Download or read book Differences and Changes in Wage Structures written by Richard B. Freeman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings. These twelve original essays explore whether this trend is unique to the United States or is part of a general growth in inequality in advanced countries. Focusing on labor market institutions and the supply and demand forces that affect wages, the papers compare patterns of earnings inequality and pay differentials in the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, Western Europe, and the changing economies of Eastern Europe. Cross-country studies examine issues such as managerial compensation, gender differences in earnings, and the relationship of pay to regional unemployment. From this rich store of data, the contributors attribute changes in relative wages and unemployment among countries both to differences in labor market institutions and training and education systems, and to long-term shifts in supply and demand for skilled workers. These shifts are driven in part by skill-biased technological change and the growing internationalization of advanced industrial economies.
Download or read book Maternity and Work written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1994 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concern to protect working women in connection with pregnancy and childbirth appeared when women first entered factory employment, and was reflected in the provision of maternity leave in some countries. Over time, maternity protection evolved to include measures to protect the pregnant woman's health, so that work does not harm the development of the foetus.
Download or read book Women and Social Security written by Anne-Marie Brocas and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1990 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how far men and women in equivalent employment situations enjoy equal social security rights, and to what extent there is a need for specific protection of women as mothers and as workers with family responsibilities."
Download or read book Workers Privacy Testing in the workplace written by and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1993 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third of three issues on workers' privacy in industrialized countries, this volume is devoted to testing of workers and job applicants to detect alcohol and drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, genetic abnormalities, psychological characteristics and honesty.
Download or read book Child Labour written by Alec Fyfe and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide aims to help policy-makers and practitioners design practical and targeted projects by applying the techniques of project design to the complex problem of child labour. The reader is guided through the logical sequence of steps necessary for effective project design and the drafting of coherent project documents. It includes guidelines on international labour standards, situation analysis and interviewing techniques.
Download or read book The Child and the State in India written by Myron Weiner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school, as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries? To answer this question, this major comparative study first looks at why and when other states have intervened to protect children against parents and employers. By examining Europe of the nineteenth century, the United States, Japan, and a number of developing countries, Myron Weiner rejects the argument that children were removed from the labor force only when the incomes of the poor rose and employers needed a more skilled labor force. Turning to India, the author shows that its policies arise from fundamental beliefs, embedded in the culture, rather than from economic conditions. Identifying the specific values that elsewhere led educators, social activists, religious leaders, trade unionists, military officers, and government bureaucrats to make education compulsory and to end child labor, he explains why similar groups in India do not play the same role.
Download or read book Child Care written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1990 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite an increase in the sheer number of child-care facilities available, governments and institutions have not been able to keep pace with the enormous demand by working parents for appropriate and affordable care for their children. The past few decades have seen the entry into the labour force of large numbers of women, many of whom have young children. Yet the achievement of equality between men and women in employment is hampered by the fact that women still have to assume the major burden of household work and child care. This timely bibliography, containing full descriptions of recent.
Download or read book Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations articles 19 22 and 35 of the Constitution written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1991 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender Autonomy in Western Europe written by R. Singh and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-05-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rina Singh's book compares seventeen Western European countries in the area of women's involvement in the public sphere (participation and policies affecting it) and private sphere (roles and policies affecting it). The interaction between the two spheres is analysed to determine where countries lie in the process towards gender autonomy - ultimately the ability of each sex to make free lifestyle choices to participate in both or either the public and private spheres in a way that neither penalises nor rewards the choices in material and/or social terms. Four models of gender autonomy are proposed.
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Download or read book Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations articles 19 and 22 of the Constitution written by International Labour Office. Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Encounter Technology written by Swasti Mitter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.
Download or read book The Revaluation of Women s Work written by Sheila Lewenhak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a survey and analysis of the different ways in which women's work is valued throughout the world. It challenges the narrow definition of work as paid work, as that excludes so many of women's activities. It looks at ways in which women's worth has been consistently undervalued in industrial as well as non-industrial countries, in socialist as well as free-enterprise economies. These practices distort the national product of countries heavily dependent on women's labour, but, above all, they are among the most obvious marks of the exploitation of women. Technological changes are already altering established female/male divisions of labour. Transnational enterprises, often located in Special Economic Zones, are reducing differences between industrial and nonindustrial countries. Valuing women's work correctly, whether unpaid in the home or underpaid outside it, is part of the battle against discrimination and poverty. Men who do similar work also benefit. It is the crucial step towards the achievement of male/female equality. The book will be particularly valuable for those concerned with the issues, in trade unions, women's groups, international agencies and NGOs and for course in economics and social studies.
Download or read book Global Employment written by Mihály Simai and published by United Nations University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Labour Report written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations articles 19 22 and 35 of the Constitution written by International Labour Office. Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1990 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
