subsequent highlighting of key findings. UK Immigration Implications – Case Overview Immigration in the UK is one of the highest item on the agenda of political parties due to the high degree of public interest in the topic due to its links with the economic development and influences on the labour force dynamics in the country. The overall influx of the immigrants into the UK has doubled since 1993 from 2.9 million to 2013 with over 6 million. The impact of this influx of immigrants has led to the
have also conducted investigation surrounding the implication of the immigration on the wages of the native population by analysing different groups of immigrants. The research has argued that within the UK, the government has imposed diversity of measures to control and channel immigration according to the economic needs of the country. This is the reason that certain skills within the country have gained higher levels of immigration in comparison with others. The results of the study have pointed out
4 NEGATIVE IMPACT OF RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 4.1 AGING POPULATION Local and foreign labour are deemed essential to Singapore’s workforce in order to sustain competitiveness in economic development. However long standing past policy implication and current policy taken by the Government to spur economic development, could be argued to affect the labour market and SMEs in the long run. The past and current policies that might inflicted negative impact to labour market and SMEs are elaborated as
years. With 9/11 being a subsequent reason for this threat and cause of concern, the issue of migration has escalated to such a great extent that within literature, it has “opened up a number of discursive opportunities to associate terrorism with immigration, therefore framing the issue in such a way that immigrants are categorised as posing an existential threat”(Boswell, 2010, p. 2). In order to understand why migration is apparently being securitised we must understand the essence of the problem
The term neo-liberalism can abstractly be used to refer to a set of economic policies that have gained popularity in the past two decades. These policies have been popularised by the powerful financial institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. They have been determined by the decline of the capitalist economy, provoking them to revive economic liberalism. Such economic and social policies usually have a market-driven approach. These are usually characterised by economic theories
Migration has fundamentally changed the nature of Irish society. Ireland has recently become a country of immigration; nonetheless the changes have been rapid and have changed the country significantly both north and south of the boarder. It is one of a number of peripheral European countries which has transformed from having a lengthy history of emigration, to becoming a recipient of substantial inward migration. In Ireland today, migration “Is one of the topics under discussion” (Gilmartin &White
2004). 2.2.1. Seasonal Unemployment This type of unemployment arises from regular and predictable seasonal variation that causes changes the demand for labour. This type of unemployment affects some of the following industries: - Agriculture, Tourism, Construction, Catering and leisure. In Africa, the agricultural industries has the highest impact relative to all other form of unemployment since agriculture in many African countries contributes the greatest in employment in
The social and cultural environment Paul Wetherly Contents Introduction: what is the social and cultural environment? What has it got to do with business? Society, culture and business Demographic trends—an ageing population Immigration and multiculturalism Class structure Inequality A woman’s place? Looking ahead Summary Case study: decline of the working class? 123 150 152 152 153 153 153 Review and discussion questions 125 128 132 135 139 145 149 149 Assignments Further reading Online
Diversity is the complete range of differences and similarities that make each individual unique. According to a study conducted by Korn Ferry International, it classifies diversity into six buckets as below. 1.Relational: How we relate and rejuvenate (Family status, Parental, Marital, Behavior, Personal Habits, Generation and Partner) 2.Cognitive: How we think and process information (Thinking, learning, interpersonal, communication, Introvert, Extravert, IQ and EQ) 3.Occupational: How we work and
SOCIO-ECONOMIC CRISES IN SOUTH AFRICA’S HORTICULTURE SECTOR In this research I have gone through the effects of the “Global value chain (GVC) and Global product networks (GPNs)” on the South African economy and the horticulture labour force. So what are GVC and GPNs…? Global value chain is the chain of activities, which include all the major steps from producing a product to selling them in an international market and even the after sales services (Inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics