The pilot study which you directed reveals that young Lebanese women are facing very specific obstacles to enter the labour market after their academic studies.
This could encourage workers to pass up potential job opportunities. (It could also encourage people to register as unemployed, without affecting underlying labour supply.) Most studies suggest that the extensions can be blamed for an increase in the unemployment rate of about a percentage point, although a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says the effect is much smaller, just 0.4 percentage points.
Unless they stay longer at work, it will need great numbers of immigrants maybe 1m a year, say some studies both to keep up its labour force and to avoid a drastic drop in welfare contributions and tax revenues.
Despite its limitations, the data, once examined, showed an interesting picture that echoes the more detailed studies and reports by the OECD and the International Labour Organization.
Studies of eight sectors that have minimum wages commissioned by the labour ministry show little damage to employment.
Anyway, the SNP calculation is that Ms Lamont and Labour will now be hampered for an extended period while their policy commission studies options.
Studies led by Ron Johnston of Bristol University uncover a clear pro-Labour bias in the present system.
Recent studies suggest that this investment explains much of the increase in America's labour-productivity growth, to an average of almost 3% over the past five years, double the average in the previous 20 years.
The report makes a strong case for broadband as a driver of economic growth and new jobs, citing country case studies and reports by leading consultancies that point to increased employment opportunities, higher labour productivity and a strong stimulus to GDP.
As for well-being, other studies show that elderly people who stop working tend to die sooner than their peers who labour on.
Multinational firms are a lot more productive than purely domestic ones, according to economists Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and Helen Simpson, in a working paper for the Institute for Fiscal Studies and there is some evidence that operations owned by foreign multinationals have higher labour productivity than those owned by British multinationals, partly because they invest more.
The government has asked the committee to examine the proposals before the finalised bill is introduced - and their first group of witnesses include Age UK, Carers UK, the TUC, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Pensions Policy Institute, former government pensions policy adviser Dr Ros Altmann, former Labour minister Baroness Hollis of Heigham and Professor Jay Ginn (Institute of Gerontology, King's College London), Women's Budget Group.
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