...Paramita Roy; Anshuman Barua Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the labour force participation among the elderly population (aged 60 and above) in India from data available for the most recent time periods. The paper reviews the types of employment, industries and occupations...

... phenomenon, thus rendering a strict causal relationship between work ethic and productivity tenuous in nature. Despite this, it is a recognised reality that there is a substantive “negativity” in the work ethic of the South African labour force, possibly in relation to historical and cultural factors...

... of communitarian beliefs may be harder to achieve. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Children Labour force Codes of practice Developing countries International standards In the past decade there has been growing awareness of the continuing practice of child labor in the less developed countries (LDCs...

... of the Marshall Plan was in the growth of manufacturing industries in Western Europe, the fact is that employment in these industries accelerated during the first decades after the war. Nonetheless, in none of the OECD countries did employment in manufacturing amount to more than one‐third of the labor force...

... the specification of the underlying economic model of crime and to the estimation of the statistical relationships in the data. Uses improved data measures ‐ notably sentence length ‐ that represent more suitable proxies for the theoretical concepts of interest. The inclusion of labour force participation...