Will the internet, robotics and artificial intelligence mean a ‘jobless future'? A recent narrative, endorsed by prominent tech-billionaires, says we face mass unemployment, and we need a basic income. In contrast, this article shows why the law can achieve full employment with fair incomes,...

The rise of digital platforms through which labour is bought and sold is transforming the world of work and challenging the existing regulatory regimes that govern it. Depending on one's point of view, Uber has become the poster child or bête noir of this transformation, challenging traditional...

This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower...

Will the internet, robotics and artificial intelligence mean a ‘jobless future'? A recent narrative, endorsed by prominent tech-billionaires, says we face mass unemployment, and we need a basic income. In contrast, this article shows why the law can achieve full employment with fair incomes,...

In The Concept of the Employer (2015) Jeremias Prassl develops an elegant model to find who bears labour and employment law duties. It offers a logical complement to the multi-factor test to determine who is an 'employee.' This is meant to ensure the effectiveness of social rights in employment,...

The law stabilizes transactional relations by protecting the implicit expectations of the parties to contracts by various techniques including the imposition of mandatory and supplementary rules. The established pattern in the contract of employment of the protection of expectations of...

This Comment examines the legal challenges a team in the National Hockey League could face stemming from the recruitment and contracting of a player from another country who is already under contract with a team in his home country. Specifically, this Comment focuses on the relevant statutory...

We investigate the importance of client relationships in the financial advisory industry. We exploit firm-level variation in adoption of the Broker Protocol, which enabled clients to follow their advisers to member firms without fear of litigation. We show that advisers' ability to maintain...