The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...

Analyses the factors which have contributed to the perpetuation of the bonded labour system in Nepal and suggests changes in policies and programmes to deal more effectively with the problem. Includes comments on the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No.29) and the Abolition of Forced Labour...

This paper is about diversification activities, and, more accurately, activities of capitalization of the land and commercial rent generated by railway infrastructures, of passenger railway companies. The global situation of these activities in the different parts of the world in 2003-2004 is...

We chose to study two notions that we meet both in the legal and the economic fields, both in our country and beyond the Romanian borders. These are the land and lease rent, both having the legal nature of a contract and in an unequivocal manner regarding ownership of land. At the same time,...

This paper develops an economic growth model with economic structure and geography. The economy consists of one agricultural and one industrial sector and economic geography consists of urban and rural areas. The model synthesizes the main ideas in the Solow growth, the Alonso urban, and the...

Widespread public support exists for the provision of natural amenities, such as lakes, rivers or wetlands, and for efforts to preserve these from agricultural pollution. Agri-environmental policies contribute to these efforts by encouraging farmers to adopt environmentally friendly practices...

Widespread public support exists for the provision of natural amenities, such as lakes, rivers or wetlands, and for efforts to preserve these from agricultural pollution. Agri-environmental policies contribute to these efforts by encouraging farmers to adopt environmentally friendly practices...

We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...

В статье раскрыта сущность и значение природоресурсных платежей в условиях стабильного экономического развития. Рассмотрен механизм использования...