The decline of collective bargaining and the blurring of organisational boundaries between firms have adversely affected employment standards in the British labour market. In this context, this paper considers the potential for using socially sustainable sourcing to strengthen collective labour market protections for low-wage workers, particularly in situations where work and production is orga...

This paper investigates whether leaving school in a bad economy deteriorates health in the long run. It focuses on low-educated individuals in England and Wales who entered the labour market immediately after the 1973 oil crisis. Our identification strategy relies on the comparison of individuals who left school at the compulsory age, were born in the same year and had a similar quantity of edu...

Mandatory internships are implemented into higher education curricula in order to ease the labour market integration of graduates. This article evaluates the utility of mandatory internships in Germany by assessing the effect on graduates’ transition from higher education to work. We examine whether these compulsory programs provide extra benefits for graduates from families with lower educatio...

According to a widely held belief, compulsory savings are justified on efficiency grounds because they alleviate the following free rider problem: if the welfare state grants a minimum income to older persons, some of the young may find it optimal not to provide for retirement. The literature argues that compulsory savings can be used in order to overcome this problem. However, potential free r...

We use sequence analysis to compare the different trajectories that individuals take through education system and into work identify characteristics could be used target those who are at most risk of poorer labour market outcomes. As well as age 16 exam performance, we find parental advice, aspirations, attitudes towards HE important predictors pathways work. However, these not strongly determi...

OBJECTIVE It is intended in this brief paper to outline the policy direction that ought to be followed regarding the phenomenon of HIV/AIDS and the workplace. In essence, this is a viewpoint instructed by data and research and not anecdotal evidence. METHODS This is not primary research as it utilizes secondary material from existing literature as well as data from government sources. The met...

Policy makers in the so-called transition countries, as in all countries, face the challenge of improving the performance of their health systems. These countries share a unique historical experience – the period and collapse of communist rule – and all embarked on an unprecedented social, political and economic transition that began at the end of the 1980s. Despite this shared history, differe...

This study uses Nepalese data to estimate the impact of individual, household and cluster/community level variables on child labour and child schooling. The principal estimates are, then, compared with those from Bangladesh and Pakistan. The exercise is designed to identify effective policy instruments that could influence child labour and child schooling in South Asia. The results show that th...