ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the relationship between migration trends and social structure - argues that landowner-rural worker relations based on land tenure and feudalism comprise a foundation for increased mobility and the transition to capitalism (i.e. Social class differentiation,...

Based on the ILO's Bulgarian Labour Flexibility Survey. Data covers the period 1989 to 1992.

Based on the Philippines Labour Flexibility Survey carried out in late 1990, covers 1,311 industrial establishments during the period from 1988 to 1990. Examines the forms and levels of external labour flexibility practices in the country.

Based on data from the Labour Flexibility Survey of 1988 in Malaysia which covered 3,100 manufacturing firms, and the Labour Flexibility Survey of 1990 in the Philippines which covered 1,311 industrial firms.

This note gives a fairly complete statistical description of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter (1997) which has been proposed in the context of my seasonal adjustment method (Schlicht 1981, 1984). A statistics estimator for the smoothing parameter is proposed that is asymptotically equivalent to the...