This book is a comprehensive survey of mineral, power, forest and agricultural resources and their present and potential use in Tanzania. It is also a detailed study of the location, processing and utility of different raw materials to be found in Tanzania. Furthermore it gives information on...

According to the Labour Force Survey, about 20% (approximately 7.5 million) of the non-student working-age population were not in paid employment in 2002. Of these people about one in five were classified as unemployed, with the remainder labelled as 'inactive.' Despite this categorisation,...

In this paper, annual indices of labor input adjusted for the education, age and gender distributions of the UK workforce are presented for the period 1975-2002. These measures show that improvement in labor quality, as proxied by education, age and gender, has added on average 0.67 percentage...

This article explains how changes in payroll taxes might affect real wages and employment. It then estimates the responses of relative wages, prices and employment to the changes in employers' National Insurance Contributions (NICs) that occurred in 1999. The empirical evidence is based on...