countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …

, through employment generation, and indirectly through an impact on agricultural wages. The paper illustrates that in Palanpur … previously disadvantaged and most vulnerable segments of village society have gained access to non-farm employment opportunities …

pay of low wage workers, narrowed the gender pay gap and now covers around 1-worker-in-10. The consequences for employment … employment effects. The reasons for this include: an impact on hours rather than workers; employer wage setting and labour market …

I study the role of company start-up costs for employment performance. The model is search equilibrium with a new … jointly determined. Higher start-up costs reduce overall employment but increase the size of incumbent firms. I discuss some …

-farm activities takes them out of the village. In this paper, we take this first step by examining trends in employment outside the … there has been a rise in self-employment and non-farm casual labour; activities that take villagers outside Palanpur on a … and that the structural link between land and employment has not changed over time. …

-income parents, especially mothers. It is argued that while popular opinion is generally supportive of mothers taking paid employment …

results show that vocational qualifications at all levels can improve the employment chances of unqualified school leavers … acquired before employment is attained. There are also small effects on occupational mobility, but little impact on wages …