The diffusion of knowledge throughout the learning economy is of crucial relevance to economic prosperity and growth. But, as this paper attempts to show, the promotion of flexible labour market policy has to be treated with some caution. Even though it appears that one major way of diffusing knowledge throughout the economy is to promote labour mobility between firms, empirical evidence concer...

Notwithstanding its admission to the EU, agricultural restructuring and sustainable rural development remain as major transition challenges confronting Poland. Achieving these joint goals will necessitate major labour flows from farming into other occupations and sectors. This paper employs a multinomial logit model on Labour Force Survey data to analyse mobility in the agricultural labour mark...

We develop an urban equilibrium job search model with employed and unemployed individuals where residential mobility of the unemployed is restricted. We assume a standard mono-centric model (firms are located in one location), but allow for imperfect labour markets. In contrast to models with perfect labour markets, the model predicts that the employed are only partially compensated for commuti...

This study examines diverse forms of value that migrant workers create through their employment in hospitality. The paper draws on insights from valuation studies and research migrants' transnational resources to consider the experiences Kenyans who worked hospitality sector while abroad. introduces notion ‘indefinite capacities’ conceptualise amorphous nature skills, capabilities may be develo...

In flexible labour markets the individual employment prospects over the life cycle increasingly depend on the readiness to be mobile and to undertake occupational changes as well as life-long learning. However, continuous adaptation to changing demands on the labour market holds the risk of discontinuities in employment biographies which can have a negative impact on old-age incomes. From a soc...