This article reviews the development of employer's vicarious liability in the context of China's changing socio-economic background, through a systematic examination and analysis of the relevant legislative framework and judicial decisions. The current Chinese law has broken from the past...

The paper investigates the impact of ownership concentration on GDP growth, for a sample of 18 OECD countries over the period 1980 to 2004. The econometric analysis shows that more concentrated ownership can speed up growth, for countries approaching the technological frontier, provided that...

European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to lookinto joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employmentwithout a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are notaccounted for). Consistently...

About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using adata set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003,we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present asimple theoretical...

This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is tounderstand why every jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularlyemployment protection law, while most economic analysis of the law suggests that lessemployment protection would...

Der Lohnfindungsprozess in Deutschland ist einem starken Wandel unterworfen, denn das Flächentarifsystem befindet sich auf dem Rückzug. Stattdessen gewinnen Individualarbeitsverträge sowie konkurrierende und berufsständische Kollektivverträge an Bedeutung. Politik und Rechtsprechung...

In the perspective of dominant orthodox standpoint against state-intervention to protect the interest of labour, this paper examines a longitudinal dataset on various aspects of labour law for four OECD countries (UK, USA, France and Germany) over a long time span 1970-2006. It supports the...

This chapter in a compendium on the World Trade Organization (WTO) examines the role of human values in the quest for coherence in the global governance of work and trade. I use the term "global governance" to refer to the system of international institutions, rules and processes that guide the...

The Longitudinal Labour Regulation Index is a measure of the strength of a countries labour law. This index was originally developed Simon Deakin and colleagues at Cambridge University. This document provides full variable descriptions, the reasons for coding and a summary of the data for New...

During the recent boom in the world economy, many western developed countries, of varying political complexion, adopted neoliberal welfare policies and deregulated labour markets. For the unemployed these reforms were characterised by contracting-out of labour exchange functions (public...