This paper brings labour back into the literature on legal empowerment against poverty. Employing a historical lens, I … involved. In all three waves, legal empowerment was won, not bestowed. Labour played a significant role, fighting in each …

Economic research on labour migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the … remittances of overseas migrant labour in the sending country's economy. Recently, due in no small part to the availability of …

expectations and labour market conditions. Our findings indicate that a modified Taylor rule does describe the South African … real economy fluctuations is evident in measures of labour market conditions rather than output gap variables. We conclude … flexibly in the light of labour market conditions. …

, therefore, reduce labour market frictions at the point of entry, contributing to a quicker intake of qualified human capital …

manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar. We find that being located in an industrial zone associates with higher labour productivity …Focusing on labour productivity and working conditions, we investigate the benefits of industrial zones for private …

countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions …, across different types of protective labour regulations (i.e. severance payment, minimum wages, working time), and for … different categories of outsiders (i.e. unemployed workers and employees without access to legally mandated labour benefits). We …

the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …, by decomposing changes in the level and share of manufacturing employment. The results indicate that in most countries …

than 7 per cent annually since 1992, the economy is mostly based on low-productivity agriculture. Manufacturing contributes …

while the manufacturing sector contributed only 4 per cent to GDP in 2011. The economic transformation agenda, otherwise …