study concentrates on participation or non-participation in employment, with non-participation defined broadly to include … difficulties, data from the British Household Panel Study are used to construct models of the probability of being in employment …, controlling for various constraints. Starting from the position that all non-employment is voluntary, possible constraints are …

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 …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …

techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment …. We find that transitions in and out of employment for men are relatively independent of other transitions. In contrast …, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro …

We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the “three worlds of welfare”, Anglo …-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes …. Anglo-Saxon lowsupport policies encourage more overall market employment. Continental transfer policies encourage more home …

We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the “three worlds of welfare”, Anglo …-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes …. Anglo-Saxon low-support policies encourage more overall market employment. Continental transfer policies encourage more home …

Few microfinance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneurship. This paper considers one possible … explanation: that the structure of existing microfinance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected return investments. To … microfinance institution in India. The experiments confirm the theoretical predictions that joint liability creates two …