Labour Market

Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms. Because these labourers exist as parts of a social, institutional, or political system, labour economics is often regarded as a sociology or political science.Labour markets or job markets function through the interaction of workers and employers. Labour economics looks at the suppliers of labour services (workers) and the demanders of labour services (employers), and attempts to understand the resulting pattern of wages, employment, and income. These patterns …

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World Bank Group · 6 May 2024 English

spent on food is, on average, three times higher among the poor than the better off.3 The job market has recovered, but labor market indicators have not yet fully reached pre-pandemic levels.


GFI: Green Finance Institute · 24 April 2024 English

The objective of this project was to assess the materiality of nature-related risks to the UK financial sector both in the near-term and the longer-term. At least half of global …

range of sectors. These include changes in labour market dynamics and productivity, challenges in livestock


CASP: Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention · 23 April 2024 English

9-8-8 requires co-operation and partnership between many stakeholders and rightsholders across all Provinces and Territories in Canada, and the existing crisis and distress sector, as well as meaningful involvement of …

she has dedicated her work in student affairs to facilitating the integration of international students into the Canadian labor market and culture, ensuring newcomers receive the support they need to settle, integrate, and thrive.


WIL: World Inequality Lab · 22 April 2024 English

We find that the different inequality levels in Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria in the first half of the 20th century were the result of a more “developed” social structure in the …

of forces driving inequality, in particular, its sole focus on the impact of a sectoral reallocation of workers on the labor market outcomes. Wage inequality declined primarily because of comprehensive institutional reforms of the labor market and pronouncedly egalitarian in the literature – as male and female workers/employees have generally been engaged as independent individuals in the labor market.


ActionAid Association (India) · 21 April 2024 English

Definition of Construction Workers The definition of construction workers in the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996 should be amended and expanded in line with supply and value chains …

advocate for disabled workers’ inclusion in labour market policies. Working arrangements need to be accessible


RFF: Resources for the Future · 19 April 2024

Wildfire Smoke in the United States Jacob Gellman and Matthew Wibbenmeyer Working Paper 24-04 April 2024 About the Authors Jacob Gellman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Economics …

Air pollution and the labor market: Evidence from wildfire smoke. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-46.


IRELGOV: Instituto de Relações Governamentais · 19 April 2024 Portuguese

Vale destacar a integração de ferramentas de produtividade, uso de bases de dados para geração de análises e relatórios, além da ampliação do consumo de fontes diversas de informação. [...] …

Labor market exposure to AI: Cross-country differences and distributional implications. IMF Working Paper 2023/216.


ActionAid Association (India) · 19 April 2024 English

Beyond the scheme-based commitments which some state governments and the central government have given in the form of urban employment schemes or the rural employment guarantee act << 2 >> …

categorization and wage standards, with specified timelines and frequencies, to ensure that they stay aligned with economic and labor market changes.


RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 19 April 2024 English

HEALTH SECURITY The 2009-2013 AIFS Framework recognised the multi-faceted nature of the 2007- 08 GFPC, including the competing demands for land between agriculture and biofuel markets, and interactions between food …

pandemic, multi-level governance gaps in the labour market While they have brought significant economic


TPI: The Productivity Institute · 19 April 2024 English

The use of the ONS statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of the ONS in relation to the interpretation or analysis of the statistical data. [...] …

Mechanism 1: Role of women on other women’s labour market outcomes Why should we expect positive spillover in the labour market. Galanakis (2022) shows how frictions generate mismatch in the labour market and affect ceiling? The effect of board quotas on female labour market outcomes in Norway,” The Review of Economic


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