During the last decade, Sweden has experienced an increase in number of immigrants. In the north of Sweden, Umeå is one of the municipalities with most constant increases. Their working situation is often related to businesses with lower thresholds and the hotel industry is one of these branches. The hotel market is at the same time rising which makes it of interest to describe the hotel industries attitude towards immigrants as working labor.   The aim of this study is to see how immigrants are treated by a service-based labor market in Sweden. This will be examined through semi- structured interviews with support from previous studies and theories. The respondents will be recruitment staffs from hotels in Umeå municipality and the interviews will focus on their point of view.   The results indicate what an immigrant is facing in the Swedish labor market and has been divided into four themes: part time workers labor market, treatment at the working place, cooperation and competence. The study also compares Sweden with England, as previous studies have shown that England has a large number of immigrants working in hotel business.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 22, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170).

Thesis (Doctoral)--Rijksunversiteit Groningen, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-306).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-129). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-129). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-74).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 287-298).

This thesis deals with retraining, which is the main instrument of active employment policy. The aim of thesis is to research the specific detection effectiveness of retraining courses. The hypothesis is that the efficiency of spending on retraining courses cannot be shown because it is impossible to determine the usability of courses for graduates and their real ability to get a job based on their completion. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the definition of basic concepts - unemployment, active labor market policies and retraining courses. The theoretical part of the thesis also focuses on the issues of employability, human and social capital. Analytical part deals with the possibility of examining the effectiveness of retraining courses. The work focuses on the analysis of profiles of graduates retraining courses. Analysis also focused on identifying opportunities to introduce labor offices collecting of data that would provide information on the use of specific retraining obtained in practice, and thus allow exploring the effectiveness of the handling of funds. The work in this section is based on a questionnaire survey of employee of labor offices and interview with Mgr. Ondřej Hora, Ph.D.

No description available.

This thesis is about imperfections in urban labour markets of three developing countries. I study how physical living conditions place constraints on labour force participation, and increase risks associated with unemployment. In Chapter One I test for the impact of high search costs on labour market outcomes of job seekers. I use a randomized trial of transport subsidies among youth living far away from the centre of the city in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Lowering transport costs increases the intensity of job search and leads to better employment outcomes. Weekly phone call data shows that treatment works to stop job search activity from declining over time. I show that the results are consistent with a dynamic model of job search with cash constraints and monetary search costs. Income from temporary work is used to smooth consumption and pay for the costs of search. I find that subsidies reduce participation in temporary work. Chapter Two looks at the links between poor housing conditions in slums and market labour supply. I test for the effect of free government housing in South Africa on households, using four waves of panel data and a natural experiment due to the allocation of new housing according to proximity from housing projects. I then use planned but cancelled projects to control for non-random selection of housing project sites. I find that government housing leads to large increases in household incomes from wage work, and increases in the labour supply of female household members. I argue that these results are due to reduced burdens of work in the home of improved housing, especially for women. In Chapter Three we look at how labour markets respond to large but temporary economic shocks caused by typhoons in the Philippines. We use quarterly aggregate, repeated-cross sectional and panel data to demonstrate robust evidence of downward wage flexibility. Lay-offs do not occur when storms hits, but hours per worker fall. We explain these results with a model of implicit contracts under which risk is shared between workers and firms through wage cuts, but workers are insured against lay-offs so that adjustments in labour demand occur through reductions in hours per worker. Our results are particularly strong for workers in long term contractual relationships in the private sector.