Browsing by Subject "labour"

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    • Sri Lanka’s tea industry – too long in adolescence, it’s time to grow up 

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      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-02-26)
      Tea sector wage negotiations periodically go into deadlock. There are political reasons for this situation, but also an overarching economic one: global tea prices have declined – as it periodically happens – and the ...

    • The Tea Industry: A New Sustainability Approach 

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      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-06-09)
      What do unions do? In a landmark title by this name (1984), Harvard University economists Richard Freeman and James Medoff demonstrated that labour unions have two faces. One is confrontational and the other is cooperative. ...

    • A Win-Win Solution for Management and Workers in the Tea industry 

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      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-03)
      Pareto Efficiency is an important concept in economics. It occurs when all win-win opportunities have been fully pursued. In societies as well as in organisations there are numerous opportunities to make changes that leave ...