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Workers' rights to rest breaks at work - length of breaks, how your age affects rest breaks, exceptions to the rules for shift workers, young people, and drivers
The extent of bias in smallholder labor data is examined by conducting a randomized survey experiment among farming households
Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles?
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The rights of agricultural and farm workers - including pay rates, agricultural minimum wage, overtime, holiday leave, rest breaks, help and advice
A good understanding of the constraints on agricultural growth in Africa relies on the accurate measurement of smallholder labor.
This paper develops and implements a test that provides insight into the state of rural labor markets
Individuals care about their own pay but also their pay relative to that of their co-workers
Includes types of worker, employee rights, overtime and changes to contracts
This paper presents a theory of wage fairness in a subcontracted labor market
This research is part of the Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries programme
This study finds that in Tajikistan, after controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, migration has no significant effect on female work hours
Field experiment randomly offers mothers of young children a childcare subsidy, an equivalent cash grant, both or nothing
New Microeconomics Unit research explores trends in the UK job market including the market power of employers, the impact on wages, the use of restrictive clauses, and recent developments such as hybrid working.
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