management practices are tightly linked to higher levels of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on …, higher rates of innovation and faster employment growth. Second, there is a substantial dispersion of management practices …

countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …

. It scrutinizes evidence from a series of nationally representative sample surveys and confronts findings from these …, through employment generation, and indirectly through an impact on agricultural wages. The paper illustrates that in Palanpur …, it is only relatively recently that rural poverty decline has become strongly linked to diversification of the village …

between the NMW and the social security system. The NMW was finally introduced in 1999. It has raised the real and relative … pay of low wage workers, narrowed the gender pay gap and now covers around 1-worker-in-10. The consequences for employment … employment effects. The reasons for this include: an impact on hours rather than workers; employer wage setting and labour market …

I study the role of company start-up costs for employment performance. The model is search equilibrium with a new … jointly determined. Higher start-up costs reduce overall employment but increase the size of incumbent firms. I discuss some …

-farm activities takes them out of the village. In this paper, we take this first step by examining trends in employment outside the … there has been a rise in self-employment and non-farm casual labour; activities that take villagers outside Palanpur on a … and that the structural link between land and employment has not changed over time. …

-income parents, especially mothers. It is argued that while popular opinion is generally supportive of mothers taking paid employment …