Work Behavior of the World's Poor
Subtitle: Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780754630661
Subjects: Statistical methods; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Cost and standard of living; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; Wages; Politics - Current Events; Labour economics; Poverty; Work & labour; Economics - General; Agricultural wages; Hours of labor
First sentence: Empirical studies of labor supply behavior of the working poor in both developed (DCs) and less developed countries (LDCs) generally observe a negative relationship between wage rate and labor supply.