The paper explores the determinants of industry location across interwar Poland. After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918. In consequence, its industry faced massive structural changes: the removal of internal tariff barriers and improved infrastructure strengthened the domestic market, while foreign market relations were cut off. S...

This article focuses on high-skilled jobs performed through digital labour platforms (DLPs) in Europe. First, it discusses the main typologies developed recent years to classify DLPs according level of skills required workers. Second, pro-vides an overview available data and attempts measure this growing phenomenon. Third, quality platform com-parison both low-to-medium-skilled offline by self-...

Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We highlight the possibility of higher short-term absence in the presence of HIM because it is more demanding than standar...

Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of th...

This paper addresses the particular question of the impact of this “new” digital environment on the labour market. It will investigate in particular how ICT has changed and is changing the labour market and the “old”, classical insights into the relationship between technology, employment and skills. We start in Section 2 with a review of the literature on technology and employment. In p reviou...

BACKGROUND As a result of prolonged survival, more patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) participate in the labour force. The aim of this study was to evaluate their education, occupation levels and risk factors for work disability. METHOD 207 patients answered a self-administered questionnaire about their educational level and work status. Independently, medical records were reviewed for illnes...

Background In Ethiopia, majority (62%) of pregnant women attend antenatal care at least once, yet only 26% deliver with skilled birth attendants in the available health units. Thus, this study explored beliefs and behaviors related to labour and skilled attendance among the women, their perspectives on health care providers, and traditional birth attendants. Methods Sixteen key informant inte...

This paper examines the macroeconomic and structural constraints to scaling up aid fl ows to developing countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals in 2015, including infrastructure, competitiveness and the real exchange rate, labour markets, fi scal constraints, governance, and aid volatility and fragmentation. The impact of these constraints on cost-effi cient sequencing and compositio...

Introduction: Caesarean section is one of the commonest surgical procedures worldwide. Its upward trend and associated morbidity/mortality especially in low-resource setting makes regular appraisal of the practice necessary. Methodology: A retrospective study. Labour ward logbook and case records were looked into, and all information extracted. Results: Caesarean section rate was 35.5%, with an...

This paper critically examines the trade and technology theories which dominate the large and growing literature on the determinants of changes in income inequality in advanced industrial countries during the 1980s and 1990s. Both theories, despite their rather different approaches to the subject are shown to have a common premise: advanced countries have experienced a fall in the relative dema...