Locational preference and unemployment of Asian-born immigrant in the U.S. metropolises

Höschle, Felix; Strielkowski, Wadim; Tcukanova, Olga; Welkins, Emily

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“…61 Some firms in the sector were no longer allowed to expand their production capacities and prices were regulated. 62 By making their use in armament production a precondition for the allocation of iron and steel, the state gained influence over the production programmes of private companies, as is documented in the case of the Flick corporation. 63 Writing on the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, Alexander Donges argues that it was in particular the combination of several regulations that steered the company in the direction preferred by the state.…”

Section: A Organisation Todt and The German Construction Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

I. Introduction: Rebuilding a Continent

2020

Laying the Foundations of Occupation

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Between 1933 and 1945, under the aegis of National Socialist economic policy, German industry overcame a disastrous economic crisis and experienced a boom fuelled by rearmament, before ultimately placing itself in the service of an allembracing war machinery. No aspect of economic life in Germany was able to elude this turn of events. But few sectors of the industry mirrored this development as obviously as construction. The turnovers and profits of German construction companies soared in the course of the 1930s. Industrial and military building programmes as well as the construction of the Autobahn and the Westwall (Siegfried Line) helped to reduce unemployment and prepared the Reich for the war to come. In June 1938, almost 10 percent of the German workforce was employed in construction alone, making it the largest industrial sector in the country's economy. 1 After the outbreak of the war, this massive German construction activity spread all over occupied Europe. The bunkers and gun emplacements of the Atlantic Wall from the Bay of Biscay to the Arctic Sea, airfields, roads and bridges, railways and dams were meant to secure German rule and bind the occupied territories to the new hegemon. More and more often, public authorities like the Armaments Ministry, the Office of the Four Year Plan (Vierjahresplanbehörde) and the Wehrmacht entrusted the planning and administration of their projects to an organisation that had proven its effectiveness during the construction boom of the 1930s: Organisation Todt (OT). The Organisation administered its huge projects with a comparatively small administrative staff consisting of architects and engineers. It provided the construction sites with labour and building materials, while the execution of the projects lay in the hands of private companies. The latter brought along skilled workers, administrative personnel, machines and their technical expertise. During the war, the Organisation had the legal status of a Wehrmacht auxiliary force (Wehrmachtgefolge). This thesis tells the story of the relation between the Organisation Todt and the German construction industry. In particular, it will focus on Einsatzgruppe Wiking (EW), the Organisation's subsidiary in occupied Norway, and its contractors. 2 The thesis rests on the assumption that the OT's German contractors were so vital to its modus operandi that we can only understand the Organisation if we enquire into private industry's role in it. By investigating this relation, I will address three closely related questions. First, I ask what kind of organisation the OT actually was. Only an analysis of the relation between the OT and the construction industry will enable us to situate the OT more precisely in the field between National Socialist

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Section: A Organisation Todt and The German Construction Sectormentioning

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“…However, labor market flexibility is associated not only with the new needs of workers on a free schedule, but also with the market power of employers (Shammas, 2018, p. 415). Neoliberal economic policies, which are developed under the banner of increased efficiency, in practice are often associated with increased bureaucratic oppression (Graeber, 2015), formalism and control (Strielkowski, 2017;Volchik, 2018), which can cause drift towards informal and partial employment. The processes of globalization and migration associated with it may also be one of the actors of precariationalization (Bernards, 2017), which in turn is associated with government policies aimed at protecting the internal labor market.…”

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Entrepreneurshp at the labour market: a case of precariat and informal employment

Volchik¹,

Maslyukova²

2019

JESI

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The concept of precariat is becoming the increasingly important subject of interdisciplinary research that involves both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The formation of the precariat is associated with the neoliberal reforms carried out in the last decades, as well as significant institutional and technological changes. The process of precarisation is accompanied by an increase in insecurity, instability, and flexibility, which is most characteristic of informal and precarious work. Our paper analyzes the relationship between informal employment as a proxy precariat and unemployment rates, industrial production index and real wages using the structural VAR approach for monthly data in the period 2010-2018. The relationship between the variables is checked by imposing restrictions on the recursive scheme (Cholesky identification) as well as the recursive identification scheme (Cholesky decomposition) in the SVAR model. Our analysis of the impulse response caused by the positive shock of informal employment confirmed that in the short term, the increase in the share of people employed in the informal sector causes, above all, a decline in real wages. There are weak responses from the industrial production index, which leads to the conclusion about the leveling effect of institutions and institutions. In addition, the paper employs the process of modeling the development of informal employment using the ARIMA model. Our results showing the trends in the development of informal employment demonstrate the existence of cyclical resilience which negatively affects economic development and requires structural reforms.

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“…accumulation of human capital of an individual) but also as a public good that forms common values and competencies that, in turn, increase the effectiveness of the community as a whole (Natkhov, 2011;Kalyugina et al, 2015;Vasylchak and Halachenko, 2016; or Gulicheva and Osipova, 2017;Tkacova et al, 2018). This becomes an important aspect in the West (including the European Union Member States and their well-designed educational and employment policies) as well as in the East (Čábelkova et al, 2015;Höschle et al, 2015;Jiroudková et al, 2015;Volchik et al, 2018;Senan, 2018).…”

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Trust and development of education and science

Volchik¹,

Maslyukova²

2019

JESI

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Education and science play an increasingly significant role in the development of modern society as well as the economy. The number of years people spend on education has been steadily increasing over the past century, and this phenomenon has become truly global. Thence, one would probably agree that education strengthens its importance in social and economic life, and its development becomes an important indicator of the economic well-being and sustainable development of any given country. Our paper scrutinizes the indicators of development and trust in eduction and science using a case study from Russian Federation, a country where education has a very important, yet a dubious and debatable significance. In Russian society, a paradoxical situation has developed in many ways with attitudes in society towards the state of the education system, which is reflected in the gap in the desire to give their children (or grandchildren for that matter) the highest level of education coupled with a very low rate of assessment of this very education. We measure and apply the indicators of growth of science and education based on the the level of trust which is taken as a proxy of the quality of social capital. We show that a high level of trust characterizes social capital, which contributes to the establishment of depersonalized (impersonal) social ties, both outside and inside organizations. On the other hand, the low level of trust causes a dysfunction of management and complicates the formation of social ties and is characterized by the dominance of institutions that limit the possibilities of social and professional mobility. Our results and outcomes can be useful for constructing economic and social measures for supporting the growth of science and education as well as for finding the most effective pathways for achieving the sustainable development of this field which leads to the increase in the economic competitiveness of a country.

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Locational preference and unemployment of Asian-born immigrant in the U.S. metropolises

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

I. Introduction: Rebuilding a Continent

I. Introduction: Rebuilding a Continent

Entrepreneurshp at the labour market: a case of precariat and informal employment

Trust and development of education and science

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