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Focuses on the consequences of the European Single Market for migrant workers, especially those from non-Community countries.
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Differential labour market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by estimating private returns to education separately for male and female wage earners. This paper contributes to the...
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This paper uses demand analysis to explore whether intrahousehold allocation of education expenditure differs between boys and girls in rural Sri Lanka.  Contrary to most countries in South Asia a significant bias favouring girls is found in 1990/91 for the 5-9 and 17-19 age groups and in...
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Argues that employment remains depressed in the majority of Eurozone countries and that a further 4.5 million jobs may …
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Labour force participation in India is found to respond to a plurality of causal mechanisms. Employment and unpaid … curve of female employment by education levels. Many women at the bottom of the U are doing extra-domestic work, so a …-domestic work (and are more likely to be `inactive`) than women in other cultural groups. Economic poverty causes employment to be …
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Outlines the global structure of the textiles and clothing industry and reviews trading patterns under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), highlighting the impact of trade policies in the European Union and the USA. Examines the issue of labour standards as a new non-tariff barrier to trade....
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-Korean Government Partnership Programme launched a cross-country project entitled “Comparative analysis of employment policy …
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ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on a comparison of two surveys (1969-70 and 1979-80) of return migration and employment …
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Includes excerpts from the draft International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families, under consideration by the UN General Assembly.
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Covers trends in the 1980s and 1990s. Includes case studies of social and labour policies in eight companies.
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