Employment patterns are gender-driven, yet analyses of women’s employment often fail to recognize the heterogeneous patterns evident within women’s labour market participation itself. This article examines the variation in women’s labour market participation in light of Hakim’s...

Op 30 juni 2000 organiseerde het Amsterdams Instituut voor ArbeidsStudies (AIAS) zijn jaarlijkse conferentie. Deze keer is het thema congres ‘CAO-vernieuwing, decentralisatie en Europese coördinatie’. Op deze conferentie staan recente ontwikkelingen op het gebied van de collectieve...

High levels of unemployment, or high levels of social expenditures as well as the growing demand for a flexible labour force have given new impetus to the world-wide discussion on what model to use for an efficiently operating labour market and in particular on the role of institutions. Although...

h3. English summary No one will question that the share of women working in the Dutch labour market increased over the last decades. It is also apparent that there is a rapid development of childcare and other work-family balance provisions in collective labour agreements (CLAs): either these...

This paper analyses the integration of active labour market policies for two groups of unemployed from a theoretical perspective. In general a model with only one type of agent performs better than a model with two types of agents. If there are two types of agents part of the effort of one agent...

*Management Summary* This report provides information on Malawi on behalf of the implementation of the DECISIONS FOR LIFE project in that country. The DECISIONS FOR LIFE project aims to raise awareness amongst young female workers about their employment opportunities and career possibilities,...

Voor u ligt een rapport over een onderzoek naar keuzemogelijkheden in CAO’s. Dit onderzoek is verricht in opdracht van ABVAKABO FNV te Zoetermeer, omdat deze bond voor het vraagstuk wordt gesteld of ze al dan niet een beleidslijn zal ontwikkelen, gericht op uitbreiding van keuzemogelijkheden...

This research report constitutes the Dutch contribution to the international research project 'Industrial relations in the transportation industry: a European observatory', funded by the Italian employers' association Federetti. This research project was aimed at exploring current practices in...

h3. English summary<br /> This paper is written as a reappraisal of the work on inflation and wage bargaining of Ezio Tarantelli, the Italian economist who in 1985 was brutally killed by the Red Brigades. It returns to his ideas, and the discussion within the OECD, about combating inflation and free...

This study examines the effects of the basic wage rate, standard working hours and unionisation on paid overtime work in Britain using individual-level data from the New Earnings Survey over the period 1975-2001. For this purpose we estimate a panel data model. We show that to obtain consistent...