The presented work is based mainly on the results of “Survey of Information Specialists Labour Market in the Baltic States”, a research project which was undertaken by the Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University and the Department of Information Studies at the Tallinn University of Educational Sciences. The objective of the research was to establish the main tendencies in the labour mark...

The Theoretical Relevance of an Updated Marxian Theory of Commodity in Economics Pablo Emiliano Ahumada Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand. How does material production become socially recognised in Capitalist production? Capitalism breaks down the immediate unity of the material and social moments of production, characteristic of previous modes, into two interlocked yet autonomous sph...

One rôle of labour economics is to evaluate the impact of government initiatives, such as employment and education schemes, on economic indicators such as income, the purpose being to inform the introduction of future schemes and policy changes: Should more adult training programmes be funded? Should education be made compulsory until the age of 18? Evaluating the effect of such policies is far...

The study was conducted at the School of Economics, University of Nottingham, October 2008 in Economic Data analysis module to examine the extent of wage differentials for the women who have actively participated in the UK labour market from 1991 to 2001 from British household panel survey. The extent of wage discrimination decreases with level of academic qualification. The wage differential i...

THE EARLIEST KEYNES LECTURES tended to be on Keynesian subjects, either Keynes himself or the parts of economics on which he was a major influence. More recently that habit of piety has weakened or disappeared. I intend to go back to it, but not in the sense that I will be concerned with what Keynes or later Keynesians thought about this or that. The connection is more abstract. The macroeconom...

The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call ‘the wider effects of migr...