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Effects on Wage and Employment after Implementation of Social Security Norms in the Agricultural Labour Market
Kundu, Amit - 2009
who are unorganized in nature in such a time when cultivation is not very profitable and employment generations in the … agricultural sector are declining. This paper is a theoretical attempt to identify the impact on agricultural employment and … social security norm including higher minimum wage not only decreases the overall employment generation in the agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214265
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Application of ICT to Agriculture as a Panacea to Unemployment in Nigeria
Tolulope Kehinde, Kayode-Adedeji; Agwu, Dr. Edwin M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This study looked at the relevance of agriculture in the Nigeria society and the need for employment and application of … and application of ICT as a veritable but untapped employment opportunity. The study also revealed that there is need to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123518
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Where to work?: The role of the household in explaining gender differences in labour market outcomes
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2006
With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274520
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Where to work? Gender differences in labor market outcomes during economic crisis
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - 2011
In Central and Eastern European women started the process of transition from socialist to market economies with a status quo that differed markedly from women in both developed western and traditional developing economies. They enjoyed an equal or higher level of education than men, virtually no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281891
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Anatomy of the Czech Labour Market:From Over-Employment to Under-Employment in Ten Years?
Flek, Vladislav; Galuscak, Kamil; Gottvald, Jaromir; … - Česká Národní Banka - 2004
In this volume we investigate the macroeconomic aspects of labour market behaviour and its microfoundations. In the first part we deal with aggregate labour market trends and issues relevant to macroeconomic policy. The second part analyses in more detail labour flexibility, namely labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094095
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Where to Work? Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes during Economic Crisis
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2011
In Central and Eastern European women started the process of transition from socialist to market economies with a status quo that differed markedly from women in both de-veloped western and traditional developing economies. They enjoyed an equal or higher level of education than men, virtually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025182
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Back to the Future - Changing Job Profiles in the Digital Age
Stephany, Fabian; Lorenz, Hanno - 2019
technological unemployment reawakens. Frey and Osborne (2013) estimate that half of US employment will be automated by algorithms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053689
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Inequality and specialization : the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884083
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The Channels of Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : A Cross-Country Comparison
Franzini, Maurizio - 2013
Family background can influence offspring earnings in two ways: conditioning their educational attainments (indirect effect) and circumscribing their opportunities in the labour market, independently from their educational attainment (direct effect). In this paper, following a multi-steps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077019
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Back to the future : changing job profiles in the digital age
Lorenz, Hanno; Stephany, Fabian - 2018
In light of increasingly "smarter" technologies, the future of (human) labour is questioned on a daily basis. A study by Frey and Osborne (2013), one of the most recognised contributions in this domain, estimated that half of the US labour force is highly susceptible to computerisation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790864