Abstract This chapter will focus on labour migration , that is the movement of persons with aim employment or income-bringing activities (e.g., entrepreneurship), developing topic which was also touched upon in Chap. 3 conceptual understanding drivers. Research has developed across various disciplines sociology, anthropology, and geography), but most prominently economics. It resulted a range t...

Maternal mortality ratio averages 230 per 100,000 live births in developing countries. Obstructed labour, which is a major cause results from prolonged, neglected labour. The partograph as recommended by the World Health Organization is a graphical tool used to monitor the progress of the first stage of labour, thereby preventing prolonged labour. The partograph has been in use in Ghana since 1...

The introductory chapter, written by Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx, opens with a generally accepted proposition that European labour markets are undergoing a process of deep transformation characterised by deindustrialization and the growth of non-standard work. This premise is further supported and elaborated through specific insights which establish the general framework for this book. For i...

This paper provides evidence on the effects of digitalisation labour market in Slovenia using a unique dataset Slovenian workers and firms for years 2016 to 2020. Results show that at firm level, – measured terms ICT investment, is associated with positive statistically significant employment. However, job growth not evenly distributed: High-skilled younger benefit most from employment gains, w...

Drawing on Gernot Grabher’s work on projects and project ecologies, there has developed a significant literature concerned with project-based organisations, recognising the fluid, transient, skills-based and localised nature of such forms. Yet, despite the inherent need within projects to draw on highly-skilled labour, such literature has tended to overlook the importance of freelance, mobile l...

We relate the technological and factor price determinants of inward and outward FDI to its potential productivity and labour market effects on both host and home economies. This allows us to distinguish clearly between technology sourcing and technology exploiting FDI, and to identify FDI which is linked to labour cost differentials. We then empirically examine the effects of different types of...

Due to the lack of political consensus at the previous General Agreement on Trade on Services (GATS), negotiations on the temporary movement of natural persons (Mode 4) have stagnated. However the recent labour shortages in several labour intensive sectors, particularly agriculture, in Australia and New Zealand has recently provoked a serious debate over the implementation of policies that woul...

The role of health in economic development is tested using three empirical approaches: a direct labour productivity effect, an interactive effect, and an incentive effect. Using proxies for health such as access to sanitation facility, clean water, immunisation, and adult male mortality, higher levels of health are hypothesised to promote higher economic growth as healthier workers are more pro...