The UK, with its relatively liberal immigration policies following recent enlargements, has been one of the main recipients of migrants from new EU member states. This paper poses the questions: what is the effect of immigration on a receiving economy such as the UK? Is the effect beneficial or adverse for growth? How differently would skilled (or unskilled) migration affect both receiving and ...

BACKGROUND The scientific evidence available is consistent in linking osteoarthritis (OA) and occupation but is lacking information regarding preventable risks in the workplace. AIMS To explore the effect of different dimensions of physical demand in the relation between self reported OA and occupation. METHODS Nationwide population survey of employed and self employed adults aged 25-64. ...

THE chief ambition of men and of nations is, not merely to maintain present standards, but to aim continually at higher development. The achievement of this ambition lies with the children. Therefore, there is potential value to the State in every baby born a citizen. This potential value will be increased if every child is brought up in healthy conditions, and trained according to its capacity...

Abstract Since the 1960s, feminist historiography has been hard at work challenging established narratives of women’s roles in past societies, although with greater impact some disciplines than others. Studies production ancient world, particular, continue to exclude women from discussions professional labour. When do appear texts, modern scholarship tended treat them either as exceptional case...

I Technology can be defined as the organization of knowledge for the achievement of practical purposes. It consists of knowledge, skills, methods, tools, and machines that enable people to shape materials and produce objects for practical ends. In this paper I will examine the pattern and direction of technological change in the cane sugar industry of the British West Indies and analyze the imp...

Empirical estimates derived in line with the Marxist framework are essential to fully address several topics, from dynamics of profit and exploitation rates unequal exchange, crisis strategies. Edward Ochoa presented implemented a pioneering practical proposal perform such strand calculations widely available input–output data. That leveraged method has become widespread empirical studies. This...

The Enlightenment brought a new mercantilist discourse that stimulated technologies of management to optimise company performance, rendering workers and production phases visible accountable. This spread the colonies, including Ecuador. article uses governmentality framework present case study Hacienda San Ildefonso (in present-day Ecuador). Within Hacienda, an obraje (textile workshop) was est...

Abstract Relying on the Labour Force Survey and monthly revenue statistics of Hungarian Central Statistical Office, we assess immediate economic impact first wave COVID-19 pandemic in two quarters 2020 . We analyse role job loss, working time reduction, downtime, telework adjustment to crisis. The findings reveal an even more serious setback increase inequality than 2008–2009. School leavers, y...

This paper develops a new latent index of human capital identified as valuable skills for seventy countries for the period 1970-2003. The index is compared to existing measures of human capital in assessing the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) model of logistic technology diffusion. The study undertakes extensive sensitivity analysis and accounts for alternative production functions, capital-skill c...