We apply the comparative techniques originated by Wolpin, K.I. (1977, Education and screening, American Economic Review, 67, 949–958) and Psacharopoulos (1979, On the weak versus the strong version of the screening hypothesis, Economics Letters, 4, 181–185) to discriminate between the ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ screening hypotheses. Controlling for sample selection, we find evidence for weak but not s...

We discuss superstatistics theory of labour productivity. Productivity distribution across workers, firms and industrial sectors are studied empirically and found to obey powerdistributions, in sharp contrast to the equilibrium theories of mainstream economics. The Pareto index is found to decrease with the level of aggregation, i.e., from workers to firms and to industrial sectors. In order to...

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more likely to enter HIM jobs. The wage premium falls substantially having accounted for employees’ work h...

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...

Beveridge's wartime proposals to eliminate idleness relied on the precepts of Keynesian economics and substantial extensions in powers central government regulate industry labour. Using convention theory, this paper demonstrates how these stipulations proved politically untenable. With disappearance full employment 1980s, labour market problems Beveridge encountered his youth have re-emerged ac...

The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to David Card “for his empirical contributions labour economics”, and Joshua Angrist Guido Imbens their methodological the analysis causal relationships”. Lennart B. Ackermans reflects on Card, Angrist, Imben's work.

Abstract This chapter will focus on labour migration , that is the movement of persons with aim employment or income-bringing activities (e.g., entrepreneurship), developing topic which was also touched upon in Chap. 3 conceptual understanding drivers. Research has developed across various disciplines sociology, anthropology, and geography), but most prominently economics. It resulted a range t...

Sebastian Butschek† and Jan Sauermann‡ †Sebastian Butschek is post-doctoral researcher at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck. E-mail: sebastian.butschek{at}uibk.ac.at ‡Jan Sauermann associate professor the Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market Education Policy (IFAU). He also affiliated with Labor Economics (IZA) UCLS Uppsala University

The economics of sheep-farming and its economic efficiency have been reported using field level data collected from the semi-arid regions of Rajasthan in 2005. The net return per average flock of 54 has been found Rs 25000 per year. The sheep-farming activity attracts labour employment of 581 mandays per annum, more than three-fourths of which is engaged in grazing. The female labour has been f...