Labour markets & employment

As the outcome of the third international conference of political economy, the papers in this volume cover a range of topics, related to the conference theme of "labor markets and employment", from globalization to migration, unionization to policy implementation, and women's labor to child labor and ethnic issues in employment. Despite the wide range they come from, almost all papers draw attention to the radical changes in employment policies and practices around the world, and many of them point to global neoliberalism as the source of this transformation process, one way or another. We believe that revealing the dynamics of this process and putting forward possible alternative policies and practices across the world would provide signi¬cant contribution to solving the problems of labor markets and employment, as the papers in this collection attempt to do.