... areas, suffered greater penalties in the labour market due to the closure of childcare centres. Originality/value Few studies could distinguish the pandemic effects directly associated with childcare centres' closures. The paper is the first to analyse the Brazilian case, undertaking an original...

...Dhananjay Kumar; Nitin Bisht; Indrajeet Kumar Purpose This study aims to identify the role of age structure in occupational choices and the classification of the occupations based on the age structure of individuals in the Indian labour market. Design/methodology/approach This study uses...

...Rosalia Castellano; Antonella Rocca Purpose This paper investigates the causes of the gender gap in the labour market that cannot be explained by classical human capital theory. Design/methodology/approach To this end, the authors integrate the Gender Gap in the Labour Market Index (GGLMI...

... of family support during adolescence on the Spanish labor market. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Spain Unemployment Intergenerational transmission Labour market Household composition D10 E24 I32 We note that our work...

...Swati Sharma; Prateek Sharma Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the incidence and determinants of educational mismatch in the Indian labour market. It also attempts to measure the wage effects of educational mismatch, and other individual and work-related characteristics. Design...

... the economic justification for policy intervention to correct the distorted level of employment of older workers in the labor market. Malul Miki can be contacted at: malul@som.bgu.ac.il © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 H3. The degree to which employers associate with older...

... and identifies the factors which explain participation of the children in the labour market. It also focuses on some of the outcomes of labour market participation of the children. Design/methodology/approach Based on the primary survey of the slum households in four Indian cities this paper applies certain...

...Anastasia Klimova; Russell Ross Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine trends in gender inequalities in the Russian labour market between 1994 and 2001, the early period of the transition to the market economy from the old Soviet Union. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines...

..., this wholly undeclared labour market is spatially variable, with relatively affluent populations engaging in largely informal self‐employment which is relatively well‐paid, while relatively deprived populations conduct either low‐paid “sweatshop‐like” waged labour or low‐paid informal self‐employment under...

... between the two earning, incidence of child labor increases. Hence, a positive relation is expected between the two variables. Education Poverty Pakistan Children (age groups) Labour market The complex issue of child labor is a developmental issue, worth to investigate. The notion...

... addressed to 165 immigrants and 40 key‐informants. Findings The immigrants' ability to improve their economic conditions stems mainly from three labour market characteristics which differentiate the Greek countryside from other major host countries' rural areas. The first is the interpersonal relation...

...Ana Paula Martins Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the labor market outcome when there are two unions in the industry, representing heterogeneous workers – substitutes or complements in production – and using wage strategies, in the presence of minimum wage regulation. Design...

... at 27hepe@wiwi.uni‐muenster.de © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Germany Immigration Labour market Our out‐migration analysis in the present paper is based on a set of factors influencing return migration and obtained from previous empirical findings. The determinants can...

... This could be the first ever effort in describing child labor incidence with the help of VAR technique for Pakistan. Uzma Iram can be contacted at: u_iram@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 International trade Pakistan Children (age groups) Labour market Poverty...

... features of the labor market, this paper aims to explore whether a broad change in social attitudes towards women's roles may form the basis for such phenomena. Design/methodology/approach A unique set of questions from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth which asks the same respondents about...

... to the globalization of jobs via offshoring. This is important to the IDA and to economic development practitioners in other countries facing the loss of jobs to globalization and offshoring. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Employment Labour market Globalization Outsourcing Call centres Ireland...

... Workplace Industrial democracy United States of America Human capital Labour market Economic history In the United States, a combination of unique historical conditions and a specific set of public policies enabled labor to significantly increase its relative power during the quarter century...

... with between‐group inequality and thus help to explain the rise in overall earnings inequality. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Education Globalization Innovation Labour Market After the Second World War and until the early 1990s, few academic papers dealt with economic inequality despite some...

... for inequality, nor does it imply that government activism is futile. The family structure argument recasts but does not negate the struggle for economic justice for Afro‐Americans. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Discrimination Black people Labour market Inequality Income Yet the gap in living...

...Anne de Bruin Peter   Auer . Employment Revival in Europe: Labour Market Success in Austria, Denmark, Ireland and The Netherlands . International Labour Office , 2000 . 148 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 92‐2‐110841‐4   £11.95 © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Labour market...