Examines ways of measuring the impact of community and institutional variables on individual fertility.

ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper, econometric model of household income per individual, based on a case study of Ecuador - considers income distribution in relation to family size, and number of income earners; examines an income redistribution scheme including tax reform and family...

Working paper on trends in rural women's labour force participation and fertility patterns in China. Examines rural development policy based on the responsibility of the individual, household or work brigade for agricultural production. Covers women workers in agricultural employment and rural...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on basic needs policies in development planning, comprising an empirical case study of Sri Lanka - presents a theoretical framework and economic model for analysing resource allocation efficiency, including the effect on different socio- economic groups and...

Presents the major findings from the national survey into shift work and rostering arrangements conducted in February 2000. Covers trends from 1978 to 1998. Discusses the implications of these trends for working hours, occupational health and safety, family and community life, and industrial...

The paper indicates a number of preventive measures targeted to the elimination of the causes of stress, rather than the treatment of its effects, and how these measures can become an integral part of the necessary organizational development and eventually pay for themselves. The paper has seven...

La globalización es un término en boga que se utiliza para explicar el reciente acercamiento económico y social producido entre los habitantes de naciones distantes. A pesar que la palabra fue acuñada hace unas décadas atrás, este concepto es antiguo. Los países a lo largo de diferentes...

ILO pub. Article on social role of woman workers in contemporary Algerian society - focuses on the destruction of traditional family-based economic structure and the transition to new means of production involving employment of women, changes in life style, and problems of equal opportunity....

Los autores buscan identificar y explicar los principales determinantes del rendimiento de los alumnos de la Universidad del Pacífico durante su primer año de estudios. El análisis econométrico considera variables no pedagógicas como las académicas, psicológicas, socio-familiares y de...