Purpose This paper aimed examining the contribution of female labour force participation rate on economic growth in the sub-Saharan Africa during the period of 1991–2019. Design/methodology/approach The study employed a sample of 42 sub-Sahara African countries using annual data from the World...

Despite the increasing focus on labour markets dynamics, little is known about either the quality of the underlying data or the appropriateness of the standard methodologies frequently used to analyse labour market dynamics in Europe (the retrospective and matched files approaches). This paper...

This paper investigates the determinants of past changes in the labor force of 12 emerging Asian countries, and attempts to make projections of the labor force in those countries for the period 2010-2030. Results from the regression analysis indicate that the labor force has grown faster than...

Growth of engineering colleges in India is exponential. Owing to population explosion, technical institutions are bringing out large number of graduates in all faculties. This paper discusses the technical education scenario in Karnataka. With the data available from National Technical Manpower...

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics introduced the increment-decrement model of labor force activity in Bulletin 2135 in 1982. A subsequent BLS publication, Bulletin 2254, in 1986 also used the increment-decrement methodology. Arguably, worklife expectancies have been the most important progeny of...

We study the restructuring of the labor force after mergers and acquisitions. Overall restructuring is large. Net employment of targets declines by more than half within two years after acquisitions relative to a matched sample, and is concentrated in targets that close all establishments. There...

This paper presents new econometric methods for the empirical analysis of individual labor market histories. The techniques developed here extend previous work on continuous time models in four ways: (1) A structural economic interpretation of these models is presented. (2) Time varying...