This paper examines an issue of overwhelming importance in South Africa--unemployment and its rise. It explains the factors behind the sharp rise in unemployment in the post-apartheid period, investigates the role of labour legislation and the system of labour market governance, evaluates the...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Vorbemerkung zur 1. Auflage -- Vorbemerkung zur 2. Auflage -- Einleitung -- KAPITEL I. Aus der Frühgeschichte der Wissenschaft -- KAPITEL II. Aus der Geschichte der griechischen Wissenschaft -- KAPITEL III. Zwischen Griechenland und Renaissance -- KAPITEL...

This paper examines the relationship between teacher unionization, student achievement and teachers' pay using a cross-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within-pupil variation in achievement and find that union...

This study investigates public-private sector wage differentials for male and female waged employees in Pakistan. This is done using latest nationally representative data from the Pakistan Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM) 2005. We adopt three methodologies to obtain robust estimates of...

This study investigates the economic outcomes of education for wage earners in Pakistan. This is done by analysing the relationship between schooling, cognitive skills and ability, on the one hand, and economic activity, occupation, sectoral choice and earnings, on the other. In Pakistan, an...