via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and … over and above any income effect induced by the scheme and is robust to concerns about endogeneity of labour force … which children's educational outcomes improve is empowerment of mothers resulting from better labour market opportunities …

white collar and blue collar workers, and between manufacturing and most other industrial sectors. …

subject to nonconvex adjustment costs. The dataset concerns Norwegian plants operating in manufacturing industries and it … covers the period 1993-2005. The estimates indicate that it is advantageous to adjust the stock of labour and capital … simultaneously. The cost advantage of simultaneous changes is small for capital but is large for labour. The empirical results …

change sign (the wedge may become a premium). In any case, the same pension contribution will discourage labour less if the …

For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour … issue of labour market flexibility in transition countries by studying the optimality and efficiency of labour usage among … Estonian manufacturing enterprises. A dynamic model is employed where both the long run optimal level of employment and the …

attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. However, it becomes clear upon closer … occupations with reference to institutional conditions, industrial relations and patterns of labour supply and demand, in …

administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …

using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of … account for 90 per cent of total manufacturing employment. In order to contrast between a 'modernization' and a 'stagnation … traditional informal activities is related to increased outsourcing by formal manufacturing enterprises. …

(increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last … model for a sample of 400 Italian manufacturing firms, showing that upskilling is more a function of the reorganisational …

This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries … manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. … applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years covering 1980/81 to 2001/02. We …