African agri-entrepreneurship in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic by Mariam A. T. J. Kadzamira, Adewale Ogunmodede, Solomon Duah, Dannie Romney, Victor Attuquaye Clottey, Frances Williams

“…The smallest agri-SMEs, mainly owner-managed by women, were more likely to experience disruptions in marketing their goods and maintaining their labour supply. Larger agri-SMEs made changes to their business operations to comply with government guidelines during the pandemic and made investments to manage their labour supply, thus sustaining their business operations. …”
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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Working Time by Toralf Pusch, Hartmut Seifert, Chiara Santoro

“…It shows that reductions in working hours have occurred mainly among those in marginal employment and recipients of social transfers, which is probably partly due to a reaction of the labour supply.…”
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New Regulations on Supplementary Income for Transfer Recipients: a Great Challenge by Kerstin Bruckmeier, Jürgen Wiemers

“…In this paper, we summarise potential effects of such a reform on labour supply, the income distribution and the government budget in the context of a complex welfare system characterised by a high level of benefit non-take-up.…”
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Parity in the German Labour Market Nearly Achieved by Alexander Kubis

“…In the medium term however, projections indicate that demographic change will significantly reduce the labour supply. Maintaining the current high level of economic activity therefore requires an all-out effort to raise the potential supply of skilled workers. …”
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INTEGRATION PROCESSES AND THEIR EFFECT ON IMMIGRATION POLICY by V. Zlenko, A. Ryazantsev

“…That is to say, the dynamics of an inheriting wave of innovation is consistent with the mobility of correlation between scarcity and redundancy of labour supply. This implies expediency of the regulatory action on these processes, including the implementation of the selective immigration policy and reasonable emigration policy, which may be either confirmed or rejected in an econometric framework, making it possible to trace the correlation of the immigration processes and performance of GDP in individual countries, members of integration associations.…”
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LOCAL INITIATIVES FOR THE UNEMPLOYMENT COUNTERACTION IN THE MAZOVIA PROVINCE by Marzena Kacprzak

“…Unemployment shows the inefficiency of the labour supply and labour demand adjustment. Sizes and multiple consequences of unemployment justify its recognition as a kind of twenty-first century plague. 1 Mazovia Province is both one of the most actively developing regions and one of the largest regional labor markets in Poland. …”
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The Long-Term Effects of Reforming Social Security to Relieve Low-Income Households by Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel, Manuela Barišić, Valentina Sara Consiglio

“…The main findings show that the second reform proposal leads to substantial relief for low income individuals and incentivises unemployed, marginal employed and parttime employed households to increase their labour supply. While there are already positive shortterm effects on employment, the second reform proposal increases longterm employment by 68,900 full-time equivalent units and the ensuing positive effect on employment and productivity is beneficial for the economy, the society, and for fiscal balances.…”
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Destabilization of Regional Labour Markets in Ukraineunder Heightened Security Threats by Taras G. Vasyltsiv, Olha O. Levytska, Olha P. Mulska, Ruslan L. Lupak, Iryna R. Bodnar

“…The main challenges to regional development in the short and long term are identified, and the critical trends in the social stability and labour supply and demand in the regions of Ukraine in the prewar period and during the war are characterized. …”
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