This paper analyses how spouses in older couples react to ‘shocks’ or ‘surprises’ in their partner’s labour income using data from the British Household Panel Survey, 1991–2004. Wives’ labour supply proves to be much more sensitive to shocks than husbands’. After a divorce or separation, wives reduce their labour supply while the effect on husbands’ labour supply is positive or not statisticall...

Objective: This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on employment situation parents and in turn subjective financial well-being families with children Austria.
 Background: The had strong repercussions Austrian labour market. short-time work (STW) programme covered a third employees first half 2020 helped to maintain levels. We provide evidence how an unprecedented market cr...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to understand the strategies employed by families that adopt Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-orphaned children (Adoptive families) for coping with and mitigating the impact of AIDS in Mbeya Rural District, Tanzania. High numbers of AIDS-orphaned children aged below 18 years in Mbeya Region have led to increasing the burden of families caring f...

Abstract The largest “multinational” employers ( avant la letter ) were European India companies and colonial armies. Between the seventeenth twentieth centuries, they recruited millions of mercenaries soldiers from all over Europe, mostly lower social classes. Beginning in nineteenth century, offered certain welfare-state services to these men their legitimate illegitimate families Europe colo...

Globalisation is a phenomenon that cannot be avoided. As globalisation allowed free flow of inputs including labour, it may affect job opportunities for the locals. Therefore, investigate the determinants of labour supply is essential in understanding the structure of labour market in the new era of globalization. The objective of this article is to examine labour supply by taking into account ...

BACKGROUND No published quantitative instrument exists to measure maternal satisfaction with the quality of different models of labour care in the UK. METHODS A quantitative psychometric multidimensional maternal satisfaction questionnaire, the Women's Views of Birth Labour Satisfaction Questionnaire (WOMBLSQ), was developed using principal components analysis with varimax rotation of success...

T debate surrounding the nature of “Europeanisation” has been raging in the EU for a number of years. It raises a variety of issues regarding the impact of the EU and its effects on the domestic politics and institutions of member states. In terms of labour law, the EU has, over the years, attempted to Europeanise national labour law systems directly and indirectly by introducing measures under...

This study examined the effects of agricultural child labour on children’s perception of farming occupation in Delta State, Nigeria. A total of 336 respondents comprising of 112 farming household heads and 224 children in the selected households were used for the study.Farming activities of the children were highest during weekends. Highest level of participation was recorded in herbicide and p...