Summary Report: Third Party Complaint Regarding Cimatextiles, Guatemala

Concluding report on alleged freedom of association violation at a textiles factory in Guatemala

InFocus Programme on Promoting the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work: Freedom of Association Collective Bargaining: Questions and Answers

ILO\u27s questions and answers sheet on freedom of association and collective bargainin

A random effects variance shift model for detecting and accommodating outliers in meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: Meta-analysis typically involves combining the estimates from independent studies in order to estimate a parameter of interest across a population of studies. However, outliers often occur even under the random effects model. The presence of such outliers could substantially alter the conclusions in a meta-analysis. This paper proposes a methodology for identifying and, if desired, downweighting studies that do not appear representative of the population they are thought to represent under the random effects model. METHODS: An outlier is taken as an observation (study result) with an inflated random effect variance. We used the likelihood ratio test statistic as an objective measure for determining whether observations have inflated variance and are therefore considered outliers. A parametric bootstrap procedure was used to obtain the sampling distribution of the likelihood ratio test statistics and to account for multiple testing. Our methods were applied to three illustrative and contrasting meta-analytic data sets. RESULTS: For the three meta-analytic data sets our methods gave robust inferences when the identified outliers were downweighted. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed methodology provides a means to identify and, if desired, downweight outliers in meta-analysis. It does not eliminate them from the analysis however and we consider the proposed approach preferable to simply removing any or all apparently outlying results. We do not however propose that our methods in any way replace or diminish the standard random effects methodology that has proved so useful, rather they are helpful when used in conjunction with the random effects model

Freedom of Association, Social Cohesion and Welfare

How does freedom of association shape social cohesion, individual behavior and welfare, in heterogeneous populations? To answer this question, we develop a theoretical model and conduct experiments with human subjects. We study a network formation and action choice game in which individuals benefit from selecting the same action as their neighbours. However, one group of individuals prefers to coordinate on one action, while the rest prefers to coordinate on the other action.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Freedom Balloons

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.CCC_2011_Report_Cambodia_freedom_balloons.pdf: 7 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Creative Freedom

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Understanding the Motivations of Freedom Summer Freedom School Teachers

Significant movements require serious motivations from those involved. During the Civil Rights Movement, those involved in Freedom Summer of 1964 risked their lives and comfort to advance the Movement. Freedom Summer Freedom School teachers had unique motivations; some motivations were shared amongst the teachers, while others were individual. Although it is difficult to fully understand the motivations of Freedom School teachers, this paper identifies three overarching motivations that were shared amongst the teachers: an understanding that African Americans in the South were denied equality in education, the belief that the curriculum of Freedom Schools would address this educational inequality, and the recognition that education has the power to initiate social change. In addition to identifying these overarching motivations, this paper examines three Freedom School teachers, Chude Pam Allen, Gwendolyn Simmon, and Liz Fusco Aaronsohn in order to explain individual motivations for joining the movement. The purpose of this paper is to point out the depth and complexity of overarching and individual motivations and to illustrate the importance of looking at both in order to fully understand the motivations of those who participate in a movement

The dinosaur and banding of the main pulmonary trunk in the heart with functionally one ventricle and transposition of the great arteries: A saga of evolution and caution

Constitution for the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management as amended by the Board of Trustees on January 24, 1997. The constitution is in English and contains eighteen articles and one annex containing the Board mission statement