Provides an overview on the regional impact of EPZ activity during the period 1989-2002, with particular reference to the reduced dependence on traditional exports, generating export revenues, and providing jobs. Studies econometrically which types of enterprises most likely generate backward...

Based on interviews with 13 union officials of both sexes as well as personnel from the Ministry of Labour.

Examines trends in occupational stress and violence experienced by rural and urban transport workers, railway employees, taxi drivers, road freight drivers, and air traffic controllers. Does not cover violence on board civil aircraft.

Working paper of the manpower needs generated by labour intensive fruit and vegetable agricultural production for export, and the agricultural employment of rural women under a traditional sharecropping system in the Oulja region of Morocco. Analyses the impact of economic development on the...

Working paper comprising a case study on the economic role of low income rural women, especially as women workers employed in subsistence farming in Andra Pradesh, India. Covers labour force participation, sexual division of labour, sex discrimination in land tenure and occupational structure,...