Essays about: "Studies on Labour and Globalization"

Found 5 essays containing the words Studies on Labour and Globalization.

  1. 1. Is there an impact of Foreign Direct Investments on gender equality? A study of female employment in Latin America and the Caribbean

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Lina Jönsson; [2015]
    Keywords : female labour force participation; female employment; gender; Latin America and the Caribbean; Foreign Direct Investments; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a part of the globalization process, a process increasing all over the world. These investments affect people, both in the home economy and the host economy. People in the host economy are, due to several aspects, affected in different ways. One of those aspects is gender. READ MORE

  3. 2. Career guidance in a Fiji-context

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Emilia Nyqvist; Therese Strålin; [2014]
    Keywords : Career guidance; Fiji; Interview-model; Decision making; Career theory;

    Abstract : Due to globalization and migration people and their cultures spread worldwide andcareer-guiding practitioners have to be more culturally considerate when they meetpeople. Our studies made in Fiji shows that there is a gap between thoughts regardingestimated income, education and effort in a workplace and actual labour-marketconditions. READ MORE

  4. 3. Forced Labour in Brazil : A Study of the Global and Local Forces that Influence Rural Coercive Work in Brazil.

    University essay from Institutionen för spanska, portugisiska och latinamerikastudier

    Author : Wenderson Raimundo de Lima; [2012]
    Keywords : Latin American Studies; Studies on Labour and Globalization; Brazilian Forced Labour;

    Abstract : The following thesis is an investigation of the actors, the forces and the conditions contributing to the phenomenon of forced labor in the Brazilian countryside. The paper begins by providing a relevant historical background to the problem of coercive labor, starting with the colonial legacy of slavery, dating back to the 16th century and leading up to the present. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Influence of Power Distance on Leadership Behaviours and Styles : Case Studies of Japanese and French companies operating in Sweden

    University essay from Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet (USBE)

    Author : Sandhiya Goolaup; Tural Ismayilov; [2012]
    Keywords : leadership styles; power distance; cross cultural leadership; leadership behaviours; path goal theory;

    Abstract : As a result of globalization and increase interdependence of the world economies, people from different cultures are interacting more frequently. However, most problems and misunderstandings occur when members of one culture assumes that their own unconscious values and beliefs are equally appropriate in other cultures. READ MORE

  6. 5. The right to health and right to intellectual property in the EU. Analysis of the internal and external policies.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Beata Faracik; [2002]
    Keywords : Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Rights; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : It is very common nowadays to speak of an ''information society'' in which control of information or information based knowledge has replaced control over matter as an ultimate source of economic power. The intellectual creations protected through patents, trade marks, copyrights etc constitute often a huge part of the companies' intangible assets. READ MORE