workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be … granted to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates …

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … family structure with income pooling is less the norm, there are fewer opportunities for paid employment, and aggregate … fertility. These findings suggest that insurance motives underpin the dynamics of women's work participation. Examination of …

public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected …The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … investments, as in Italian manufacturing. Applying GMM-SYS to an employment equation augmented for technology and using a unique …

After discussing theory regarding the consequences of technological change on employment and surveying previous …. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high …-tech manufacturing but absent in the more traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment …

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment …

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …