The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result both from reduced production time and from improved communication possibilities. The first shifts the division of labour...
By Amie Ferris-Rotman and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters UK) - The banned chief executive of BP's BP Russian oil venture TNK-BP has lodged an official complaint with Russian authorities over treatment of the firm in a letter, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on...
This project investigated the interrelationships between family expectations and young people's post-school plans. All of the participants were from financially disadvantaged families. The research used interviews to understand these young people's perspectives of their transition experiences: the ways in which young people's school experiences impacted on their...
University student outcome data in Australia is collected via the Graduate Destination Survey component of the Australian Graduate Survey at the referent date three months post-graduation. This timeline gives consideration to graduates to enter directly into traditional vocations. For graduates from non-traditional areas and/or with non-traditional career...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This column includes some observations from my recent participation at the Fourth International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy in Scotland, and visits to LearnDirect and Careers Scotland. The outcomes of the Symposium and the latter two major initiatives directly link to...
Postgraduate Destinations is an annual report produced by Graduate Careers Australia GCA, concerning the work and study outcomes of recent graduates from postgraduate level courses offered at Australian higher education institutions. The report is based on the results of the Australian Graduate Survey AGS, the nation's largest...
Cabinet ministers will give Gordon Brown "one last chance" to save his premiership but will try to oust him by November if he fails to improve Labour's prospects. Senior ministers believe it would be a mistake to move against the Prime Minister before Labour's annual conference next...
Almost 1.8 million children in Britain - one in seven - live in households in which no one works, with more than three million families in total unemployment, figures show. A report published by the Office for National Statistics, based on the Labour Force Survey LFS of...
America's biggest food workers' union has stepped up its pressure on Tesco's US operation, by reporting its ready-meals supplier in the US to a labour-relations tribunal yesterday for the alleged unfair firing of six employees. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union UFCW claimed that the 2...
Editors Note: A video is included with this press release. Beer drinkers have been known to get creative when chilling their beverages. With Labour Day long weekend just around the corner, TV's Food Jammers have taken this practice up a notch in a series of new web-based videos, in which...
Despite the current state of the economy - which has been marked by the credit crisis, energy cost increases and currency fluctuations - substantial salary increases are still expected in Canada for 2009. The current economic uncertainties do not change the reality of an aging workforce and tight labour markets....
Alberta continues to lead North America with the best performing labour market over the past five years, according to a new study released today by independent research organization the Fraser Institute. "For the past five years Alberta has enjoyed strong employment growth, high levels of worker productivity, and low durations...
Sir Michael Bichard, who has had a long and illustrious career in the public sector as permanent secretary of first the Employment Department and then the Department for Education and Employment as was, has retired from the top job at the University of the Arts London. But he isn't striding...
ANCESTOR'S EYE FOR AN ART BARGAIN PAYS OFF FOR DUKE SOME 220 years ago, a shambolic English aristocrat with a fondness for smoking a labourer's clay pipe staged one of the great art-buying coups by acquiring 305 masterpieces, including two coveted works by Titian, from the...
The truth about a "windfall tax" on the energy companies is that it would raise a lot of money and wouldn't raise much protest. After all, who is going to march on Parliament for the sake of E.On's profits? Who would be ready to dress up as Batman and stand...
I once arrived in Finland on May Day. As I walked into my Helsinki hotel, a big Finnish bloke attacked me. Luckily, it was with a balloon. However, the fear flashed through my panicking brain that even though he was not a gunman or a knifeman, merely a balloonman, he...
Almost one-third of Canadians in need of books, computers and back-to-school supplies will avoid the hustle and bustle of traditional shops in favour of the World Wide Web this year. According to an August 2008 survey commissioned by Visa Canadai, 13 percent of Canadians are planning to shop online between...
*TENNIS Michael Llodra once prepared for a match in Miami by sitting naked in Ivan Ljubicic's dressing-room locker. "I'm trying to get positive energy from you because you're winning a lot of matches this year," he told a bemused Ljubicic, who had returned from a shower...
Energy companies could escape a windfall tax on their huge profits if they do more to help people struggling to pay their fuel bills. Ministers will tell gas and electricity bosses that they want them to take further action to combat fuel poverty. Although they deny threatening...
*TENNIS Michael Llodra once prepared for a match in Miami by sitting naked in Ivan Ljubicic's dressing-room locker. "I'm trying to get positive energy from you because you're winning a lot of matches this year," he told a bemused Ljubicic, who had returned from a shower...
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