Recently added articles from International Labour Review:

The evolution of labour law calibrating and comparing regulatory regimes.

Sep 22, 2007; Deakin, Simon ... Abstract: Using a newly-created data set which measures legal change over time, the authors present evidence on the evolution of labour law in France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their analysis casts light on the claim that "legal origin" affects the content ...

Monopsony as a metaphor for the emerging post-union labour market.

Sep 22, 2007; Erickson, Christopher L. ... Abstract: How can employers worldwide be experiencing increasingly severe labour shortages in the face of globalization? Why don't wages rise in expanding economies? This article argues that declining union power has allowed employers to take the upper hand, setting pay and other ...

The right to work: linking human rights and employment policy.

Sep 22, 2007; Mundlak, Guy ... Abstract: This article outlines various explanations for singling out the right to work from the roster of human rights, and emphasizes the dilemmas associated with regulating the labour market as a barrier to the development of the right. It compares two frameworks that address these ...

Intermittent child employment and its implications for estimates of child labour.

Sep 22, 2007; Levison, Deborah ... Abstract: Using longitudinal data from urban Brazil, the authors track the employment patterns of thousands of children aged 10-16 during four months of their lives in the 1980s and 1990s. The proportion of children who work at some point during a four-month period is substantially higher ...

European employment models under pressure to change.

Sep 22, 2007; Bosch, Gerhard ... Abstract: "National employment models" comprise the whole range of institutions that determine labour supply, utilization and demand in different countries. Based on a study of existing typologies of these models, this article explores their workings and their capacity to survive pressures ...

Informality, the state and the social contract in Latin America: a preliminary exploration.

Sep 22, 2007; Saavedra, Jaime ... Abstract: This article sees informality in Latin America as a reflection of dysfunctional interactions between individuals and the State and of the latter's inability to perform adequately in regard to redistribution and the provision of public goods and services. This translates into low ...

The (changing?) idea of labour law.(NOTES, DEBATES AND COMMUNICATIONS)

Sep 22, 2007; Davidov, Guy ... In recent years labour laws have been constantly under threat from governments favouring "free markets" and from the pressures of global competition. This has prompted some labour law scholars to rethink the traditional justifications for labour laws. Such rethinking is certainly needed, ...

Workers in the informal sector: initiatives by India's National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (NCEUS).(NOTES, DEBATES AND COMMUNICATIONS)

Sep 22, 2007; Kannan, K.P. ... The "informal sector" has featured prominently in research and discussions on economic development and labour markets over the past 30 years, particularly in the context of the developing countries. It was seen as a transitory phenomenon to be transformed into the formal or organized ...

The ILO Century Project.(NOTES, DEBATES AND COMMUNICATIONS)(International Labour Organization)

Sep 22, 2007 ... The ILO recently launched the "Century Project", which will review and narrate the ILO's contributions to thinking and policy development on social and economic issues over the period since it was founded, in 1919, and look forward to its centenary in 2019. The goal is to gain a better ...

Asian informal workers: Global risks, local protection.(Book review)

Sep 22, 2007; Papola, T.S. ... Asian informal workers: Global risks, local protection. Edited by Santosh MEHROTRA and Mario BIGGERI. Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia. xxxii + 475 pp. London, Routledge, 2007. Index, tables, references. ISBN 0-415-38275-0. Increasing informalization of the ...

Diseno legal y desempeno real: Instituciones laborales en America Latina.(Book review)

Sep 22, 2007; Bayon, Maria Cristina ... Diseno legal y desempeno real: Instituciones laborales en America Latina. Edited by Graciela BENSUSAN. Conocer para Decidir series of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, LIX Legislature. Mexico, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and Miguel Angel Porrua, 2006. 497 pp. Tables, figures, ...