This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries …, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model … manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. …

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community …

In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about …

unionized follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to late 40s. By using a special test for an … inverted U-shaped pattern that has not been applied to the age-membership nexus before, and by constructing exact confidence … findings suggest that more definitive evidence is needed before the existence of international unionization-age patterns can be …

who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay …

negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference … age groups, and most surprisingly, even own income becomes insignificant for those over 45, while education has …

teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but …

two applicants differ with respect to characteristics such as gender, age, education, experience, ethnicity, religious …