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. …

father as recipient was more likely to have positive impacts on girls' schooling, decrease boys' labour in farming while … simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in … schooling in Lesotho and suggests that impacts on child welfare are influenced by time and labour constraints and by gender …

experience higher incomes by diversifying into off-farm self-employment activities. Factors that explain these improvements …

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 … rich microdata, more attention has been paid to the effects of migration on the lives of family members left behind. This …

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

, 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 …, wages increase 10-17 per cent, with growth in employment and net job creation. However, in larger firms the programme does … not support labour and wages fall, suggesting that there are no benefits to labour when funds go to large firms. …