April 2008

Impact of socio-economic characteristics on formal and informal public transport demands in Kwara state, Nigeria

  This paper looks at the impact of socio-economic characteristics of formal and informal public transport demand in Kwara State, Nigeria. The study is based on a purposively selected set of 256 respondent commuters in the parks of the randomly selected transport enterprises. Evidence from the study shows that income and cost of the trips played prominent roles on the public transport demand in the study area....

Author(s):   Aworemi, J. R, Salami, A. O, Adewoye, J. O and Ilori, M. O  

April 2008

Social dialogue in areas and times of depression: Evidence from regional Greece

  Social Dialogue (SD) constitutes one of the most popular tools for establishing effective cooperation between social partners and one of the most highlighted formulas for resolving social conflicts and disputes in nowadays. Nevertheless, the progress, which has been made so far, was not always encouraging and it seemed that the euphemism around the term is greater than the results of its implementation....

Author(s):   Theodoros Koutroukis and Lefteris Kretsos