This paper investigates the spatial structure of employment in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA), with reference to the concept of the Southeast Asian extended metropolitan region (EMR). A combination of factor analysis and local Getis-Ord (Gi*) hot-spot analysis is used to identify clusters of employment in the region, including those of the urban and agriculture sectors. Spatial statistical...

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Labor Market outcomes in Bangladesh at different stages of industrialization need not be similar as behavioral rationality of economic agents depends on the market context. This paper examines the issues related to wage income differentials in RMG sector. In fact wage determination behavior during the last two decades did not follow one of the basic premises in the theory of labor market in eco...

Agriculture is the largest sector in most sub-Saharan economies in terms of employment, and it plays an important role in supplying food and export earnings. Rural poverty rates remain high, and labor productivity is strikingly low. This paper asks how these factors shape the role of agriculture in African development strategies. Is agricultural growth a prerequisite for growth in other sectors...

The share of contingent employment has increased significantly in the last two decades. Not much is known about the impact of this shift on disparities in access to health insurance and other benefits. I examined disparities in access to any type of health insurance, employersponsored health insurance and workers’ compensation (WC) benefits between contingent and non-contingent workers in U.S. ...

Most of the world’s economically active children work by their parents’ side, often in a family farm or business. A 2000 UNICEF project surveyed working children in 36 developing countries [1]. The data represent more than 120 million children ages 5 to 14. Although nearly 70 percent of children in these countries spend time in some form of economic activity or domestic chores, less than 3 perc...

The food and agriculture sector is central to efforts to improve public health today and protect and restore natural systems necessary to support good health in the future. The sector has a greater direct impact on land and water resources, employment, and economic activity than any other. And, from a finite resource base, it is underpinning not only food and fiber production but is increasingl...

Although the primary occupation in the villages of India (Assam) is agriculture, its share is very low and there is high degree of under employment in Agriculture. So the village economy is leaning towards small industries, having backward linkages with urban areas. There is a growing trend of migration of people from the rural areas to the urban areas. Therefore, people with enterprising minds...