In developing countries without universal social safety nets, co-residence between older parents and adult children is a central feature of old-age security arrangements. However, the impact of the health status of elderly on adult care-giving members’ labour supply is less well-known. In this paper we use data from the 2000 Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS 3), to examine the impact of care-...

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The problem of qualifications recognition is particularly acute for NESB women those least likely to be Principal Applicants, most likely (along with refugees) to be out of the labour force at the time of migration, and therefore least likely to get their qualifications assessed in advance. The consequences can be profound, given that women's intermittent participation in the labour force means...

One of the most pressing socio-economic problems of the South African economy is high youth unemployment. Recent studies only briefly examined how youths have fared since the transition by comparing the 1995 October Household Survey with a Labour Force Survey, and hardly investigated whether the discouraged workseekers are different from the unemployed. This paper re-examined youth unemployment...

Childhood Sexual Abuse and Later-Life Economic Consequences The impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) on later-life health outcomes has been studied extensively and links with depression, anxiety and self-harm have been established. However, there has been relatively little research undertaken on the possible impact of CSA on later-life economic outcomes. Here, we explore whether older men who...

Globalization has added a powerful new dimension to the link between development and the four dimensions of decent work--basic labour rights and standards, employment, socioeconomic security, and social dialogue. Pre-globalization, the mainstream view was that successful development would clearly imply progress on the two economic dimensions of decent work, namely employment and socioeconomic s...

Severity of Work Disability and Work This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work limitation scale. A dynamic labour force participation model is used to capture the feedback effect of past participation on current participation. The results suggest that net of persistence and unobserved heterogeneity, differences in severi...

This paper uses data from the 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth of the Bank of Italy in order to estimate a reduced form purist model of female fertility and labour force participation. In particular, we focus our attention on the effect of formal education on both fertility and labour force participation behaviour. Our estimates show that education raises both the probability of givin...

This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of l ow achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is then to investigate to what extent unqualified school leavers can improve their labour market statu...

This paper attempts, using data from the British Labour Force Survey 1996, to examine to what extent differences in labour market outcomes between able-bodied and disabled men may be attributed to differences in endowments of human capital and associated productivity differences. Both labour force participation and selectivity corrected human capital equations are estimated and decomposition te...