Labour markets in Sub-Saharan Africa are characterised by a gendered division into formal and informal segments. The article argues that this originates from rationality introduced racist colonial legal segmentation produced variety of regimes beyond employment law. market postcolonial settings can hardly be understood nor overcome without analysis the specific institutional origins commodifica...

Division of labour is the cornerstone of successful societies. A new study has shown that individual experience can produce long-lasting task specialisation in ants. This asks for a reappraisal of the role of individual learning in insect societies.

Fertility levels have fallen drastically in most industrialized countries. Diverse theoretical and empirical frameworks have had difficulty explaining these unprecedented low levels of fertility. More recently, however, attention has turned from classic explanations, such as women’s increased labour market participation, to gender equity as the essential link to understand this phenomenon. Incr...