pressure for employment creation has continued to persist and the situation of excess supply of labor, especially in the urban … area, has been worsening. This paper explores the changing patterns of the urban labor market, and identifies the main …

Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous …, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the sources of growth in the potential future labor force are described in this … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for …

The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …

predispositions and can be difficult to influence through policy. Sociology emphasises the role of social norms but recognises that …

Changes in the structure and regulation of employment in Japan differentially impact men and women. The labor force … course, while men are more likely to experience unemployment at the entry and exit points to the labor market. Unemployment … gender segmented labor market, with men continuing in relatively protected and regulated standard employment and women …

There is some indirect evidence that child labor is affected by market imperfections. This paper provides a theoretical … model to discuss the effect of improvements on the labor market, when households cannot rely on neither the land nor the … credit markets. The predictions differ by land ownership: landless or large landowners should decrease child labor when labor …

during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the … effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits variation across countries using non-signers as a comparison group. The … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …

, through public regulation of labor relations. Founder of rights and duties in the labor market, such regulation seeks to … the evolution of labor regulation in Brazil, in the broad historical spectrum ranging from the 1930s to 2000s. …