The following installment of MarketEYE offers the reader both an annualized summary and a month-by-month analysis of the global passive electronic component markets for calendar year 2014. Passive electronic components are defined for the ...
Tags: electronic components, Electrical
Economists often measure rates of entrepreneurship by looking at the number of small businesses in an industry or a country. However, in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Magnus Henrekson and Tino ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Improving working conditions in Bangladesh's ready-made garment (RMG) industry is crucial for achieving sustainable growth in the country, says a new report Bangladesh: Seeking better employment conditions for better socioeconomic outcomes, ...
Tags: Sustainable Growth, Bangladesh, RMG
National coal mining employment declined 2.2% year-on-year through the first 10 months of 2013, including a 24% employment rate decrease in Kentucky, according to US Bureau of Labor statistics included in the latest monthly US Energy ...
Tags: Kentucky mines, coal mining
In 2012, 15.2 million foreign citizens worked in the EU27, accounting for 7% of total employment. Among these foreign citizens, 6.6 million were citizens of another EU Member State and 8.6 million were citizens of a country outside the EU. ...
Tags: EU, Labour Force, Foreign Citizens
The employment rate of the 34 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries was 65.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, up 0.1 percentage points compared to the previous quarter and 0.2 percentage points ...
In the fourth quarter last year, the number of persons employed in the euro area decreased by 0.8 percent while employment in the European Union (EU-27) decreased by 0.4 percent, both compared with the corresponding quarter of 2011, ...
Tags: employment, euro area, construction sector
16.2%: that’s the size of the gender pay gap, or the average difference between women and men’s hourly earnings across the EU, according to the latest figures released today by the European Commission. The news comes ahead of ...
Tags: Equal Pay Day, Equality Pays Off, opinion
The employment rate of the 34 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries was 65 percent in the third quarter of 2012, unchanged compared to the previous quarter and 0.2 percentage points higher than the ...
Tags: employment rate, Economic Co-operation and Development, Europe
Workers of the Ilva Genova steelworks protest during a demonstration in Romea gainst the closure of a factory decided by the head of the company. Overhauling Italy’s rigid labor rules was supposed to be Mario Monti’s flagship ...
Tags: Ilva Genova, steelworks, protest, Romea, Monti Code
JGC Corporation announced that its wholly-owned Saudi Arabian subsidiary, JGC Gulf International Co. Ltd. has been awarded a contract for expansion of ethylene manufacturing facilities for the Rabigh phase II project. The contract was ...
Tags: ethylene, ethylene manufacturing facilities, petrochemicals
Taipei, Nov. 1, 2012 (CENS)--Francisco Sanchez, undersecretary for international trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce, announced yesterday (Oct. 31) that the Taiwan-U.S. economic and trade relationship has been upgraded from friendship ...
Tags: international trade, Taiwan-U.S.economic and trade relationship
GE Lighting and Oracle Corp. have announced to strengthen their operations in Hungary, catering for the government's goal to boost employment. For GE Lighting, it is to launch an LED development laboratory, reorganizing engineers from ...
Tags: LED Lighting