The Labour Markets of Emerging Economies: Has Growth Translated Into More and Better Jobs?

ISBN-13: 9781137325341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 282 str.

Sandrine Cazes

Opis

The past few decades have witnessed the economic and geopolitical rise of a number of large middle-income countries around the world. This volume focuses on the labour market situations, trends and regulations in these emerging economies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Labour Market Trends in Emerging Economies: Decent Work Deficits Persist Despite Growth and Resilience to the Crisis 3. Labour Market Regulations for Development: Enhancing Institutions and Policies in Emerging Economies 4. Transitions out of Informality and Falling Unemployment: The Transformation of the Brazilian Labour Market since the 2000s 5. The Tale of Two Labour Markets: The Resilience of the Indonesian Labour Market to the Global Financial Crisis Versus Increasing Casualization of Jobs 6. The South African Labour Market: Long-term Structural Problems Exacerbated by the Global Financial Crisis 7. Strengthening the Turkish Labour Market Through More Efficient Regulations 8. Conclusion

O autorze

Sandrine Cazes is the Head of the Employment Analysis and Research Unit at the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland. She was previously the Employment Specialist of the ILO Subregional Office for Central and Eastern Europe in Budapest and worked at the French Economic Observatory-Sciences Po in Paris. She has published widely on labour markets, job flexibility and employment stability.
 
Sher Verick is Senior Employment Specialist with the ILO office for South Asia in New Delhi, India. He holds a master's in development economics from the Australian National University and a PhD in economics from the University of Bonn, Germany. He is co-editor of From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options (ILO/Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).