The High Share of Temporary Employment in Spain
Essay - 2 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
Temporary employment is an important issue in Spain regarding the high share of workers engaged only for a specific period of time. Indeed, according to OECD data, Spain has one of the highest rates of temporary employment among the labour force (aged between 15-65 years): 1 out of 4 dependents...
How does the phenomenon of unemployment impact Brazil both economically and in its development?
Essay - 5 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
With an area of 8,514,876 km², Brazil is one of the five largest countries in the world. It is located in Latin America and borders seven countries, some of which are Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay. Brazil is also the eighth-largest country in the world with a GDP of 2054 billion dollars....
How is globalisation today and how a firm should adapt to that?
Essay - 8 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
The 21st century saw unprecedented financial, economic, political and sanitary crisis. The environment of globalization was affected by these challenges. So, concerns about reversed globalization or de-globalization appeared. The following analysis demonstrates that Globalization is not...
How to save the world using game theory ?
Essay - 2 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
Why does it seem so hard for the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reach an agreement on crude oil production ? Looking at the oil prices evolution since 2014 leads us to a statement : oil producers are facing a hard time in terms of profits. It would be to their entire...
Management of labor and job insecurity: the example of sorting postal employees (1946-1980)
Essay - 7 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
The perception of job insecurity in a state administration, the Post Office, from 1946 to 1980, should help realize the nature of link between work organizations and the employment status of postal workers. Traditionally, this period of strong economic growth is regarded as a period marked by the...
Equal pay: the gender gap in the workplace in the United Kingdom
Essay - 1 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
According to ACAS, women working full time in the public sector earn 13.5% less than their male counterparts. Even more strikingly, women working part-time earn 35.5% less than their male counterparts working full-time. Thus, despite the Equal Pay Act 1970 (EPA hereafter), the existence of a...
Compare your present and future work experience with that of the previous two generations of your family. Is your experience likely to be worse or better or the same?
Essay - 2 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
According to 73% of the French workers, unemployed and retired people (questioned in 2005 by the INSEE ), work culture has undergone a drastic change. According to the above people a lot of things have experienced a series of changes. For current students and future workers, it would be...
Are the migrant workers competing with locals in China's urban labour market?
Essay - 5 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
At the end of the 1970s, the Communist Party of China (CPC) acknowledged that planned economy had not managed to increase the Chinese standards of living. Consequently, it started to reform the economic system in order to modernize it. The labor market was also not been excluded from such...
To what extent can the Thatcher-type reforms be applied in France or adapted to France?
Essay - 3 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
During the past twelve years, three of Jacques Chirac's Prime ministers -Alain Juppé, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin- decided to reform but backed out in the face of protests. The election of a new President, who claimed that he was the candidate for change, during the whole...
Globalization and employment
Essay - 5 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
Globalization is one of the most controversial topics in today's world. Globalization raises fears and apprehensions and the most prominent one that stands out is the growing power of multinational firms that bestows them with the right to retract jobs whenever and wherever they want....
