BACKGROUND Skilled birth attendance from a trained health professional during labour and delivery can prevent up to 75% of maternal deaths. However, in low- and middle-income rural communities, lack of basic medical infrastructure and limited number of skilled birth attendants are significant barriers to timely obstetric care. Through analysis of self-reported data, this study aimed to assess t...

Abstract We use a unique source from the Swedish royal demesnes to examine work and relative wages of women in sixteenth‐century Sweden, an economic laggard early modern period. The pertains workers hired on yearly contracts, type more representative historical labour markets than day large construction sites, this allows us observe directly food consumed by workers. speak debate ‘little diverg...

We study the e¤ects of additional distortions or shocks, such as a fair-wage constraint and/or the possibility of o¤shoring unskilled jobs, in a two-factor general equilibrium model of unemployment with search frictions. While the direct point of impact of such shocks is on unskilled workers, we also …nd interesting indirect spillover e¤ects on skilled workers. A binding fair-wage constraint in...

This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalisation and technological upgrading in affecting employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers in a middle income developing country. It exploits a unique longitudinal firm‐level database that covers all manufacturing firms in Turkey over the 1992‐2001 period. Turkey is taken as an example of a developing economy that, in tha...

In this contribution, we present an endogenous growth model which essentially extends the idea of the paper by Murphy, Riddell and Romer (1998). In that paper, the authors assume that technical progress leads to wage differentials between high-skilled workers and unskilled workers. As technical progress occurs, the relative marginal productivity of different input changes. Yet, if there is suff...

BACKGROUND The social gradient in disability pension is well recognized, however mechanisms accounting for the gradient are largely unknown. The aim of this study was to examine the association between occupational class and subsequent disability pension among middle-aged men and women, and to what extent work-related factors accounted for the association. METHODS A subsample (N = 7031) of th...

Unskilled female labourer (buruh gendong) is a manifestation of Javanese workers disrupting the inferiority boundary. They lift heavy goods in market to help providing livelihood for their family. This research aimed analyze how unskilled labourers defend existence as women who are able fullfil double burden way provide financial also analyzed they view women's roles. was field study using qual...

Worldwide, there are an estimated 244 million international migrants (UN DESA, 2016), with 175 million of these originating from developing regions. People migrate for a number of reasons, with the most cited being access to jobs. The International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) decent work agenda aims to ensure dignity, equality, fair income and safe working conditions, with specific mention of...