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cuencas de empleo

English translation: labo(u)r catchment areas

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Spanish term or phrase:	cuencas de empleo
English translation:	labo(u)r catchment areas

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13:56 Nov 8, 2009

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Spanish term or phrase: cuencas de empleo

This expression appears a lot on google, but I'm not sure how to translate it, any ideas? The context is decentralised cooperation and here is an extract:
...las agrupaciones creadas para responder específicamente a problemas concretos (cuencas de empleo, comarcas naturales, asociaciones intercomunales para la gestión de determinados servicios, etc.). Thanks!

emikiel KudoZ activity Questions: 1 (none open) Answers: 0 Spain
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labo(u)r catchment areas

Explanation:
[PDF] Catchment area – labour force - [ Traducir esta página ]Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
Fredericia enjoys a large catchment area for highly qualified skilled labour thanks to the good access conditions via the motorway system. ...
www.fredericiakom.dk/.../1WorkforceFactsheetsFredericiaenge... - Similares
Appendix 8.6 Socio-economic analysis of catchment area of proposed ... - [ Traducir esta página ]This may reflect earlier completion of secondary level education in the East of the catchment area, with entry into the labour force occurring at a younger ...
www.dast.gov.ie/pdfs/.../campusappendix8f.html - En caché - Similares
Education, health, and social work main employment sectors in ... - [ Traducir esta página ]2 Oct 2009 ... Ninety four per cent of those living in the Castlebar labour catchment area work in some part of county Mayo. Of these, 45 per cent work in ...
www.advertiser.ie/mayo/article/17479 - En caché - Similares

The term 'labo(u)r shed' term, formed by analogy with 'water shed', may be excessively specialist for Asker's source text, but is certainly used in academic/political circles:

http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/569/56906509.pdf
(see bottom of p. 122, LH column)

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mediamatrix
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Local time: 12:12

Grading comment

Thanks to everbody, your suggestions really help.
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labo(u)r catchment areas

mediamatrix

geographic labor/labour markets

Kathryn Litherland

job / labor niches

Richard Boulter

job pools

liz askew

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32 mins confidence:

geographic labor/labour markets

Explanation:
There are some hits for the more direct translation of "labor basin", but I think a choice that reflects the concept, rather than the specific metaphor, would be more widely recognized by an English-speaking audience.

Kathryn Litherland
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54 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

labo(u)r catchment areas

mediamatrix
Chile
Local time: 12:12
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PRO pts in category: 30

Grading comment

Thanks to everbody, your suggestions really help.

2 hrs confidence:

job pools

Explanation:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&as_q=job pools&as_epq=&...

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Staffing the contemporary organization: a guide to planning, ... - Google Books Result
by Donald L. Caruth, Gail D. Handlogten - 1997 - Business & Economics - 325 pages
Establishing Job Pools The first step in conducting an adverse impact ... A job pool is a group of jobs having essentially the same minimum level of ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0275955230...

don't know if this fits the Sp meaning

liz askew
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13 hrs confidence:

job / labor niches

Explanation:
A way to generalize about groups of people who work in the same job for different entities.

This is a different connotation from Liz's excellent suggestion of a 'job pool' meaning, which may be the correct one for your context. Perhaps other concepts in your source text will give you the right take on the Query term.
Best of luck!

Richard Boulter
United States
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