Article history: Received 16 December 2007 Revised 2 August 2008 Available online 14 August 2008 The spatial mismatch hypothesis posits that employment decentralization isolated urban blacks from work opportunities. This paper focuses on one large employer that has remained in the central city over the twentieth century—the U.S. Postal Service. We find that blacks substitute towards postal work...

Informal Sector Is The Largest Employer Of Relatively Unskilled Workers When Skill Based Tecnological Changes In Production Of Manufactured Commodities And Services Have Always Fascilitated Income And Employment Growth For The Highly Skilled.Due To Globalisation The Scenario Among Women Has Been Changing As The Formal Sector Is Shrinking And Unable To Provide Employment Opportunities To Growing...

This article joins the debate over the effect of market-driven economic development on women’s work opportunities and household gender inequalities. It assesses women’s opportunities for off-farm employment, the relative contributions of female off-farm workers to household income, and the distribution of power in families whose male members have left for off-farm jobs, leaving women behind in ...