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Regulation Of Recruitment Process And Reduction Of Migration Costs: A Comparative Analysis Of South Asia, Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Regulation Of Recruitment Process And Reduction Of Migration Costs: A Comparative Analysis Of South Asia, Piyasiri Wickramasekara
PIYASIRI WICKRAMASEKARA
The study undertakes a comprehensive review of issues relating to recruitment processes and high migration costs in South Asia with special focus on Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
The paper first highlights migration trends in South Asia, and main features of South Asian migration. Next the paper reviews the international normative framework of recruitment covering the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), and the ILO Multilateral Framework on Migration (2006).
The paper reviews the main features and practices of private recruitment agencies and the legislative and regulatory framework covering their operations.
It …
Voice Without Say: Why Capital-Managed Firms Aren’T (Genuinely) Participatory, Justin Schwartz
Voice Without Say: Why Capital-Managed Firms Aren’T (Genuinely) Participatory, Justin Schwartz
Justin Schwartz
Why are most capitalist enterprises of any size organized as authoritarian bureaucracies rather than incorporating genuine employee participation that would give the workers real authority? Even firms with employee participation programs leave virtually all decision-making power in the hands of management. The standard answer is that hierarchy is more economically efficient than any sort of genuine participation, so that participatory firms would be less productive and lose out to more traditional competitors. This answer is indefensible. After surveying the history, legal status, and varieties of employee participation, I examine and reject as question-begging the argument that the rarity of genuine …
Heterogeneous Preferences And Provision Of Public Goods, Francesco Scervini, Luna Bellani
Heterogeneous Preferences And Provision Of Public Goods, Francesco Scervini, Luna Bellani
Francesco Scervini
This paper examines the role of social classes’ cleavages on in-kind redistribution. In presence of heterogeneous income as well as heterogeneous preferences over the types of public goods provided, the total amount of redistribution depends on the distance between those preferences. Under very general assumptions, we describe an environment in which the more a society is fractionalized, the less redistribution we can expect. In particular, with respect to the baseline model with heterogeneous incomes but homogeneous preferences over public goods, social distance decreases the amount of public goods preferred by all individuals. Our paper innovates the previous literature on this …