Changes in the mix of goods consumed, and changes in the age mix of the labour force are the two main channels through which population aging is likely to affect labour market flows in Canada. In this paper it is argued that research should focus primarily on the second of these channels, because these effects are likely to be more direct and will occur earlier. Promising research directions in...

BACKGROUND Women's views are critical for informing the planning and delivery of maternity care services. ST segment analysis (STan) is a promising method to more accurately detect when unborn babies are at risk of brain damage or death during labour that is being trialled for the first time in Australia. This is the first study to examine women's views about STan monitoring in this context. ...

A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

This article draws on the ‘double indeterminacy of labour power’, a key conceptual development in process theory, to examine mobility power Saudi Arabia. State control over migrant workers is crucial and wider political-economy However, little known about mobility–effort bargaining specific forms context. argues that not only at core capital–labour relations Arabia, but effort are variably cont...

Globalisation, perhaps paradoxically, implies increased regionalisation: nation states come more and more to resemble regions of the global economy as international factor mobility increases. The present paper presents a new perspective on the modelling of regional economies. The fixed-cost element of public infrastructure is emphasised: this allows both the tax-base effect and congestion to be...

BACKGROUND It is more common for women in both high- and low-income countries giving birth in health facilities, to labour in bed. There is no evidence that this is associated with any advantage for women or babies, although it may be more convenient for staff. Observational studies have suggested that if women lie on their backs during labour this may have adverse effects on uterine contractio...

In this paper, we analyze the interaction between labour market conditions and education demand in a job matching model. Education is modeled as a process of self-discovery: schooling raises a worker’s likelihood of a good match to the job by helping him to find his comparative advantage. It is shown that there is a close relationship between education demand and job mobility.

The paper discusses the interactions between trade unions and migrants in the case of intra-EU migration following the EU enlargement eastwards. Against representations of unions as insiders’ exclusionary organisations, it will point at the rich evidence of cooperation within unions and migrants. In the case of the EU, it is argued, unions have particular incentives to organise migrants rather ...

This article is positioned in the debate regarding the relative importance of labour mobility and informal contacts as mechanisms for knowledge diffusion between organisations. Empirically, the article assesses the importance of different knowledge sources utilised by 219 participants in two high-tech, R&D driven, non-incremental, product development projects in large corporations, located in l...

Due to the lack of political consensus at the previous General Agreement on Trade on Services (GATS), negotiations on the temporary movement of natural persons (Mode 4) have stagnated. However the recent labour shortages in several labour intensive sectors, particularly agriculture, in Australia and New Zealand has recently provoked a serious debate over the implementation of policies that woul...