The analysis of social networks has recently become a central issue in industrial organisation. A growing literature has started to show the importance of social networks in the economy, above all to explain labour mobility and the actual production of innovation. I argue that using such concepts and analytical tools requires a deep understanding of what is meant by knowledge and by the mechani...

The System Dynamics Model ASTRA enables the assessment of long-term impacts of European economic and transport policies with respect to economic, environmental and social effects. It is enhanced to extend the coverage from the current EU member states to the CEEC. ASTRA is characterised by a composition of eight interacting modules with a macro-economics module in its centre. Besides this modul...

Unemployment in South Africa is so widespread that it demands an explanation. This paper examines why the unemployed do not enter the informal sector, as is common in other developing countries. The findings provide little support for the idea that unemployed people choose to be unemployed: the unemployed are substantially worse off, and less satisfied with their quality of life, than they woul...

We propose a simple model of optimal stopping where the economic environment changes as a result of learning. A primary application of our framework is an optimal job search problem when the worker’s labour market opportunities are initially uncertain. We distinguish between two interpretations of the model. In the first, a worker learns about common market conditions, such as the number of pot...

Over the last decades, there has been a steady increase in the use of experimental methods in economics. We discuss the advantages of experiments for labour economics in this paper. Control is the most important asset behind running experiments; no other empirical method allows a similarly tight control as do experiments. Moreover, experiments produce replicable evidence and permit the implemen...

This paper adds a moral angle to a pluralist approach to development economics. Normative assumptions can be found in all the five main schools of thought that have analysed India’s rural labour markets (neoclassical, new institutionalist, Marxist political economy, formalised political economy, and feminist). The theorisations that are used by each have normative overtones. I define overtones ...

Any sophisticated study of labour law mandates an understanding not only the discipline’s legislative content but also historical, social, political, and economic context within which it has evolved, its legislation plays out. Thus, scholars have been receptive to socio-legal methods—going beyond doctrinal legal sources looking other disciplines. Labour scholarship stands out for retaining open...

Farmers need up to date information on efficient use and management of labour for agricultural production. Yet, they lack adequate and needed information. Hence, this study was undertaken to explore the sources and use of labour information by farmers in southwestern Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents for the study. Primary data were collected to elicit infor...

Background: Human labour, bullock power, mechanical water for irrigation, seeds, manures and fertilizers, insecticides pesticides cultivation practices, etc. are the major inputs in farm production costly scarce therefore requires proper allocation utilization. Cheery could be a better alternative to apple it is necessary study resource use efficiency of different size classes by calculating el...