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International Labour Review articles from December 2008
This global multidisciplinary journal covers labour, social policies and relationships. It also covers fields, such as employment and labour markets, training and skills development, social security and social protection, labour law and labour institutions.
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International Labour Review archives from December 2008
An equilibrium analysis of the gender wage gap.
December 1, 2008... Abstract. Within a two-sector general equilibrium model, women's productivity in the marketplace decreases with the amount of household work they perform at home. Assuming that men's and women's household labour inputs are complementary here...
Informal employment: two contested policy issues.
December 1, 2008... Abstract: This article addresses two contested issues of crucial importance to policy, namely: formal labour regulations as a cause olin formal employment, and so-called "voluntary" informal employment. The authors provide theoretical...
A strategic approach to labour inspection.
December 1, 2008... Abstract. In a report released in 2006, the ILO highlighted the difficulties of labour inspection in its member States and advocated a number of measures to strengthen its effectiveness. The author argues that inspectorates must go beyond...
Social protection in Chile reforms to improve equity.
December 1, 2008... Abstract. At the beginning of the 1980s, Chile pioneered the implementation in Latin America of structural reforms that fully or partially privatized pensions, health-care and social assistance systems. Implemented without prior social...
International labour standards: recent developments in complementarity between the international and national supervisory systems.(NOTES, DEBATES AND COMMUNICATIONS)
December 1, 2008... Abstract. Far from competing against one another, the national and international systems of labour regulation are interlocked. ILO standards have been used in recent rulings by the highest jurisdictions of some countries. Examining two...
The World Bank's "Employing Workers" index: findings and critiques--a review of recent evidence.(NOTES, DEBATES AND COMMUNICATIONS)
December 1, 2008... Abstract. This note provides an update on the ongoing debate over the World Bank's Doing Business project with a particular focus on its "Employing Workers" index, which is intended to measure difficulty of hiring, rigidity of working hours...
Inequalities and financial globalization: a timely report.(NOTES, DEBATES AND COMMUNICATIONS)(Report)
December 1, 2008... Abstract. Following the launch of the World of Work Report, the new annual report of the ILO' s International Institute for Labour Studies, this note presents the contents of the first report in this series, subtitled "Income inequalities in...
Reassembling social security: A survey of pensions and health care reforms in Latin America.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Reassembling social security: A survey of pensions and health care reforms in Latin America. By Carmelo MESA-LAGO. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. xxvi + 453 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-923377.9.
This book is particularly welcome at a time...
