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Sickness absences among young mothers and the child penalty in employment
While a growing literature documents the negative impact of motherhood on women’s career trajectories, the specific mechanisms behind their...
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Demographic impacts of China’s trade liberalization: marriage, spousal quality, and fertility
This study examines the effects of export tariff liberalization on women’s marriage and fertility choices in China. Utilizing a shift-share design...
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COVID-19 Led Return to Kerala: A Comparative Analysis of Return Emigrants
This article concerns emigrants who returned to Kerala between May and December 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study and document the...
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Multidimensional Assessment of the Labour Market in the Regions of the Russian Federation
Although labour markets show resilience, they still experience a decrease in labour productivity and, consequently, the level of socioeconomic...
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COVID-19 and Wages and Salaries Dynamics in Malaysia: A Blessing in Disguise?
Predictors of wages and salaries (earnings) are investigated to track the impact of COVID-19 on wages and salaries dynamics in Malaysia for 2019 and...
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Market Distortions and Welfare in Develo** Countries: A Search for Critical Levels of Reforms
This work theoretically finds out the welfare implications of different reformatory policies in a small open develo** economy using a 2 × 2...
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India’s Missing Female Youth Labour Force: Size, Characteristics and Policy Concern
In the 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) convened in October 2023, an amendment to the 19th ICLS resolution of 2013 on...
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The Role of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows on Labour Force Participation Rate of Women: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
To empirically test the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on female labour force participation rate, we developed two hypotheses in the...
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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?
Existing literature shows that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing under the extreme assumption that, above the subsistence level, no amount...
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Academic or vocational education? A comparison of the long-term wage development of academic and vocational tertiary degree holders
Education is a key determinant of wage development. The relationship between education and wages is particularly strong in countries with...
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Analysing Livelihood Strategies of Landless Manual Labour Households in Rural Bihar: A Study of a North Bihar Village
The paper studies the livelihood strategies of Landless Manual Labour (LML) households of a village named Katkuian, located in the West Champaran...
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Government shutdown and SNAP disbursements: effects on household expenditures
We test the ability of SNAP eligible households to respond to a temporary change in benefit timing. We exploit the 2018–2019 US government shutdown...
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The Factors that Influence the Turnover Intentions in Develo** Countries
Employee turnover is one of the most studied phenomena, and numerous models have been presented from time to time to help clarify it. This study aims...
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What Determines the Dichotomy between Formal and Informal Employment: Evidence from Maharashtra, India
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the emerging dynamics of formal and informal employment in the context of Maharashtra. Using the...
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Cultural assimilation and segregation in heterogeneous societies
I propose a model of cultural assimilation with endogenous social networks and idiosyncratic assimilation patterns that is consistent with the...
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the academic achievement of elementary and junior high school students: analysis using administrative data from Amagasaki City
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a global impact on children’s education. In Amagasaki City, Japan, elementary and junior...
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Teen social interactions and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic
Adolescence is an important developmental period when teens begin spending less time with their parents and more time with friends and others outside...
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Maternal education and child survival: causal evidence from Kenya
This study leverages the educational reform of 1985 as a source of exogenous variation in female education, providing insights into the effect of...
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Preference for sons: still a trend? Evidence from individual-level data from Finland, 1960–2015
Preference for sons has been shown in various ways, but is it still up to date? I investigate how sex preference has evolved during the past 50 years...
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The mother-in-law effect: Heterogeneous impacts of counseling on family planning take-up in Jordan
How does the presence of a woman’s mother-in-law impact the effectiveness of a family planning program? Using data from an experiment that randomly...
