Geographical mobility and the labour market

This paper studies the e ect of home-owners' migration costs on migration and unemployment in an economy where workers move both for work- and nonwork- related reasons. To this end, a search model with heterogeneous locations is developed and calibrated to the U.S. economy. Consistent with the empirical evidence, the model predicts that home-owners have a lower unemployment rate than renters despite their higher migration costs. The result is due to home-owners' higher transition rate to employment and lower transition rate to unemployment.In addition, the model generates lower inequality in home-owners' local unemployment rates than in renters'. In line with this result, it is documented that, for the period 1996-2013, home-owners had less unemployment dispersion across metropolitan areas than renters.

The labour market in the Basque Country: University Employment Centers

This project is a study of the Labour Market in the Basque Country. First of all, we have analysed the position of the Basque Country in the European Union employment situation by gender and age. Secondly, we have studied the educational level of the Basque Country from the European Union perspective. Thirdly, we have showed the importance of labour orientation in educational level, especially in higher education. Finally, the design of new employment policies to promote the creation of jobs and stability of the labour market depends on: new industries and university employment policies.

Produção discursiva sobre questões ambientais no currículo de Licenciatura em Geografia

Nas últimas décadas a preocupação com as questões ambientais tem se tornado mais presentes em diversos contextos sociais. As transformações de origem antrópica operadas no ambiente se intensificaram com os adventos tecnológicos característicos da modernidade que, em função da conjuntura política, econômica e social do capitalismo, consolidou uma lógica de dominação que, ao contrário do que enunciava, aprofundou e tornou mais complexo formas excludentes, discriminatórias e destrutivas de se relacionar com o outro e com o externo. Frente a isso, como movimento para diminuir ou sanar tais questões referentes a relação violenta do homem com o ambiente, a educação ambiental emerge apoiada em diferentes campos do conhecimento, manifestando-se de diversas formas. O presente estudo visa abordar essa temática analisando aspectos curriculares do curso de Licenciatura em Geografia com Ênfase em Meio Ambiente da Faculdade de Educação da Baixada Fluminense que se constitui propondo-se a formar de docentes de geografia que sejam também educadores ambientais. O ementário do curso foi analisado de modo a observar de que maneira as questões ambientais manifestam-se nos textos. Para isso, nos pautamos, sobretudo, na teoria do discurso, de Ernesto Laclau, e nas discussões e concepções sobre políticas curriculares construídas por Stephen Ball, Elizabeth Macedo e Alice Lopes. Buscamos compreender de que forma as significações ou associações presentes nas ementas contribuem para a formação de educadores ambientais, e sob qual perspectiva de educação ambiental isso ocorre. Analisamos o documento indicado cumprindo uma exigência de delimitação, uma vez que estamos cientes (e esse é um princípio importante da nossa abordagem) que a construção discursiva não se limita ao que é dito/escrito, mas se dá na interação social, arrolada pelas/nas disputas hegemônicas por significação e enunciação.

International legal instruments relevant to fisheries and fishing communities : a handbook. Theme VI. Labour

This handbook provides detailed information for a wide range of legal instruments relevant to fisheries and fishworkers. It covers 114 legal instruments, categorized into the following seven themes: Theme I. Human Rights, Food Security, Women and Development. Theme II. Environment and Sustainable Development. Theme III. Oceans and Fisheries Management. Theme IV. Environmental Pollution Theme V. Fishing Vessels and Safety at Sea Theme VI. Labour Theme VII. Trade The handbook also includes the working of the instruments (decision-making bodies, monitoring and implementation agencies, periodicity of meetings, rules for participation in meetings of the decision-making bodies and implementation agencies for States and non-governmental organizations), regional instrument and agencies. Apart from being a ready reckoner to the instruments, it highlights the important sections of relevance to fisheries or small-scale fisheries and fishworkers. The companion CD-ROM provides the full texts of the instruments in a searchable database. The handbook will be useful for fishworker and non-governmental organizations, and also for researchers and others interested in fisheries issues.

Enhancing capacities of fishing communities: ICSF-BOBLME sub-regional dialogue on labour, migration and fisheries management. Report of the proceedings, 11 to 13 December 2013, Chulalongkorn University,Thailand

This report on the “Sub-regional Dialogue on Labour, Migration and Fisheries Management”, held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, from 11 to 13 December 2013, highlights the issue of migrant labour on board fishing vessels and the problems migrant workers face in their workaday lives. This report will be useful for students, researchers, activists and anyone else interested in matters related to fisheries and small-scale fishing communities.

Negative Effects of Relative Proximity and Absolute Geography on Open Innovation Practices in High-tech SMEs in the UK

© 2014 IEEE. This exploratory study addresses a gap in management literature by addressing the role of location in the continuously expanding field of open innovation research. In this context, we analyze potential negative effects of absolute geography and relative proximity on open innovation practices in high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom. Drawing upon cluster theory and business ecosystem literature, the analysis from three SME case studies in the East of England suggests that presumed 'favorable' location variables, such as close relative proximity between partners and the presence of economic clusters, can have certain negative effects on open innovation practices.

Margulis' theory on division of labour in cells revisited

Division of labour is a marked feature of multicellular organisms. Margulis proposed that the ancestors of metazoans had only one microtubule organizing center (MTOC), so they could not move and divide simultaneously. Selection for simultaneous movement and cell division had driven the division of labour between cells. However, no evidence or explanation for this assumption was provided. Why could the unicellular ancetors not have multiple MTOCs? The gain and loss of three possible strategies are discussed. It was found that the advantage of one or two MTOC per cell is environment-dependent. Unicellular organisms with only one MTOC per cell are favored only in resource-limited environments without strong predatory pressure. If division of labour occurring in a bicellular organism just makes simultaneous movement and cell division possible, the possibility of its fixation by natural selection is very low because a somatic cell performing the function of an MTOC is obviously wasting resources. Evolutionary biologists should search for other selective forces for division of labour in cells.