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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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

-weighted differences-in-differences regressions, we find that small treated firms hire more and higher-skilled labour. In small firms … not support labour and wages fall, suggesting that there are no benefits to labour when funds go to large firms. …

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