Labor markets in all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economies are under stress. Two main factors generate the pressure, although the precise contributions of these factors to unemployment and wage growth remain to be determined. The first factor is an apparent shift in the bias of technology toward skilled-labor-intensive methods of production. The second factor is...

Towards the middle of 1943 the problem of supplying workers to replace the labour turn-over in a large Royal Ordnance Filling Factory became more acute through the transfer of a large number of the younger male and female workers to the forces and to other industries. Local recruitment on a large scale was necessary and in the fourth year of total war unemployed persons in an industrial area we...

Has skilled immigration into the UK led to a reduction in training of native-born workers? To address this concern, paper describes theoretical model where can affect workers both positively and negatively, its effects may differ according characteristics migrant firm's sector. It then investigates issue empirically using Labour Force Survey data from 1995 2018. At aggregate level, there is sma...

Abstract For more than a decade actors in Europe, North America and Australasia have been warning of crises with horticultural skills, highlighting shortages specialists, educational programmes traineeships. Related warnings predict worsening skilled workers essential for production crops. Analysis recent strategies from the UK finds these problems poorly defined characterised, without articula...

This paper studies the effects of a one-child policy. A benchmark without the fertility constraint is compared to a counterfactual experiment with the fertility constraint in place. The results suggest that imposition of a one-child policy promotes the accumulation of human capital and increases per capita output. In partial equilibrium, an unskilled adult’s welfare is lowered by the policy. Ho...

BACKGROUND Vesicovaginal fistula is a preventable calamity, which has been an age-long menace in developing countries. OBJECTIVE To review the causes, complications, and outcome of Vesicovaginal fistula in Nigeria. METHODS Studies on Vesicovaginal fistula were searched on the internet. Information was obtained on PubMed(medline), WHO website, Bioline International, African Journal of Line, ...

Cambodia faces major challenges in its effort to provide access to health care for all. Although there is a sharp improvement in health and health care in Cambodia, 6 in 10 women still deliver at home assisted by unskilled birth attendants. This practice is associated with higher maternal and infant deaths. This article analyzes the 2005 Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey data to examine th...

This paper studies the effects of a one-child policy. A benchmark without the fertility constraint is compared to a counterfactual experiment with the fertility constraint in place. The results suggest that imposing the one-child policy promotes the accumulation of human capital and increases output per capita. In partial equilibrium, an unskilled adult’s welfare is lowered by the policy. Howev...