This book examinesprecarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis. It draws on twomain sources: theories of how the financial and debt crisis coupled with labourmarket reforms to exacerbate precarity in the workforce; and data from the EuropeanLabour Force Survey from 2005-12,...

Incorporating the most recent labour market information available, Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 sets out the youth labour market situation around the world. It shows where progress has or has not been made, updates world and regional youth labour market indicators and gives detailed...

"Labour in the global South is an exciting contribution to the new field of global labour studies. It identifies in ten clearly written chapters the innovative and creative responses to the challenges facing labour worldwide." -Edward Webster, University of Kassel, Germany, and University of the...

Labour reform is only one component of the larger process of reforming economy and society experienced by China over the last three decades. This book uses historical analytical tools in order to shed light on how policymaking takes place in contemporary China: an experimental and...

This volume contains new and innovative research articles on issues related to gender convergence in the labor market. Topics include patterns in lifetime work, earnings and human capital investment, the gender wage gap, gender complementarities, career progression, the gender composition of top...

This volume puts the spotlight on worker well-being. It looks at key questions such as: How important is incentive pay in increasing worker productivity? Does monitoring productivity affect a worker's earnings trajectory? How is the decision to retire different in two-earner families compared to...

The unprecedented progress of East Asia Pacifi c is a triumph of working people. Countries that were low-income a generation ago successfully integrated into the global value chain, exploiting their labor-cost advantage. In 1990, the region held about one-third of the world's labor force....

Intro -- LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT ISSUES -- LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT ISSUES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: THE LABOR MARKET DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE CURRENT RECESSION* -- SUMMARY -- THE LABOR MARKET DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION --...

Intro -- Contents -- List of tables, figures and boxes -- TABLES -- Table 2.1 OLS regression results for crisis impact versus exposure to potential transmission channels -- Table 2.2 World merchandise exports and imports by region, 2008-09 -- Table 2.3 World manufacturing exports by quarter,...