Rules of Origin and Local Content in East Asia

Rules of Origin (RoO) are an integral part of all trade rules. In order to be eligible for Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) under AFTA and similar arrangements under the ASEAN-China FTA, a product must satisfy the conditions relative to local content. The paper tries to calculate local content as well as cumulative local content in East Asian economies, with use of the Asian International Input-Output Tables; it also investigates factors of change in local content by applying decomposition analysis. The paper finds that the cumulation rule increased local content of the electronics industry more significantly than local content of the automotive industry, and the contribution of the cumulation rule increased in the period 1990-2000, due to rising dependency on neighboring ASEAN countries and China.

Impact of economic crisis on mental health of migrant workers: what happened with migrants who came to Spain to work?

Objectives: To assess changes in mental health in a sample of migrant workers after the eruption of the economic crisis in Spain. Methods: 318 migrant workers were interviewed. Mental health, sociodemographic, and economic crisis related variables were obtained through face-to-face (2008) and phone (2011) interviews. Prevalence of poor mental health (PMH) was compared (2011–2008) and multivariate logistic regression models were fitted. Results: Change in prevalence of PMH was higher in men (aOR 4.63; 95 % CI 2.11–10.16). Subgroups of men showing the largest detrimental mental health effects were: unemployed, with low salaries (≤1,200 euros) and those reporting family burden. An increase of PMH was found in women, without significant associations. Conclusions: Mental health of migrant workers in Spain has worsened during the economic crisis.

Pollutant Formation During the Thermal Decomposition of Electrical and Electronic Wastes

Paper submitted to the 7th International Symposium on Feedstock Recycling of Polymeric Materials (7th ISFR 2013), New Delhi, India, 23-26 October 2013.

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's monthly journal.

Title from cover.

Engineering abstracts : journal of the International Institute of Technical Bibliography.

Description based on: Aug. 1910; title from cover.

Proceedings of the ... convention of the Stove Mounters' International Union of North America.

Mode of access: Internet.

Archiv für Elektrotechnik = Archive of electrical engineering.

Description based on: Vol. 77, no. 4 (May 1994); title from cover.

Theory and application of electrical engineering.

Includes bibliographies.

International journal of American linguistics.

Bibliography of American linguistics, 1926-1928 in v. 6, p. 69-75.

Studies in God's methods of training workers,

Mode of access: Internet.

A profile of the Teamsters Union.

Bibliographical footnotes: p. 26-27.

[Investigation of improper activities in the labor or management field] Second interim report ... pursuant to S. Res. 44, 86th Congress, 1st sess.

John L. McClellan, chairman.