Global Labour in Distress, Volume I

This book, the first of two volumes, explores the transformations to the labour market observed since the official end of the Cold War in 1991. This period is defined by the retreat of the state and a move towards more market based economies, , followed by a State comeback with the Great Recession. These bumpy decades for labour and the prescribed labour policies changed are analysed thematically. The first volume focuses on globalization, international migration, employment, labour agency, technological change, and labour resilience. This book aims to examine how labour institutions, both in developed and developing countries, have responded to the challenges faced over the last 30 years. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in labour economics, the political economy, and development economics. Pedro Goulart is Deputy Director of CAPP, "Excellent" research center and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Universidade de Lisboa.

Raul Ramos is Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona.

Gianluca Ferrittu is a PhD candidate researcher at the Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Universidade de Lisboa.

Auteur

Pedro Goulart is Deputy Director of CAPP, "Excellent" research center and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Universidade de Lisboa.

Raul Ramos is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Barcelona.

Gianluca Ferrittu is a Doctoral Researcher at the Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Universidade de Lisboa.

Texte du rabat

The first volume focuses on globalization, international migration, employment, labour agency, technological change, and labour resilience. This book aims to examine how labour institutions, both in developed and developing countries, have responded to the challenges faced over the last 30 years. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in labour economics, political economy, and development economics.

Contenu

1. International migration.- 2. Immigration and prices.- 3. Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China.- 4. International Competition Intensified.- 5. Effects of Remittance Behavior on the Lives of Recent Immigrants to Canada from the Philippines.- 6. Gender pay gaps in domestic and foreign-owned firms.- 7. The impact of differences in the levels of technology on international labor migration.- 8. Are Workers in the Developing World Winners or Losers in the Current Era of Globalization?.- 9. Employment effect of innovation.- 10. Structural Transformation, Biased Technological Change and Employment in Vietnam.- 11. The Evolution of Skill-Biased Effects on American Wages in the 1980s and 1990s.- 12. The Developmental Potential of Frugal Innovation among Mobile Money Agents in Kitwe, Zambia.- 13 Helping a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor.- 14. A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class.- 15. Wages, employment and economic shocks.- 16. Growth and Recession.- 17. The Effect of Grandparental Support on Mothers' Labour Market Participation.- 18. Structure and agency in development-induced forced migration.- 19. Disaster disparities and differential recovery in New Orleans.