Employment and labor issues : unemployment, youth employment and child labor / Lance K. Valencia and Bryson J. Hahn, editors.

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EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR ISSUES: UNEMPLOYMENT, YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND CHILD LABOR ; EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR ISSUES: UNEMPLOYMENT, YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND CHILD LABOR ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE; LABOR MARKET PERFORMANCE AFTER STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE INTERESTING BUT NOT SO UNIQUE CASE OF TURKEY ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION ; 1. STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT, WASHINGTON CONSENSUS AND LABOR MARKET FLEXIBILITY ; 1.1 Structural Adjustment in Turkey: Changes in the Bargaining Power of Labor2 ; 1.2 Structural Adjustment: Labor Market Flexibility.

1.3 Structural Adjustment: Privatization and Downsizing of State 2. LABOR MARKET DYNAMICS IN TURKEY ; 2.1. Participation Rates ; 2.2. Female and Child Labor ; 2.3. Sectoral Distribution ; 2.4. Informal Employment ; 3. ECONOMIC GROWTH WITHOUT EMPLOYMENT ; 3.1. Capital Accumulation and Growth ; 3.2. Macroeconomic Volatility, Investment and Labor Markets ; 3.3 Financial Fragility, Capital Market Imperfections and Investment ; 3.4 Financial Crisis and Labour Markets ; 3.5. Trade ; 4. CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; THE EFFECT OF TERM-TIME EMPLOYMENT ON UK HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS ; ABSTRACT.

1. INTRODUCTION 2. CHANGES IN THE BRITISH HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM AND THE GROWTH OF TERM TIME EMPLOYMENT ; 3. DATA ; 4. RESULTS ; a) Student Employment Patterns ; b) Who Works and Why? ; c) Effects of Employment ; c1) General patterns ; c2) Effect on degree performance ; c3) Effect on labour market outcomes ; 5. CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; DETERMINANTS OF THE MIGRATION FLOWS FROM NEPALESE VILLAGES ; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; II. THE STUDY AREA ; III. DATA AND METHODS ; IV. RESULTS ; A. Demographic and Other Household Characteristics ; B. Migrant Workers, Education and Family Structure.

v. REGRESSION ANALYSIS VI. CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSIONS ; ACKNOWLEDGMENT ; REFERENCES ; COLLEGE-AGED FOOD SERVICE WORKERS: KNOWLEDGE AND BEHAVIORS REGARDING SAFE FOOD PRACTICES ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; DUAL ROLES OF THE MODERN COLLEGE STUDENT ; COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THE FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY ; THE FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY: CHARACTERISTICS, FOOD SAFETY AND TRAINING ; Characteristics of the Food Service Industry ; Importance of Safe Food Practices in the Food Service Industry ; The Role of Food Safety Training in the Food Service Industry ; OVERVIEW OF STUDY ; METHOD ; Participants ; Measures.

Procedure RESULTS ; Establishments and Responsibilities Fulfilled ; Food Safety Training ; Food Safety Knowledge ; Food Safety Behaviors ; DISCUSSION ; Areas for Improvement ; PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; THE EMPLOYMENT OF YOUTHS WITH DISABILITIES: DISPARITIES, PREPARATION, AND EFFECTIVE TRANSITIONING TO THE COMMUNITY WORKPLACE ; INTRODUCTION ; DEFINING DISABILITY ; FEDERAL MANDATE FOR TRANSITIONING TO POST-SECONDARY FUNCTIONING ; IMPORTANT ISSUES AND DISPARITIES IN EMPLOYMENT FOR YOUTHS WITH DISABILITIES ; TRANSITION ASSESSMENT ; VOCATIONAL TRAINING.

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