Basic and Nonbasic Employment Linkages

Rural-Urban Linkages for Growth, Employment, and Poverty Reduction

Poverty and Young Women’s Employment: Linkages in Kerala

This paper explores one of the key issues in current research on gender and development: the links between poverty and young women’s employment. Specifically, the following questions were addressed, in the context of Kerala: Which young women work for pay and why? To what extent is a woman’s household economic status -especially poverty status -an important determinant of employment, and to wha...

Linkages and Rural Non-Farm Employment Creation: Changing Challenges and Policies in Indonesia

Increasing problems of rural unemployment in Indonesia are at the core of this report. Numbers of unemployed increased dramatically after the 1997 economic crisis and millions of people searched to be reabsorbed in rural labour markets. Agricultural land is scarce, however, and entry barriers are often high in non-farm businesses. Access to capital and information is limited for the rural poor ...

Rural and Urban Linkages

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Human Resource Management, Employee Attitudes and Workplace Performance: An Examination of the Linkages Using the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey

Acknowledgements Material from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey (2004) has been made available by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) through the UK Data Archive. We would also like to acknowledge the financial assistance of BERR. None of these bodies is responsible for the views expressed in the paper. The views expressed in this report are the authors' and do not necessarily reflec...