... groups. These changes also raised the demand for labour in manufacturing in the South, and reduced it in the North, causing alterations in manufacturing's share of total employment. More than 20 million extra jobs in manufacturing were created in a few Southern countries. In the North, the immediate...

...This chapter explores the content and impact of the remedial rules of the law of the contract of employment in the institutional contexts, first, of the formation, conduct and ending of work relationships and, secondly, of claiming behaviour and adjudication. The law on contractual remedies...

...This chapter emphasizes the extent to which the legal separation of unpaid domestic labour performed in the household from paid employment has shaped women’s paid work. It traces the legacy of this separation by considering the entitlement of paid domestic workers employed in private households...

...This chapter considers the evolution of the concept of ‘good faith’ in Canadian employment law. As in many other common-law jurisdictions, the Canadian common law has historically conceived of the employment relationship within a narrow transactional contractual paradigm. Unlike other common-law...

...: A more stable placement history; Educational stability and more access to educational tutoring supports; More access to therapeutic service and supports; More involvement with the foster family; Greater preparation for leaving care (e.g., employment training and support); More tangible resources upon...

... relationships and employment policies across sectors has increased in Japan, together with some restructuring of inter-firm alliances, direct owner-control (usually combined with highly centralized authority) remains the dominant form of corporate governance in Korea and Taiwan. The Korean economy continues...

...Both Japan and Korea had to whither important economic crises that inspired heated debate about the need for change in their economic institutions. This chapter discusses and compares the subsequent adjustments in their employment practices. It confirms important similarities in pre-crisis...

...Chapter 1 sets the stage by reviewing the evidence on output, employment, productivity, unemployment, and investment for five Central European countries – the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria. I focus on these countries simply because I know them better. But, while...

... stock indices are related phenomena, the chapter looks at how each component of the crisis and its aftermath has affected the two cities. It focuses especially on the employment effects associated with ongoing financialization of economic activity that occurred throughout the 2000s and the differential...

...This chapter examines the effects of external liberalization on China's economic growth, employment, and income distribution. The sections are organized as follows. Section 1 describes China's macro environment following trade liberalization. Section 2 reviews China's experience with liberalization...

... the past decade. Then, after dealing with the conceptual and statistical difficulties involved, decomposition exercises are performed regarding changes in aggregate demand and employment; at the end of this analysis, macroeconomic characteristics of different subperiods are discussed. The next section...

... the mainstay of employment in India. Section 4 summarizes trends in employment and its distribution across sectors and the formal-informal divide. Section 5 assesses the evidence and discusses the controversial debates about changes in income distribution and poverty brought about by reforms. Section 6 turns...

...This chapter examines the effects of external liberalization in Poland. It begins with a discussion of a general macroeconomic history of Poland. Section 2 discusses distribution and inequality. Section 3 considers the dynamics of unemployment. Section 4 examines labor productivity, employment...

... weeks of work age education spouses race partial retirement retirement reversal bridge job Baby Boomer retiree labor force status fully retired partly retired employment status ‘Retirement’ is often thought of informally as a discrete and permanent exit from the labor force at older ages...

...The research upon which this book is based draws on case studies of seven large organizations in Britain. Between 1997 and 1999 researchers examined changes in work and employment in a bank, a pharmaceutical company, a newspaper company, a large city council, a food retailer, an NHS Trust...

... Group finance 32 6 61 1 170 Group resources 36 6 57 1 290 Central 47 0 53 0 17 Operating resources 36 0 64 0 11 Total 45 19 35 1 3,702 Table 3.2. Female employment shares and part-time working at Bankco...

...This chapter argues that the different employment practices and policies can be interpreted as a function of two interrelated factors: wage labour costs and work intensity. In this way, the separate dynamics of change across dimensions of employment policy can be seen as a more interrelated set...

...This chapter lays out the basic argument of the book: the ascent of private ownership in China is largely due to the inability of the public sector to address two fundamental concerns for regime survival—employment and revenue. The chapter includes three sections. First, based on a review...

... cultural habits. IP/IPR introduces a temporal dimension central to economic calculation, and helps agents to distinguish tradable assets while disentangling themselves from them. Chapter 3 also picks up the ambivalences of business and creativity among ‘cultural entrepreneurs’, discussing self-employment...

...This chapter outlines controversies in the theory of employment. It focuses on four elements that characterize the approach to examining the debate of distinction between short-run and long-run analyses of unemployment. The first approach explains that unemployment is based on rigidities...