Theophilus Miguel “T. M.” Silvia was born in 1877 on Ilha de São Nicolau, a mountainous island in the Republic of Cabo Verde, the volcanic archipelago nation off the coast of West Africa known to Americans as Cape Verde. Silvia (whose surname many old-timers pronounced “Silvey”) came to the United States as a young man […]
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Thursday, March 1
"The Danish 'Flexicurity' Labor-Market Model and the Question of Cross-National Transferability of Institutions"
12:45-2 p.m.
Clark Hall, room 130
Anna Ilsoe, research fellow at the University of Copenhagen's Employment Relations Research Centre, will outline Denmark's flexicurity and whether it could be transferred to the United States.