PART I Overview. Featuring policies on precarious work in Asia -- Confronting precarious work in Asia: politics and policies -- PART II Country case studies. Policy responses to the precarity of non-regular employment in Japan -- Labor market flexibility and policy issues of non-regular...

Precarious work in comparative perspective -- Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia -- Global capitalism, domestic policies, and precarious work -- Dualisms of precarious work : nonstandard work, informal economy, and self-employment -- Precarious work, wages, and social protections -- Precarious...

Federal and state employment programs for low-skilled workers typically emphasize rapid placement of participants into jobs and often place a large fraction of participants into temporary-help agency jobs. Using unique administrative data from Detroit's welfare-to-work program, we apply the...