The Labour Divide

The Labour Divide 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003-7 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. 1 © 2002-7 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit my United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 2 100 articles and essays (microeconomics and macroeconomics) by the same author - available! http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Sam Vaknin`s "Central Europe Review" Author Archive: http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Additional articles about Business on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html 3 Table of Contents I. Battling Unemployment II. The Labour Divide - I. Employment and Unemployment III. The Labour Divide - II. Migration and Brain Drain IV. The Labour Divide - III. Entrepreneurship and Workaholism V. The Labour Divide - IV. The Unions after Communism VI. The Labour Divide - V. Employee Benefits and Ownership VII. The Labour Divide - VI. The Future of Work VIII. Immigrants and the Fallacy of Labour Scarcity IX. The Morality of Child Labor X. The Iron Union - A Profile of IG Metall XI. The Demise of the Work Ethic XII. Industrial Action and Competition Laws XIII. Employees and Management Ownership of Firms XIV. Making Your Workers Your Partners XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XVI. Battling Society’s Cancer XVII. To Grow Out of Unemployment The Author - Sam Vaknin 4 Battling Unemployment A First Draft Report Presented to the Minister of Labour and Social Policy By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Formerly Economic Advisor to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia Skopje, Republic of Macedonia April, 2007 Contents I. Recommendations II. The Facts III. Bibliography IV. Appendix – The Keynesian view of Unemployment, Stabilization Theory and Full Employment Budgeting V. Appendix – Unemployment throughout the World (Excerpts from an academic article by R.di Tella and R. MacCullouch, 4/1999) The author wishes to thank Mr. Rafael Di Tella from Harvard University (Harvard Business School) for his assistance in sharing with the author the article he has co-authored with Mr. R. MacCullouch of Bonn University. The author wishes to thank Ms. Lidija Rangelovska for sharing her Country Assessment Survey results for Macedonia with the author. Her survey was prepared in collaboration with the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID) and Prof. Jeffrey Sachs. THIS WORK IS NOT FOR PUBLICATION Copyright permissions must be obtained from Messrs. Di Tella and MacCullouch and from arvard university and Prof. Jeffrey Sachs prior to publication. 5 ... - tailieumienphi.vn