The world is experiencing significant, largely economic and sociotechnical, induced change. These induced changes are meaningful with a function of people taking collective actions around common beliefs. These changes are more than jargon, cliché and hyperbole, and they are effecting major...

Child labourers play an integral role in households’ income diversification process by contributing to farm and non-farm incomes but policies, including that of the ILO have focused largely on eliminating child labour from the agricultural sector through education. This study sought to...

The world of work is neatly divided into two parts – that of men and women. While men are more into remunerative and recognised work, women shoulder the burden of unpaid and often unrecognised forms of work. Being out of paid formal labour market, they are not paid for their work and hence...

This paper examines factors associated with the variation in female labour force participation rates across NSS regions in rural India. Our results based on quadratic form of equation for regression analysis show that the relationship between income and females’ labour force participation rate...

Оценка на развитието на трудовия пазар в периода 2008-2015 г. като база за постигане на дългосрочните цели до 2020 г. За целта е установено началното състояние през 2008 г....

This paper investigates the causal impact of reducing low-skilled temporary foreign workers (TFWs) on job vacancies in South Korean manufacturing sectors, using the COVID-19 quarantine policy as a natural experiment. The research applies Difference-in-Differences analysis with a shift-share...

In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...

The demographic structure of Egypt has the form of a pyramid, indicating that labour supply will grow at a relatively high rate for many years to come. Unless emigration flows will rise, Egypt needs to create jobs at a much higher pace than most other countries around the globe to absorb the new...

The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...

An institutional trap emerges in the gap between actual wage rate in Ukraine and the wage that provides the growth in working-age population. This activates the mechanism of demographic trap.