Labour force participation and development - Standing, Guy (Geneva International Labour Organization (ILO), 1978)
Foreward -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Patterns of labour force participation --
2. Concepts of labour force participation and under-utilisation -- 3. Income, wages
and participation -- 4. Poverty, health and malnutrition -- 5. Discouraged workers
and additional workers : the inter-relationships between unemployment and labour
force participation -- 6. The impact of education on participation -- 7. Fertility and
female labour force participation -- 8. Migration, urbanization and labour force
participation -- 9. Concluding remarks
"This study is one of a series of publications arising out of the Population and Employment Project of the World Employment Programme."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-261) and index
Keywords: Labour force; LABOUR ECONOMICS; LABOUR SUPPLY; MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT; WORKERS' PARTICIPATION; EMPLOYMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT; LABOUR MIGRATION; FEMALE LABOUR; REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE; FERTILITY