Summary Building on a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson framework with factor price rigidities, this paper provides an empirical analysis of the relationship between trade, technical progress, and the labor market in West Germany for the period from 1970 until 1990. The analysis builds on relative...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish empirically whether there is any foundation in the premise that female officers' lesser tenure and/or lower levels of commitment than men explain their lack of career progress. Although the number of women in UK police forces has grown...

Childcare facilities and assistance for working parents are widely advocated on demographic, economic, political and socio‐psychological grounds – which are all scrutinised. Yet the provision in Britain, as documented in this article, remains unsystematic, uneven and ill‐adapted to the...

Purpose – Contrary to the view that the subsistence economy is some minor residue persisting in only a few peripheral enclaves of modern economies, the purpose of this paper is to begin to chart the importance and prevalence of subsistence work across the contemporary economic landscape and...

Abstract Seit Mitte der neunziger Jahre ist die Niedriglohnbeschäftigung in Deutschland stark gestiegen. Im europäischen Vergleich hat Deutschland mittlerweile einen der höchsten Werte unter den kontinentaleuropäischen Ländern. Gleichzeitig ist die Aufstiegsmobilität aus dem...

Zusammenfassung Die Existenz und die Entwicklung betriebsinterner Arbeitsmärkte ist von nicht zu unterschätzender Bedeutung für die Lohn- und Qualifikationsstruktur in einer Wirtschaft. Der vorliegende Beitrag betrachtet drei Aspekte betriebsinterner Arbeitsmärkte: Erstens ist - einhergehend...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare typical social problems in Germany and Japan in the context of weavers and female weavers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares Gerhardt Hauptmann's Weavers (1892) with Wakizo Hosoi's The Tragic History of Female Weavers (1925)....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically review the literature to assess the relevance of the S‐shaped model of family labor supply for industrialized countries. Design/methodology/approach – Studies use a wide variety of methodologies and therefore are not readily comparable,...

Purpose – In this paper the aim is to focus on the individual distribution of gender wage discrimination in Spain and Italy, relying upon the development of Jenkins' distributional approach proposed in Del Rio et al. Design/methodology/approach – The authors estimate the degree of individual...

Purpose – This paper aims to study the relation between the employment of mothers and the activities of children with the aim of contributing to the understanding of child work in India. Design/methodology/approach – Multinomial logit specifications of children's activities and mothers'...