Abstract
Considers labour market institutions in their full array, ranging from formal labour market regulations and polices to informal values and norms, but also labour markets as institutions in themselves.
- Title
- In defence of labour market institutions; cultivating justice in the developing world
- Creators
- Janine BergDavid Kucera
- Contributors
- International Labour Office
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan; New York
- Date published
- 2008
- Number of pages
- xvi, 293 p. :
- Language
- English
- Asset Type
- summary
- Record Identifier
- 995272006702676
- Table of contents
- Introduction / Janine Berg and David Kucera -- Labour institutions in the developing world: historical and theoretical perspectives / Janine Berg and David Kucera -- Measurement labour market institutions: conceptual and methodological questions on "working hours rigidity" / Sangheon Lee and Deirdre McCann -- Institutions and the finance of general skills training: evidence from Africa / Irmgard Nübler -- The origins of unemployment insurance: lessons for developing countries / Janine Berg and Matthew Salerno -- The revival of minimum wage setting institutions / François Eyraud and Catherine Saget -- What can the labour demand function tell us about wages and employment? The case of the Philippines /Jesus Felipe and J.S.L. McCombie -- The impact of trade unions: what do economist say? / Zafris Tzannatos -- Labour standards and informal employment in Latin America / Rossana Galli and David Kucera -- Legal determinants of labour informality / José Luis Daza Pérez -- New trends in Latin American labour reforms: the law, its reform and its impact in practical terms / María Luz Vega Ruíz.