The SA clothing industry shed over 67 000 jobs in the past three years (Bell, 2006).There is a possibility that more jobs may be shed in Durban (Kwa-Zulu Natal). The Alexander Report mentions that between July 2006 and May 2007 there was a drop of 5275 in employment figures (Palmi, 2007). The cut, make and trim (CMT) industries find it difficult to negotiate wage increases as production costs e...

This paper presents a model where young and old workers compete for one type of jobs in the presence of retirement opportunity. Within this framework, we show that increased retirement opportunities (such as early retirement) has most of the time a depressing impact on the unemployment rate. Indeed the number of vacancies posted by firms is influenced by the probability that an old worker is go...

lending agricultural credits should follow a theoretical background. this research primarily investigated five theoretical patterns especially the islamic pattern about distribution of productive credits. then it examined the reliability of the patterns by accomplishing a case study about agricultural credits. the research was based on grounded theory approach. data were collected through obser...

A course is proposed to cover fixed point, quantization and overflow issues in DSP programming for undergraduates. The course covers the material using a simulation approach in a case study of a SSB communication system. The course is needed in the curriculum because most new graduates in DSP jobs need these skills immediately to be productive on the more common fixed point processors.

With SWOT analysis method, advantage and disadvantage, chance and threat of developing productive service in Shenyang will be analyzed by this paper, indicating that developing productive service industry on the basis of High-Tech is significant for upgrading of industrial structure in old industrial bases. On that basis, this paper continues to bring forward strategic mode selections of econom...

Executive Summary Key challenges In many advanced economies and some emerging economies, the persistence of high levels of unemployment following the crisis, and the build-up of long-term unemployment in particular, have raised concerns around a possible rise in structural unemployment. In emerging economies, there are long-standing concerns about high levels of under-employment, with many work...

The relationship between physical capital. human capital and the distribution of turnings is examined empirically using cross-sectional microdata within SklSAs. Comprtrarive advantage in workers and a scale-of-resources effect among firms is predicted to lead to a rel~ti~)n~hip between capital and earnings. The level of earnings is found to be positively related to capital intensity and nrgntiv...

Many countries in Africa suffer high rates of underemployment or low rates of productive employment; many also anticipate large numbers of people to enter the workforce in the near future. This paper asks the question: Are African firms creating fewer jobs than those located elsewhere? And, if so, why? One reason may be that weak business environments slow the growth of firms and distort the al...