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... of the labor force in postindustrial societies, has been further affected by the Maastricht criteria, which sought to enhance the competitiveness through increasing productivity, reducing wage costs, and significantly restructuring the labor relations that organized labor had achieved. For Social Democratic...

.... This approach allows one to grasp how the EP and PAM have reacted to common problems and challenges affecting the Mediterranean and identifies possible overlaps and divisions of labor between the two international parliamentary institutions. Andrea Cofelice is research fellow at the Centre for Studies...

... repression. In Russell King’s words, the Greek migrants “functioned in the same way as a ‘reserve army of labor’ for Northern Europe’s industries and labor needs in other low status employment sectors.”2 1. Andrew Freris, The Greek Economy in the Twentieth Century (London: Croom-Helm, 1986). 2. Russell...

... for the Exchange of Labor Forces These treaties are the main instruments for the regulation of temporary labor migration. Domestic legislation includes two categories of legal norms: gen- eral and special. General norms set an overall framework of the status of foreigners in Bulgaria, while the special norms...

... associated issues over time. Indeed, two antagonistic dynamics that most immigration countries have had to deal with—demands for cheap labor from the economy and latent xenophobia among nationals—have been extraordinarily intense in Switzerland. Whereas very high levels of economic activity and a struc...

... objectives: to satisfy the demands for labor of the domestic economy, to meet the interests of the colonies, and fi nally, to benefi t from the remit- tances of emigrants.3 These policies were highly interventionist (for instance, they prevented the departure of individuals who had jobs in Portugal...

... compete with low-skilled South Africans in the job market. Such analy- sis fi nds support in a study conducted by the National Labour and Economic Development Institute (NALEDI), a think tank for the Congress of South Afri- can Trade Unions, which documented the presence of illegal foreign workers...

..., and therefore Portuguese exports to the EC did not have discriminatory effects on other non-EC suppliers. Finally, the opening of the Portuguese markets led to an increase in intraindustry trade, and hence fewer acute labor adjustment problems.29 28. Royo, 291–2. 29. See Robert C. Hine, “Customs Union...

.... Royo: The Politics of Adjustment and Coordination at the Regional Level  41 dom, are organized around a decentralized model based on general skills and market-based linkages, deregulated labor markets, strong competition policy, education and training systems focused on general skills...

... Mediterranean Quarterly: Summer 2000 to the ruler, strikes, street demonstrations, and other manifestations. For the most part, the goals of these efforts have been the establishment of a parliament, the election of municipal councils, and permission for labor...

... the EU and countries to the east. Only 5 per- cent of current EU employment is in the agriculture sector. By contrast, nearly 20 percent of Polish workers work on the land. In Romania, a candi- date state for future entry, agricultural employment accounts for nearly 45 percent of the labor force...

... capita   (US$ thousands) 35.0 55.0 19.0 76.0 21.0 55.0 Labor force in industry 79.0 25.0 15.0 Labor force in services 20.0 63.0 78.0 Labor force in agriculture 1.0 12.0 7.0...

... full political separa- tion along acceptable geographic borders.9 The Palestinian economy is completely integrated with, and dependent on, Israel. The trade and labor closures imposed by Israel to enhance its secu- rity have wreaked economic havoc on the majority of Palestinians and have...

... the stove doesn’t work because power has been cut off. How about a fire? No coal. No wood. In resignation the husband trudges to the lakeshore and throws the Binder: Approaching Albania  67 fish back in. The fish leaps up and shouts, “Long Live the Party of Labor...

... be selective, but what principle of selectivity is involved? I would argue that media bias usually does not occur in random fashion. Rather, it moves in more or less consistent directions, favoring management over labor, corporations over corporate critics, affluent whites over low- income minorities...

... of values, of political principles that distinguishes among political asylum, labor migration, and population immigration, and guar- antees residence to the immigrant. 2. Second is a logic of demographic politics, based on the principle that France needs population to remain or become again...

... the front. He argues that 38 to 47 percent of the Crimean and 40 to 50 percent of the North Caucasian Jewish population evacu- ated before the German military secured the region. From there, Feferman examines registration, forced labor, and the killing operations. In addition to division...

... in the hands of the Ashkenazim. The Sephardim, by and large, possess no capital, provide low-rank labor, and have relatively little representation in the corri- dors of political power. Consequentially, the Sephardim constitute a periph- ery to an Ashkenazi core.14...

...; for (percentagerate labor of force) unemployment Youth Percentage of employment in services employment of Percentage Percentage of employment in industry...

... boundaries. The Labour Party had endorsed Israel for decades, but the actions of the Yom Kippur War pro- voked a wave of anti-­Israeli sentiment in the party. Influenced by the leftward protests of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the anti-­apartheid movements, the early 1980s witnessed...