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Employment Protection Legislationby Per Skedinger
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 40.00Employment protection legislation is one of the most controversial issues in the labour market. This book covers more than one hundred international studies, dealing with the impact of legislation on productivity, personnel turnover, structural change, perceived job security, and the aggregate level and distribution of employment and unemployment. more...
Globalisation and Labour Rightsby Christine Breining-Kaufmann
Hart 2007; US$ 139.20In a world of work that has changed dramatically over the last few years, states see themselves confronted with new actors and conflicting international legal obligations. This book examines the tensions between core labour rights as defined by the International Labour Organisation, and the interests of international economic institutions (e.g. WTO, IMF, World Bank, OECD). It provides an analysis of the legal interactions between international regulations and state policy with regard to potential regulatory conflicts, at both the horizontal and vertical level. The study suggests a model of multilevel consistency as a way of reconciling the highly specialised and fragmented legal systems of core labour rights on the one hand, and trade liberalisation... more...
Paraguay - Empleo y protección socialby International Labour Office
International Labour Office 2003; US$ 25.00Describes the relationship between the labour market, social protection and poverty. Examines the role of labour market policy, minimum wage and small enterprises on reducing poverty and promoting decent work. Investigates social security coverage in health, retirement and pension benefits and reviews plans for reforming the social security system. more...
Child and Adolescent Domestic Work in Brazilby International Labour Office
International Labour Office 2003; US$ 5.00Analyses data from the National Household Sample Survey (NHSS) and presents a profile of child domestic workers by age, sex, race/colour, hours of work, remuneration, education, family and maternity. more...
People with Disabilities - Pathways to Decent Workby International Labour Office
International Labour Office 2007; US$ 5.00Religious Freedom, Religious Discrimination and the Workplaceby Lucy R. Vickers
Hart 2008; US$ 91.20The book considers the extent to which religious interests are protected in the workplace, with particular reference to the protection against religious discrimination provided by the Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations 2003. It establishes a principled basis for determining the proper scope of religious freedom at work, and considers the interaction of freedom of religion with the right not to be discriminated against on grounds of religion. Discrimination on grounds of religion and belief within the workplace raises many complex and contested issues, not least because of the multi-faceted nature of religious discrimination. Discrimination can occur where secular employers refuse to employ or accommodate religious employees,... more...
Just a Numberby Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 144.95Examining the primary role of legislation and court process in combating age discrimination at both the national and international level, this work provides a detailed examination of the relationship between age issues and the law. The role of NAFTA and the EU is also discussed in this important resource for all those involved in age discrimination and elder rights. more...
Systemic Discrimination in Employment and the Promotion of Ethnic Equalityby Ronald Craig
BRILL 2006; US$ 201.00This book argues that traditional complaint-based antidiscrimination laws are inherently inadequate to respond to systemic discrimination in employment. It examines the mechanisms and characteristics of systemic discrimination and the shortcomings of complaint-based laws. Yet these characteristics can also inform employers and government authorities of the kinds of preventive action that help alleviate systemic discrimination at the workplace. In its search for a rational government policy response to systemic discrimination, the book evaluates selected legal regimes which impose proactive obligations on employers to promote equality at the workplace. Proactive regimes are regulatory in nature, rather than adjudicatory. They induce employer... more...
Occupational and Residential Segregationby Jacques Silber; Yves Fluckiger; Sean F Reardon
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 124.95This volume is divided into five parts, each one including two chapters. Part I is devoted to 'Information Theory and Segregation Measurement', part II to 'The Gini Index and the Measurement of Segregation', part III to 'Measuring Segregation with Ordered Categories', part IV to 'Exploring Changes in Segregation' and part V to 'Wage Inequality and Segregation'. Let us now review into more details each of these ten chapters. more...
Taking Employment Discrimination Seriouslyby Yuwen Li; J Goldschmidt
BRILL 2009; US$ 110.00This book examines employment discrimination in China on the grounds of health, gender, disability and social origin. In their chapters, the European authors discuss the law on anti-discrimination in employment at both the EU and domestic level. more...









