This Chapter was initially drafted during the Obama Administration. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) had been negotiated and, although it had not yet been ratified in the United States, the Administration and majority of policymakers were in favor of its implementation. Since that...

Are you a senior citizen (65 years and above) thinking of what job you could do at this stage of your life? Or do you know a senior citizen thinking of what job he/she could do? Or are you a prospective senior citizen thinking of what benefit you could be of to the corporate world? This article...

The COVID-19 pandemic represented the emergence of an enormous, systemic, and largely un-anticipated economic risk. It upended entire industries on a global scale, shuttered millions of businesses by government order, and left millions more struggling to adapt to unforeseen and rapidly changing...

How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to men's regarding the workplace, marriage, family, Social Security, criminal justice, credit markets, and other parts of the economy and society, decades after they gained the right to vote? The story begins with the civil rights...

This piece develops, in the form of a discussion of alternative labor-law regimes, a thesis about the importance of enlarging the existing repertory of institutional arrangements for the organization of different areas of social life. Law and legal analysis form the terrain on which such...

The level of economic development of county and it’s capacity to provide jobs reflects important issues which could be measured in line with the occupancy degree of the workforce. In the context of our county’s accession to the European Union, Romania should pursue a sustainable economic...

This study aims to analyze the implementation of Labor Law in Kosovo, with a particular attention towards Article 49th which regulates the issue of maternity leave. Labor Law in Kosovo has been in force only for a year, and as such it has been a matter of discussion because of the challenges...

This paper explores the relationship of the informal economy to the formal economy and the formal regulatory environment. It begins with a discussion of the concept of the informal economy and its size, composition, and segmentation. It then discusses the linkages between the informal economy...

This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...

Labor regulation and employment relation has been investigated in India in light of the seminal work of Besley and Burgess (2004), considering formal sector manufacturing employment as the explained variable. Empirical findings support, although not very strongly, the institutionalist view,...