Ghanaian custom views children as members of either their mother's or father's lineage (extended family), but not both …. Patrilineal custom charges a man's lineage with caring for his widow and children, while matrilineal custom places this burden on …, Ghana enacted the Intestate Succession (PNDC) Law 111, 1985 and 1998 Children's Act 560 to force men to provide for their …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of the irreversibility of the retirement decision on labour supply … labour market to be able to benefit from changes in preferences or economic environment favourable to participation … retirement is allowed. Moreover labour supply around 60 increases with uncertainty. Simulations show that the impact of an …

and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase … men's willingness to do so. When we focus specifically on the effects of pre-school children, our results suggest it is …

-breadwinners’). This basically involves the still widely held ‘lump of labour fallacy’; and it is refuted by not only economic logic but by … argument concerns the validity of freely-negotiated labour contracts, containing provisions for mandatory retirement. In the … freely negotiated). The paper also addresses labour union concerns to protect normal retirement benefits at 65 (when most do …

and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase … men's willingness to do so. When we focus specifically on the effects of pre-school children, our results suggest it is …