The paper analyses the effect of mother tongue on labor market outcomes of Swiss residents. This type of analysis can shed light on an important policy question. Is the Swiss labor market well integrated, or can one find instead segmentation along language borders? Improving on previous research in this area, we use a nationally representative household survey, the Swiss Household Panel 1999 an...

like other sciences, market segmentation, as a science, seeks to realize unique needs of human being. in health market, individual diagnostic and curative methods are practiced more than anytime. however, a foundation of this market, pharmaceutical market, is not as advanced as other products and services markets in terms of segmentation. regarding the complexity of pharmaceutical market, it is...

China’s recent upsurge in graduate unemployment has aroused increasing attention of the society. This paper reviews a couple of classical theories about graduate employment, including over-education, educational deepening and educated unemployment, labor market segmentation, as well as supply-demand structural imbalance. It also analyzes five influential factors in market demand for graduates, ...

The chapter reviews issues, models and empirical findings relating to labor economics. First, some of the general research questions are taken up in the context of labor demand and supply, which is followed by detailed discussions on rural and urban labor markets. In the rural context the agriculture and the non-farm sectors are analyzed separately. Four important streams of arguments in the co...