Why come here if I can go there? Assessing the ‘Attractiveness’ of the EU’s Blue Card Directive for ‘Highly Qualified’ Immigrants. Paper on Liberty and Security in Europe No. 60, 14 October 2013

This paper analyses the attractiveness of the EU’s Blue Card Directive – the flagship of the EU’s labour immigration policy – for so-called ‘highly qualified’ immigrant workers from outside the EU. For this purpose, the paper deconstructs the understanding of ‘attractiveness’ in the Blue Card Directive as shaped by the various EU decision-making actors during the legislative process. It is argued that the Blue Card Directive sets forth minimum standards providing for a common floor – not a common ceiling: the Directive did not, as originally envisaged by the European Commission, create one European highly skilled admission scheme. This raises questions regarding its concrete use. A critical focus is placed on the personal scope of the Blue Card Directive and the level of rights offered, and a first comparative perspective on the implementation of the Directive in five member states is provided.

Labor clauses in regional trade agreements and effects on labor conditions : an empirical analysis

An increasing number of bilateral or plurilateral trade agreements (or regional trade agreements: RTAs) include "labor clauses" that require or urge the signatory countries to commit to maintaining a certain level of labor standards. This paper performs an empirical analysis of the impacts of such labor clauses provided in RTAs on working conditions that laborers in the RTA signatory countries actually face, using macro-level data for a wide variety of countries. The paper first examines the texts of labor provisions in more than 220 effective RTAs and (re-)classifies "RTAs with labor clauses" according to two criteria: (i) the agreement urges or expects the signatory countries to harmonize their domestic labor standards with internationally recognized standards, and (ii) the agreement stipulates the procedures for consultations and/or dispute settlement on labor-condition issues between the signatory countries. Based on this labor-clause RTA classification, the paper estimates the impacts of RTA labor clauses on working conditions in countries with two empirical specifications using the sample covering 136 countries or economies and years from 1995 through 2011. The estimation is extended to takes into account possible lags in the labor-condition effects of labor clauses as well as to consider potential difference in the impacts for countries in different income levels. The empirical results for the four measures of labor conditions (mean monthly real earnings, mean weekly work hours per employee, fatal occupational injury rate, and the number of the ILO's Core Conventions ratified) find no evidence for possible pro-labor-condition effects of RTA labor clauses overall, which should be consistent with the view of economics literature that questions the relevance of linking trade policy with issues in the domestic labor standards.

Labor law and practice in Mexico.

"Prepared by Arthur Neef"--P. i.

Principles underlying labor-dispute disqualification,

"Prepared at the request of the Bureau of Employment Security by Marsile J. Hughes of the Illinois Division of Placement and Unemployment Compensation." -- Foreword.

Labor and material requirements for hospital and nursing home construction.

"January 1983."

Employment and income distribution objectives for A.I.D. programs and policies /

Includes bibliographical references.

National Labor Relations Act : hearings before the Special Committee to Investigate National Labor Relations Board, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, second[-third] session, pursuant to H. Res. 258 (76th Congress) a resolution creating a select committee to investigate the National Labor Relations Board.

Howard W. Smith, chairman.

Histoire des corporations de métiers, depuis leurs origines jusqu'à leur suppression en 1791 : suivie d'une étude sur l'évolution de l'ídee corporative de 1791 à nos jours, et sur le mouvement syndical contemporain /

"Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie française."

First-ninth report [of the] Bureau of Labor Statistics. Industrial accidents in Illinois ... [July] 1907-December 31, 1915.

In 1917 the Board was succeeded by the Division of labor statistics of the Department of labor.

Bibliographies of the world at war: no.I-X.

̲̲ ̲̲̲̲S̲upplement ... no.1- Apr./Dec., 1942- Washington, D. C., 1943- v. 27 cm.

Zero base review of FMCSRs. Volume I: executive summary. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Derivation of the 1963 & 1967 total employment vector for 362 I/O sectors /

"Supported by the National Science Foundation, NSF grant GI-35179X."

Size of reporting unit (i.e., number of employes) by industry : first quarter.

WI docs no.: EMP 1.3/2:221.1-221.18

Report to the President by the Emergency Board appointed March 15, 1949 by Executive order 10045 pursuant to Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended : to investigate and report in respect to a dispute involving the Wabash Railroad Co. and the Ann Arbor Railroad Co., carriers, and certain of their employees, represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen : (NMB case A-3028) : St. Louis, Mo., April 6, 1949.

Signed: Roger I. McDonough, chairman, Curtis G. Shake, member, John W. Yeager, member.

Dva lista iz rimske povesnice : Plebejske vodje i radničke vodje : Opomena brače Graha /

In Serbo-Croatian (roman).