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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"labour supply"”.
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Essay on labour supply in transition economies.
… fi nds positive and modest wage elasticities of labour supply in all the countries reviewed. This finding is consistent with stylized fact that those countries which inherited high labor force participation rates are relatively insensitive to changes in the wage rates. Apart from wages such …
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Remittances, Consumption Insurance and Family Labour Supply
… standard model that incorporates households' labour supply and consumption decisions, and derived analytical expressions for consumption and earnings as a function of wage and remittance income shocks. These expressions are empirically estimated to explore whether the presence of remittances …
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Essays on Labour Supply, Retirement, and Consumption
… is a study of the individual level behaviour of labour supply, retirement, and consumption in different contexts. The first chapter studies the importance of intrafamily supports in elderly people's work and retirement choice. I build a dynamic programming model with extended families consisted …
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Doctors' labour supply and incentives : a collection of essays
This thesis examines UK doctors’ labour supply from the intensive margin. Initially, it explores trends in average weekly hours of work using data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Next, it compares how average weekly hours of work vary over the lifecycle for doctors and compare to with other …
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Labour supply problems and solutions: econometric model for the State of Bahrain
… the skills needed to compete effectively in the labour market. Indeed, the picture is hardly encouraging for future generations, and cries out for fundamental changes. Bahrain has poured investments into projects aimed at reaping the benefits of its relative advantages, into exploring and …
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Mothers' childcare and labour supply choices: an empirical, comparative analysis between Brazil and United Kingdom
… between childcare provision and mothers' labour supply decisions is not fully comprehended by researchers and policymakers yet. The quite consensual importance is commonly followed by non-conclusive empirical evidences, generating doubts about the actual effectiveness of childcare policies …
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The impact of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) on perceived health and labour supply in Khayelitsha
Includes bibliographical references.
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An analysis of labour supply and productivity in the oil palm industry : a case study of the Cape Hoskins Settlement Scheme, Papua New Guinea
… analysis is made of data from a comprehensive labour availability and utilisation study of a sample of 23 settlers^ from Kapore, the first sub-division established in Hoskins. The objectives of the study are: (i)to examine the settlers actual labour utilisation patterns; (ii) to test the …
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An analysis of labour supply and productivity in the oil palm industry : a case study of the Cape Hoskins Settlement Scheme, Papua New Guinea
… analysis is made of data from a comprehensive labour availability and utilisation study of a sample of 23 settlers^ from Kapore, the first sub-division established in Hoskins. The objectives of the study are: (i)to examine the settlers actual labour utilisation patterns; (ii) to test the …
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South African unemployment : a supply side analysis of the labour market
… unemployment approaches the problem from the supply side of the labour market. A descriptive analysis of South African unemployment is made first of all, using data from the 1995 October Household Survey. This is followed by a discussion of various important elements of the South African …
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State pension and labour market dynamics in South Africa
… in a household could have a strong effect on labour market outcomes. This paper investigates the effects of access to pension income on labour supply and employment probability, The large negative elasticity of labour supply to pension income found in Bertrand, Mullainathan and Miller (2003) …
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Work in South Africa: Analysis of Workdays, Hours, Schedules and the Timing of Work
The concepts of labour supply and work are ultimately about the time people spend doing labour activities. In most developed countries, the rise of the 24-hour and gig economies has altered work structures by replacing traditional nine-to-five jobs and allowing for more flexible working hours …
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Female labour market adjustment processes in the UK coalfields.
… focuses on the processes occurring in the female labour markets of coalfield areas in Great Britain. During the 1980s and 1990s these areas experienced a major loss of male employment as a result of the decline of the coal industry. The research looks at how female employment in these areas was …
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The role of production subsidies in general equilibrium macroeconomic models with imperfect competition
… is first carried out in an economy where labour supply is assumed to be exogenous and perfectly inelastic. This serves to provide a simple and clear exposition on the effects of a subsidy provision and to serve as a benchmark analysis to build upon. This is subsequently extended by …
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Monopsony and Measurement Error in the South African Labour Market
… monopsony power is present in the South African labour market by estimating the wage elasticity of labour supply to the firm, following Manning's (2003) method. I also consider the extent to which the method of identifying jobto-job separations and the use of poorly imputed earnings data by …
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The added worker effect in South Africa
The theory that married women’s labour supply increases in response to their partners job loss is known as the added worker effect (addWE). This paper investigates how married women’s labour force participation, probability of employment and average working hours respond to the recently …
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Work allocation behaviour in rural Philippines: a bounded rationality model
… profile of the rural workers; estimate a labour supply function; and assess the likelihood of access to gainful rural employment.
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Civil conflict and international migration in Nepal
… education and human capital investments, labour supply, and local economic activity. While a few prior studies look at the effects of Nepal’s conflict on emigration, many key features of the conflict are ignored. In particular, heterogeneity due to the highly localized nature of the …
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