Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation ...

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...

This paper examines the composition of families in parish São José de Encoge, northern Angola, early colonial era, using a series ‘family bulletins’ collected by Portuguese government 1910. Encoge was one earliest centres coffee cultivation west-central Africa. While not all local participated this economy, census sheds light on family-based cash-crop production after abolition slavery Angola. ...

BACKGROUND Medico-technical intervention rates in labour, such as induction and augmentation of labour, are rising worldwide. Such interventions have adverse as well as beneficial consequences, so any intervention introduced must be based on evidence and result in more good than harm, otherwise it is just interference. AIM To describe three common medico-technical interventions in normal preg...

We studied the effect of family control on the characteristics of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises located in the Northern Italian province of Bergamo. The analysis included aspects such as demographic characteristics, cost and productivity of labour, financial ratios, and the performance of 745 SMEs. Family‐ controlled firms emerged as a predominant organiza...

BACKGROUND Health care discourse is replete with references to building partnerships between formal and informal care systems of support, particularly in community and home based health care. Little work has been done to examine the relationship between home health care workers and family caregivers of older clients. The purpose of this study is to examine home support workers' (HSWs) perceptio...

The employment rates of both disabled people and those from minority ethnic groups are subject to substantial UK policy attention. In this paper we set out to enhance understanding of the relationship with the labour market for those living with longterm illness and their family members. We explore the role of family caring responsibilities and ethnicity in shaping patterns of employment partic...

Child Labour, the global phenomenon is still existing in India due to lack of proper execution programme and policies. Poverty, parental guidance, awareness about programs influence peer groups were key countless reasons, which create a barrier an individual as well societal development. Global information shows that boys more indulged labour market, however, trends have been changed now compar...