The aim of the present study was to investigate whether placental and fetal membrane AdM (adrenomedullin) mRNA expression changes with gestation and human labour, as we have previously found labour-associated changes in AdM content in fetal membranes [Al-Ghafra, Gude, Brennecke and King (2003) Clin. Sci. 105, 419-423]. Placentas and fetal membranes were collected either at term or pre-term from...

Regarding changes in French and British labour market as in their educational system since the Eighties, one may address the evolution of their labour market segmentation. Is the predominance of Internal Labour Market in France and Occupational Labour Market in Great Britain (Eyraud, Marsden, Silvestre,1990) still relevant ? We propose a more complex segmentation of labour market with four segm...

This paper reviews the recent work by Australian labour lawyers that has embraced the ‘new regulation’ and in particular the idea of law as regulation. This approach has recast the academic study of labour law as being concerned with regulation of the labour market. While much of this work has concentrated on expanding the field of labour law to include many areas of law affecting the labour ma...

In most OECD-countries, labour demand has shifted from unskilled to skilled over time. Many analyses of this phenomenon focus either on technical change, capital-skill complementarity or mutual labour substitution. Applying a more general approach enables us to explore the relative importance of different factors behind the shift in labour demand in Norwegian manufacturing. A multivariate error...

This paper presents annual indices of labour input adjusted for the age, education and gender distributions of the Irish workforce for the period 1999-2008. Growth in labour services is divided between the increase in hours and improvement in the productive quality of these hours. Improvement in labour quality, as proxied by education, age and gender, has added on average 0.7 percentage points ...

Child labour is a global phenomenon occurring predominantly in countries with lower socioeconomic status and resources. Societal familial poverty, loss or incapacitation/illness of parents, lack social security protection, ignorance about the value of, limited access to, education are among myriad reasons for involvement children workforce. barrier to development individual their society econom...

Labour induction and augmentation with Prostaglandin and Oxytocin are well established as standard practice worldwide. They are safe when used judiciously, but may be associated with maternal and neonatal morbidities. Other safer alternatives have been studied including dates consumption during late pregnancy with various outcomes. The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to investigate ...

Policing is a high-risk occupation that can cause myriad of psychosocial problems to its workers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, officers have experienced increased rates anxiety around contracting virus, and these fears been mirrored by their families, due largely unknown nature virus mounting reports police deaths across world. Using data from 18 officer interviews range roles forces in early ...

TMs study inquired into the meaning of family-professional partnerships from the perspective offapanese families of children with disabilities. Data were collected from 30 mothers who participated in focus groups and/or interviews infapan. Qualitative data analysis guided identification of four themes. The study's contributions are discussed in relation to not only fapanese society, but also to...

This paper primarily investigates the issue of labour welfare in Indian industries, and seeks to make a contribution to the debate on labour reforms currently underway in India. It investigates the relative importance of technical change, elasticities of substitution, and labour regulations for labour welfare, proxied by the income shares of skilled and unskilled labour in total costs. Three pr...