...Sohan Clarisse Dembele; Patrice Rélouendé Zidouemba Purpose This study investigates the determinants of employment in Burkina Faso, with a particular focus on gender disparities. Despite the country’s economic growth, unemployment and underemployment remain pervasive, disproportionately affecting...

... gender inequalities in employment access and compensation in Senegal, assessing whether these differences arise from discrimination or disparities in productive skills. Design/methodology/approach This study investigates inequalities in labor market access and pay between men and women using...

...Quoc Dung Ngo; Quynh Hoa Nguyen; Pham Ngoc Toan Purpose This study investigates the impact of the European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) on Vietnam’s labor market and employment outcomes, considering the potential distributional consequences across various groups of workers...

...Cecília Dutra Carolino; Giullia Gallego; Alexandre Nicolella; Elaine Toldo Pazello Purpose This paper evaluates the short-term impact of childcare centres' closures, due to COVID-19 restrictions, on Brazilian mothers' labour force participation and employment rates. Design/methodology/approach...

... can be contacted at: arlene.ozanne@otago.ac.nz 22 09 2021 16 12 2021 04 02 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ageing Government policy Immigration Labour Employment Income and wages This study...

... that allow employees to respond to both work and family needs (Chinchilla and Moragas, 2007). One of the conceptual dimensions of FRC is the work–family balance or work–life balance. This dimension refers to policies, practices and employment standards implemented by the organization with the aim...

... in terms of employment and earning. This study examines how ability and proficiency in Canada's two official languages, separately and/or jointly, influences immigrants' quick absorption into the labour market. Design/methodology/approach The study uses all three waves of the Longitudinal Survey...

... 29 01 2021 02 06 2021 19 07 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Age structure Employment Labour market Occupational choices Socio-economic factors J01 J21 J24 The significance of age structure...

... openness shock on Nigerian labour market performance. Findings The results of the first model showed that trade openness has an adverse effect on employment and wages in both the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. Likewise, the study concludes that the new trade theory explains trade's behaviour...

...Tarannum Azim Baigh; Chen Chen Yong; Kee Cheok Cheong Purpose This study aims to explore, in the context of Machinery and Equipment sector of Malaysia, the association between average wages and share of employment in automatable jobs, specifically whether the association between average wages...

...Edel Walsh; Aileen Murphy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of having minor children on parents' life satisfaction. Given the demands on working parents in terms of their time and financial resources, the authors suspect a complex interaction between employment...

...Amira Mohamed Emara Purpose This study aims to investigate the effect of technological progress on employment in Egypt in the period 1990–2019. Design/methodology/approach The study applies a vector autoregressive (VAR) model and uses patents as a measure of innovation outputs. Findings...

...Hila Axelrad; Arie Sherman; Israel Luski Purpose The current study investigates the association of employment at older age (60–80 years ) with the cognitive component of subjective well-being (SWB): life satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach Out of the Survey of Health, Ageing...

... (following Cornwell et al. methodology) and assesses the impact of R&D expenditure on the performance indices. Secondly, it measures the capital intensity across various groups of industries to reflect on the “employment problem”. Findings Innovation does not seem to enhance the performance...

...Fernando Bermejo; Eladio Febrero; Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide broader understanding of the significant role that the pension system has in the Spanish economy by estimating the sectoral production, employment and income sustained by pensioners...

... of an economy that ensures the inclusive growth within a country. Originality/value In this study, proxies used for fiscal policy are government expenditures and tax revenues as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) to examine its impact on the certain measures of inclusive growth such as employment...

... Employment Women Poverty Paid–unpaid work J16 J21 J82 India has adopted the philosophy of “faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth” in the process of economic development of the country. Despite having a decent growth rate over the past two decades and moving toward a new growth...

... improvements ensure that the results are robust to the sample selection bias, as well as the endogeneity bias. We use the data from the employment and unemployment survey, which is a part of the 68th round (2011-2012) of survey conducted by the NSSO. The survey was conducted across 7,469 villages and 5,268...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Employment Family Gender Empowerment Equality Division of labour As the gay rights movement gains momentum, greater attention is directed toward the discrimination faced by gay, lesbian, and bisexual...

... and environmental background to specific features of individual processes of choices and decision making – affect preferences and functioning’s. The study also identifies how “under-employment” complements the use of BE/social influence in explaining labour market inactivity, and highlights how the findings...