197 Words) Since all macroeconomic policies are enacted within a certain set of distributive relations and institutional structures, the employment intensity of growth is likely to vary for men and women depending on the nature and context of output growth. The gendered nature of this growthemployment nexus is examined by analyzing the differential impacts that macroeconomic policies and struct...

Increasing rate of unemployment among the graduates of Iranian higher agricultural education system has been developed into one of the major socio-economic problems of the nation. Entrepreneurship is one of the most important factors contributing to economic and social development, that is, it is a main driver for employment creation. As such, many policy initiatives in Iran attempt to pull agr...

Advocates for working children worldwide strive to eradicate the employment that minimizes a child's opportunities for education, good health and future potential. In agriculture, some promising developments in corporate social responsibility may generate partial solutions to child labor problems that have persisted for generations across world regions where food, fiber and fuel are produced. T...

Agriculture, the main sector of the Ethiopian economy, accounts for 85% of total employment and is the backbone and mainstay of the economy (Pausewang et al., 1990). However, agricultural productivity is decreasing because of land degradation, particularly due to soil erosion. Hurni (1988) estimated that the extent of erosion from arable land in the highlands of Ethiopia averaged 42 tons/ha/yr....

We estimate the impact of minimum wage on US farm worker employment by exploiting state-level variation in recent increases. A $1.00 increase decreases likelihood for an individual around one percentage point, with effect concentrated among native and naturalized citizens. However, we find no evidence a relationship between either number workers or guest workers. The difference these results ma...

BACKGROUND Impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia (IAH) is common in adults with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and is a major risk factor for severe hypoglycaemia. Little is known about its effect on employment status. AIMS To examine the effect that IAH has on the employment status or employability of people with T1DM. METHODS A randomly selected cohort of adults of employment age with T1DM...