En este documento se estudia el impacto de la industrialización de los productos del mar en el trabajo infantil en España durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y el primer tercio del siglo XX. En el mismo se usan algunas fuentes novedosas, Los Libros de Inscripción Marítima, junto con otras...

This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan: first, positive but low rate of return to education and...

Recently there has been an increase on interest in the analysis of job satisfaction variables. The job satisfaction is correlated with certain types of employee behaviour such as: productivity, quits and absenteeism. In this paper four different measures of job satisfaction are related to two...

Economic literature shows significant attention towards the role played by Female labour force in the economic development of nations. The structural changes of economies from agriculture to industrial and services sector reduce the female labour force participation in case of developing nations...

This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...

The purpose of this Paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labour market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...