The article analyses international legal acts that regulate the labour relations of certain categories workers, as well related problems. Their distinctive feature is age a person has reached at time entering into such relationship. peculiarities regulation are determined; its characteristic features specified. Due to fact one facts affect status employee, an attempt made distinguish between gr...

An analysis of the peculiarities labour relations legal regulation under martial law is presented. There were considered and analysed certain aspects newly adopted laws on organization optimization conditions special regime, latest changes to Labour Code Ukraine other in field that regulate issues remuneration, suspension, termination realities war. The practical implementation through prism ju...

Abstract The Great Depression (1929–1939) can be seen as an international turning point in labour regulation the colonies of European imperial powers Sub-Sahara Africa. context essentially marked beginning end era post-slavery “market-making”, witnessing move away from forced labour, first steps towards protection employees and changes form, length, administrative penal framing individual relat...

Proposals for the reform of labour legislation have been central to the reform agenda of international financial institutions, most particularly the World Bank, and have been pressed particularly on the governments of countries which formerly have had socialist or social democratic forms of labour market regulation. This reform agenda is based on a neo-liberal conception of the labour market, a...

This paper develops a model of intellectual labor augmentation to explain both the marriage wage premium and educational assortative mating. We suggest that husbands and wives are complementary factors of production where a spouse’s education and skills augment their partner’s productivity and earnings potential. We test this proposition using data from the 2000 U.S. Census of Population and th...

BACKGROUND A variety of international organizations, professional groups and individuals are promoting evidence-informed obstetric care in China. We measured change in obstetric practice during vaginal delivery that could be attributed to the diffusion of evidence-based messages, and explored influences on practice change. METHODS Sample surveys of women at postnatal discharge in three govern...

At the turn of the century European higher education policy became twin-track. The Bologna Process was launched and ran alongside developments in European legislation. Both tracks displayed a preoccupation with competences, in relation both to citizenship and to labour market needs. Scrutiny of important policy texts (Key Competences, the European Qualifications Framework, ECTS, the Bologna thr...

A large literature has focused on labour market institutions as a reason for slow growth in Europe. How important have product market regulations been? Recent work has shown that less regulation encourages investment, increases employment and leads to faster productivity growth. Empirical work at the firm level, within individual countries, suggests that the impact may differ in important ways ...