This paper measures the impact of strengthening the security policy on the rural labour market in Colombia by exploiting the structural change in the number of rural seizures. The new policy produced dissimilar effects across gender, age-groups, and types of occupation. For adults, especially...

The widespread recognition that the UK is very short of skilled manpower, particularly in the information technology field calls for urgent measures. The article outlines a practical scheme for developing and upgrading young people in the middle ability band — the people who have been...