The aim of this study was to assess the quality of normal delivery care in Côte d'Ivoire. A total of 229 women were included in a cross-sectional study conducted in four urban maternity wards between 2002 and 2003. Observation checklists and exit-interviews were used to examine various dimensions of care. The results showed that the overall quality of care was poor, despite most women giving bi...

Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences – A Survey Why should floors be set under wages and working conditions by labour market regulations? This paper finds that efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained in terms of the choices of the employed semiand unskilled worker group. This group...

BACKGROUND Nigerian parturients desire, but experience unsatisfactory pain relief as labour analgesia is underutilised and unpopular among skilled-birth attendants. OBJECTIVES To assess pregnant women's knowledge and willingness to use non-pharmacological labour pain reliefs. METHODS Using a descriptive cross-sectional design, a pre-tested, structured questionnaire was interviewer administe...

This study examines the skills-differentiated impact of a restrictive female labour migration policy in Sri Lanka using monthly departure data from 2012 to 2018 difference-in-difference model. The has resulted decreasing departures among lower-skilled groups—female domestic, unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled workers—and increasing middle-level professional workers. decrease groups is consist...

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, ...

OBJECTIVES Growing numbers of people are migrating outside their country for work, and many experience precarious conditions, which have been linked to poor physical and mental health. While international dialogue on human trafficking, forced labour and slavery increases, prevalence data of such experiences remain limited. METHODS Men from Dolakha, Nepal, who had ever migrated outside of Nepa...

This study investigates how shocks in economic conditions at entry into the labour market affect wages of low and medium-skilled workers over a large part of their careers. We use detailed German employment data in which we follow a large sample of workers from entry up to 19 years in the labour market. Long-term effects of initial economic conditions on wages are identified using variation in ...

Post-Socialist International Migration: The Case of China-to-South Korea Ethnic Labour Migration This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the postsocialist international migration system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented increase in the arrival of foreign labour. The majority o...

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...