Argues that the effects of financial liberalization on employment and incomes often carry disturb economic and social development and that financial liberalization warrants at least as much attention as trade liberalization. Compares and weighs the potential benefits in terms of growth against...

Analyses the gender dimensions of the impact of the global economic crisis on the world of work, highlighting the overall higher vulnerabilities and insecurity of women's work than men's. Examines the gender-differentiated regional global and regional trends of unemployment and vulnerable...

This paper looks at possible transmission channels through which the 2008 crisis might affect the earnings distribution (changes in employment composition, changes in hours of work and changes in pay structure). In addition to the earnings channel, the crisis may also affect the income...