positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan … Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects …

large household survey for rural Pakistan, we estimate structural labour supply models for boys and girls in wage work …

service delivery in Faisalabad, Pakistan’s third largest city. Focusing on changing patterns of residential waste removal and … historically contingent specificities of caste-like relations in urban Pakistan and how these have been constructed. It shows how …

European regions have experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996, as regions with …

unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …

Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of … countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are …), have very high unemployment and most of the rest have comparatively low unemployment. This variability is highly …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …