This study highlights the bidirectional relationship between women’s empowerment and economic development including Bangladesh from South Asia and Vietnam from Southeast Asia. With quantitative analysis, the study investigates the U-shaped hypothesis between Bangladesh and Vietnam and runs the...

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed to this development...

The structural transformation of the Indian economy from agriculture (primary sector) dominated to one led by the services sector (tertiary sector), bypassing the intermediate stage of manufacturing (secondary sector) led growth, offers an alternative to conventional theories of economic...

The 2010 Census confirmed that Brazil is experiencing a substantial demographic transformation. In 1990, the fertility rate was 2.8 per woman, but by 2010 it had fallen to 1.9, a rate well below the population replacement. Projections suggest that the Brazilian fertility rate will be among the...

How important are female workers for economic growth? This paper presents empirical evidence that an increase in female labor force participation is positively associated with labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 10 Canadian provinces over 1990-2015, we found that a 1 percentage point...

This paper examines the relationship between economic growth, household's income, child labour and school attendance in Colombia. It also analyses the impact of the economic recession of 1999 on child labour and education. An important contribution of this paper is the use of micro and macro...