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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 16–20.
Published: 01 September 2017
... domestic labor immigration child care elder care labor law mothers family CARINA CHEN Floridith Sanchez’s mother, Maria, has been a migrant domestic worker for more than two decades. During her first five years abroad, her employers watched her closely and allowed her only minimal contact...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 99–104.
Published: 01 September 2017
... store, Helen Dlamini waits to pay for 10 slices of house-brand baloney and a half-liter of milk. It’s a waste of money to buy just half a liter, but she doesn’t have an icebox. Her employer gave her a mini fridge, but it broke and Dlamini now uses the appliance as a cupboard. A domestic laborer, she...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 112–118.
Published: 01 December 2017
... are traditionally confined to their homes, and to domestic labor. Seaweed farming, and the additional income it brings in—up to 1,125,745 shillings (around $500) per year, compared to an average annual income of 1,263,100 shillings ($561)—have disrupted traditional gender roles. At the beach, women can work freely...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 7–11.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Raymond Torres Raymond Torres is the director of the International Institute for Labor Studies of the International Labor Organization (ILO). © World Policy Institute 2013 2013 World Policy Institute European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso Photo: Jock Fistick...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 87–94.
Published: 01 March 2013
... consequences. Wages have proved to be downwardly rigid, meaning employers are reluctant to demand, and employees even more reluctant to accept, lower wages. Structural reforms to improve the functioning of labor markets are also inevitable, as are reforms to intensify competition in the domestic sector...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 72–81.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., or paint department managers—domestic jobs that cannot be outsourced to lower-cost labor markets. As soon as the economy took a hit in 2008, these were the first to go, because they weren’t central to consumer needs. But stepping back from the job quality issue, a far greater failure is our inability...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 28–35.
Published: 01 September 2017
... administration, which seems more interested in utilizing female labor than in protecting individual women. Kondo pins much of the blame for increasing domestic violence on Abe, especially what the prime minister describes as his drive “to fortify” the family. This is apparent in his attempts to revise...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 79–85.
Published: 01 March 2000
... to em­ new elevated railway. brace better governance, commercial and Faster than many economists initially financial transparency, labor-management predicted, Thailand and the other sick cooperation, and stronger work ethics. Thai­ Southeast Asian “tiger cub economies...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 3–11.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... Half live in poverty, with unemployment reaching 25 percent. They represent an enormous unused and untapped potential. Most youths enter the market unprepared for the skills required in a constantly changing labor market. They end up in unproductive jobs that fail to meet their aspirations for better...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 27–36.
Published: 01 June 2004
... multilateralism in principle, oppose it Council—even when their nation’s vital in­ strongly in one specific area: namely, trade. terests were at stake. By contrast, a majority The most obvious such group is organized of Americans (57 percent) approved of by­ labor, whose influence and popular support...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 29–37.
Published: 01 December 2005
... largely and attaining Western standards of living by media coverage of an angry opposition: appeared utterly unrealistic. Yet the forces from right-wing nationalist xenophobes and of globalization were already at work. left-wing labor leaders who fear rampant On average, people are living twice...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 16–17.
Published: 01 December 2016
... World Policy Journal examines East African gender data in politics, education, and labor. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 gender politics education labor ANATOMY GENDER DISPARITIES IN EAST AFRICA World Policy Journal examines gender data in politics, education...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 29–36.
Published: 01 June 2003
... U.S. labor and labor market, and signing more free trade environmental regulations. But that callous agreements— on the defensive, which in remark about Mexicans not making any­ turn has helped create an environment in thing and therefore not buying anything which he must burnish his...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 99–106.
Published: 01 March 2018
... courses in Jordan and across the region to empower refugee women and help them enter the labor market. Often, these efforts focus on domestic skills that conform to traditional gender roles, such as cooking, tailoring, and hair and beauty care. The thinking is that if women can work in these fields...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 19–28.
Published: 01 December 2005
...-skilled, low-wage Putting U.S. domestic politics aside, labor in China and elsewhere. This trend an argument can be made that addressing is likely to accelerate with the change in core labor standards in trade agreements global trade rules that took effect on Janu­ can help spread...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 3–8.
Published: 01 December 2014
... labor, due to a high minimum wage, has destroyed many unskilled jobs. To solve these supply-side problems, the required economic policies are quite clear: cut government spending and reduce corporate taxes, thereby allowing production efficiency to increase. Additionally, the government must curb...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 7–13.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in Algeria and Morocco, comprised of converts from Islam. “Imported” religions are also experiencing de-culturation. Islam has been rooted in Europe for decades through a huge wave of labor immigration. But the new generation of Muslims in Europe is experiencing a religious revival that seeks...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 16–25.
Published: 01 June 2013
... labor market may narrow some aspects of global inequalities, it has contributed to widening domestic inequalities. How the global auction plays out in countries such as Britain, China, India, and the United States will vary depending on national context, including systems of education and skill...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 41–47.
Published: 01 December 2004
... JOURNAL • WINTER 2003/04 deep-pocketed industrial associations and Rao, chose the latter strategy. Despite con­ powerful labor unions still stand in the way siderable domestic opposition, and in con­ of a tighter embrace of market-oriented cert with the World Bank and the Interna­ policies...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 3–8.
Published: 01 December 2013
... staff, and few are represented on international or regional levels. Calcutta hosted the first International Sex Worker Freedom Festival last year, which advocated labor rights for sex workers, and an end to criminalization of the trade. This same event could not have happened in China. When able...