We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has weakened considerably in advanced economies during recent decades. The central estimate is short-run pass-through from cost changes to core decreased 0.25 1980s just 0.02 2010s, while longrun fell 0.36 0.03, with estimates 2010s no longer significant. show timing of collapse co...

The article reveals the nature and economic content of concepts "remuneration", "wages" "employee benefits" from point view various scholars regulations, identifies their main characteristics differences. also states that wages are defined as monetary compensation to an employee for work performed, services rendered in accordance with labour legislation, stipulated employment contract. Methodol...

The most common type of economic incentive used in the field of health and safety is experience rating of insurance premiums. The impact of this incentive on occupational health and safety (OHS) costs in the company was analysed by comparing insurance costs with other OHS costs associated with inadequate working conditions, such as accident costs borne by a company. Accident costs were estimate...

To benefit from trade and trade liberalization, economies have to reallocate factors of production within and between sectors. This structural change is the source of gains from trade but brings with it costs of adjustment. Evidence has, for instance, confirmed that some groups of workers tend to face temporary unemployment and lower income when their jobs are lost as a result of international ...

The objective of this study is to provide some empirical evidences on the existence of labor market adjustments according to smooth adjustment hypothesis (SAH) under the impact of intra-industry trade (IIT) considering the Portuguese case over a time span between 1995 and 2006. The main methodological issue of this study consists in showing that it is preferable to use the GMM-System approach w...

After discussion on a viable intervention strategy, we felt that something ‘cool’ and innovative was called for. Step forward ‘Mr Butt’, a Facebook character based on a fictional 14year-old boy. This champion of quitting smoking is everyone’s pal and can be added as a friend on this vastly popular networking tool. Mr Butt’s group on Facebook, ‘Mr Butt wants everyone to quit smoking’, is a sourc...

A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...