Evidence is presented for the UK, the US and France that the pace of change in the structure of employment by occupation has not been accelerating. Changes in the occupational structure of employment are taken to proxy changes in the net demand for labour by skill level. Efforts are made to make the data for these three countries comparable, reflecting the problem that data published by the ILO...

This dissertation consists of four essays that contribute to the literature on international trade and labour markets. The first essay studies the interaction between economic integration, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand in a model of international oligopoly. As trade barriers are dismantled foreign competition intensifies. Competing enterprises respond by investing mo...

Inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) has often been considered to play a prominent role in the development of human capital host economy by introducing wage premium into labour market. However, extant evidence on IFDI market effects is inconclusive, especially emerging economies. We investigate for case Mexico whether premia have an effect educational outcomes young cohorts that were 15 year...

This study examines the skills-differentiated impact of a restrictive female labour migration policy in Sri Lanka using monthly departure data from 2012 to 2018 difference-in-difference model. The has resulted decreasing departures among lower-skilled groups—female domestic, unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled workers—and increasing middle-level professional workers. decrease groups is consist...

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 paper explores the implications on trade and wage inequality of introducing financial capital or credit in standard Ricardian model production, where a given amount start-up is used to employ sector specific skilled unskilled workers following Wage Fund approach classical economists. Thus, we have Specific Factor (SF) structure Jones (1971) new (NRM) with two types labour. With an entirely...

In this issue, we have brought together articles focusing on Indian and South Asian migration experiences patterns. India has been a major player in international migration, including remittances flows, but also scene of internal migrations. This is to an extent perhaps expected as the second largest population world residing across vast geography rich with ethnic, religious linguistic diversit...