Research on family-friendly measures at the workplace reveals that these instruments are the outcome of a long history of struggle, mainly by the women’s movement, with antecedents in social and political thought, as well as in social and political policies and practices. These include feminist debates on marriage and the family, on paid and unpaid work, on careers, on state policies regarding ...

Are Skills a Constraint on Firms? New Evidence from Russia The paper uses a unique survey of recruitment firms to look at how Russian firms perceive the supply of skills in the labour market and how well those skills match to their demand for labour. Firms invest significant amounts of time in search to fill vacancies and search time is unambiguously increasing in skills. These skill gaps are a...

In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm level data over the period 1980-2001. We first depict the simultaneous increasing trends in international openness and in demand for skills and we show that the shift of the relative demand for labour was mainly d...

Obstetric fistula, one of the most devastating consequences of prolonged obstructed labour, is a historical issue in the developed world. However, it is still prevalent in resource poor countries like Ethiopia. The objective of this review article is to describe the epidemiology of obstetric fistula and its management, with specific emphasis on the experience of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital...

We use a double-calibrated general equilibrium model to decompose the growth of high-skilled wage premium in UK from 1979 2000 into range potential contributory factors. This structural approach ensures that used is consistent with both price and quantity data simultaneously, allows us investigate wide plausible parameter values. find small observed rise skill net outcome set opposing effects, ...

Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” years saw GDP per capita rise from 60% of the EU average to 120% of the average over the course of the 1990s, with a growth in employment of about 40% over the period 1994-2001. What were the consequences of the boom for returns to education and wage inequality? This paper uses data from the Living in Ireland Survey for 1994, 1997 and 2001 to examine wage inequality, th...

With the labour cost contribution of 30%- 50% to total construction a typical building, is recognized as labour-intensive industry. The extant literature evidenced that there exists scarcity in many trades, which has caused several negative effects. Hence, assessment requirements prior commencement building would help mitigate effects due shortages at organization and project level. This resear...

The paper retrospectively analyses the issue of impact international trade on developed countries’ labour markets in 1990s, when majority academic opinion denied role misfortunes unskilled workers. An analytical framework is proposed which intra-industry explained terms factor endowments and intensities goods. Unlike traditional Heckscher–Ohlin model inter-industry trade, suggested here more co...

Labour market engagement by women is an important determinant of female autonomy that may also affect their demographic behaviour. In order to bring about the conditions for characterized European marriage pattern (in which had a say in decision when and whom they marry), needed earn decent wage. This clearly affected gender wage ratio possibility earning own living having option remaining sing...