Introduction My research is dedicated to understand the role of information in managing emerging operations problem, particularly in the domains of socially responsible management and service operations. In the first chapter I study how to combat child labor in global supply chains, specifically investigating how supply chain transparency influences the fight against child labor. There are near...

Female labor market activity is dependent on the presence and the age of a child, but how do the determinants develop in magnitude and significance with the child’s age? Using German SOEP data from 1991 to 2006 for mothers with young children, the change in maternal labor supply when the child is one, two, and three years old is explicitly addressed. According to the detailed descriptive analys...