protection systems can help stabilise the economy in times of crisis, stimulate labour formalisation (especially in developing …

data sets include the Palestinian national accounts, the supply and use table, the balance of payments, the labour force … households and labour accounts according to the workplace (West Bank, Israel and rest of the world), which in turn considers … associating each household and each labour category with their eligibility to work in Israel. In addition to dividing the labour …

This paper undertakes an evaluation of the Labour and Environment chapters of the TPP Agreement, with a view to … there would be only a small area of vulnerability to countermeasures arising from our labour laws and none due to the laws … on the environment. The paper does not recommend a change in our stance on keeping environment and labour out of …

of active labour market programmes, which have thus often been regarded as a model for other countries to emulate. The … feature of the Swedish labour market policy, whereby participation in programmes renews eligibility to generous unemployment …

in favour of a growing industrial sector, particularly manufacturing. We conclude that if donors and recipients were to …

In this paper we study the capital adjustment process in Swedish manufacturing firms and relate the empirical findings …

This paper studies the sub-sectoral contributions to aggregate manufacturing labor share decline in the US between 1979 … and 2019. Using the Log Mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition, the decline in the manufacturing sector's labor share is … manufacturing. Moreover, low labor share sub-sectors (especially Chemical products, Food and Beverage and Tobacco products, and …

Several studies have highlighted that African manufacturing wages are higher than comparator countries at similar … levels of development, which contributes to the continent's lower levels of manufacturing competitiveness. This paper derives … unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of …

The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but … group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that manufacturing is servicifying substantially. Services and qualified … services are increasingly characterising in-house activity in manufacturing. The results imply that treat-ing services and …