Essays about: "Low-skilled labor"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the words Low-skilled labor.

  1. 6. Immigration - Benefit or harm for native-born workers?

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Erica Andersson; Ida Knutsson; [2016]
    Keywords : Immigration; Sweden; Low-skilled; High-skilled; Wage level; Bargaining; Minimum Wage; Panel data; 2000-2008;

    Abstract : The aim of our study is to investigate the effect of immigrants on wages for natives with divergent skill level within one country. Skill level is measured as education level and the purpose is to focus on the level where it according to us is a lack in research, namely the effect on high skilled native-born worker wages. READ MORE

  2. 7. A Global Governance Shift in Development : A study on how transnational corporation´s CSR initiative can address Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining and how that can facilitate development

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Sophie Runesson; [2016]
    Keywords : transnational corporations; freedom of association; collective bargaining; global governance; development; poverty; transnationella företag; föreningsfrihet; kollektivavtal; global styrning; utveckling; fattigdom;

    Abstract : Through globalization non-state actors including transnational corporations (TNC), have taken on a more important global governance role from the nation state, where they through their CSR initiatives, impact social issues surrounding development. There are however conflicting views whether CSR could contribute to development in the society. READ MORE

  3. 8. Wage Dispersion and Employment for People With Low Skill : Sweden Compared to Six European Countries

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Robert Pölder; [2016]
    Keywords : Wage dispersion; Employment; Low-skilled labor; Labor market; Minimum wage; Sweden; Germany; Norway;

    Abstract : This paper investigates in what way employment for low-skilled workers is connected to the wage dispersion in a country by comparing Sweden to six European countries. Previous research on this topic used cross-section analysis, but this essay takes another approach by comparing the changes in the wage dispersion and employment and by breaking down the change in the wage dispersion into parts and studying the change in the wage for different percentiles. READ MORE