Contract farming has gained in importance many developing countries. Previous studies analysed effects of contracts on smallholder farmers’ welfare, yet mostly without considering that different types contractual relationships exist. Here, we examine associations between contract and farm household income the oil palm sector Ghana, explicitly differentiating two contracts, namely simple marketi...

The work provides the contributions of an empirical study recently carried out by University Valencia (Spain) in collaboration with Generalitat Valenciana (Regional Government). is mainly based on a qualitative methodology using in-depth interviews open to experts field (specifically 13) and presentations renowned speakers at 12th Economy Week Alzira (Valencia), which content analysis was appli...

This article draws on the ‘double indeterminacy of labour power’, a key conceptual development in process theory, to examine mobility power Saudi Arabia. State control over migrant workers is crucial and wider political-economy However, little known about mobility–effort bargaining specific forms context. argues that not only at core capital–labour relations Arabia, but effort are variably cont...

A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

The empirical retirement literature measures individual responses to variation in income flows due to public transfers, private individual or employer-provided pensions. The novelty of this paper is to provide a decomposition the incentive effects from these three sources. It is the first time that the effects of pay policies of different employers on retirement outcomes is explicitly modelled ...

The objective of this paper is to study equilibrium in a labour market with search frictions à la Burdett and Mortensen (1998). Identical firms post wage-contracts and ex-ante identical workers search for a job while unemployed and for a better one while employed. Although this situation has been analysed before, Stevens (2004) and Burdett and Coles (2003), the main novelty of this paper is to ...

In recent times, there has been an exponential growth in digitization of legal documents such as case records, contracts, terms of services, regulations, privacy documents and compliance guidelines. Courts have been digitizing their archived cases and also making it available for e-discovery. On the other hand, businesses are now maintaining large data sets of legal contracts that they have sig...