 Apr/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Major causes of unemployment, recent unemployment performance, policy options available to the government to achieve a sustained reduction in the level of unemployment in Australian economy

ollows.Economic growth is possibly the most influential factor causing unemployment. The demand for labour is a derived demand, meaning that it is determined by the level of demand for goods and servi ... eriencing low levels of economic growth, aggregate demand will fall, thus decreasing the demand for labour, which will result in an increase in unemployment.resulted in a strong decline in unemploymen ...

(8 pages) 79 1 4.3 Jun/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Importants Of HRM Functions

Planning and recruitment - To have a proper reconciliation between the two environmental forces of labour market (demand and supply of labour). To have an idea of their current configuration of their ... ir discrepancies between the current configuration and their required future configuration of their labour supply.b) Selection and Placement - This will determine who will or will not be allowed into ...

(1 pages) 30 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Women's Labour Force in Europe

een modernized. An important part of gender related changes has to do with the gendered division of labour in which females were playing the role of men thus making themselves in cooperated in gender ... ife course over dais period. As early as the 1950s, the proportion of women who participated in the labour force differed considerably, and took distinctly different avenues (for example the share of ...

(46 pages) 113 0 5.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

To what extent have changes in legislation achieved equality in the labor market? With reference to 'gender'?

To what extent have changes in legislation achieved equality in the labour market? With reference to 'gender'?In this essay I will be examining the concept of equal opp ... nti- discriminatory legislations, the implementation of this and the effectiveness of it within the labour market: it will also principally concentrate on gender inequalities in employment.There are e ... er role stereotyping. Giddens (2001)Sociologists have their own theories around sexual divisions of labour which differ in many ways for example Alcock et al (2003) believes that the feminist analysis ...

(9 pages) 68 0 5.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History