The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...

The focus of this paper is to examine the impact of having a working mother on their daughter's labor force participation rate for the first time in Turkey by using a representative sample from the third largest city Ýzmir. Our findings indicate that the gender role attitude is one of the most...

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...

The paper focuses on the issue of employee voice during restructuring processes. The notion of “capability for voice” is mobilized to assess to what extent employees are able (and allowed) to express their viewpoints and make them count in the course of corporate restructurings. At first the...

Seit den 80er Jahren ist die Zahl jener Personen im erwerbsfähigen Alter, die keiner bezahlten Beschäftigung nachgehen, in (West-) Deutschland deutlich zurückgegangen. Entsprechend ist unter den 18- bis 67-Jährigen der Anteil derjenigen ohne Job gesunken. Dieser Beschäftigungszuwachs fand...

We investigate why female labour market participation is low in the Arab region. Utilising Akerlof and Kranton's (2000) "identity economics" approach, we show in a simple gametheoretic framework that women socialised in a traditional family environment violate their identities by taking a job....

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolution of labour conditions in public and private security systems in Brazil (and, inside public system, labour conditions in federal and local sub-systems). The number of workers in security services has increased between the 1990?ies and 2000`ies....

We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...