International Review of Comparative Public Policy

by Behdad, Sohrab; Nomani, Farhad

• ISBN13: 9780762303755
• ISBN10: 0762303751
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Jai

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Statement of Scope	ix
Labor Markets in Transition: The Global Phenomenon	xi
Thomas D. Donley
Margaret Oppenheimer
PART I. LABOR MARKETS IN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES
Global Strike Patterns, Macroeconomic Variations, and Industrial Relations	3	(32)
Amy McCormick Diduch
Flexibility of Employment Relationships: Possibilities and Limits	35	(16)
Ulrich Walwei
Working-Time Policy, Hours Determination, and Regulatory Reforms in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries	51	(26)
Lonnie Golden
The New Reciprocity in the "Relation of Assistance": American Workfare Versus French Insertion Policies	77	(22)
Sylvie Morel
Comparative Employment and Industrial Relations Restructuring in Britain and Australia: Does A Consensual Policy Approach Make any Difference?	99	(20)
John Burgess
Duncan Macdonald
Contracting U.S. Labor Law: Insights into Proposed Reforms From Comparative Law	119	(18)
Ellen J. Dannin
PART II. LABOR MARKETS IN TRANSITIONAL AND INDUSTRIALIZING ECONOMIES
The Law and Practice of Collective Bargaining in The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland	137	(16)
Barbara J. Fick
Labor Markets in Transition: A Survey of Poland, Hungary, and The Czech and Slovak Republics	153	(30)
Thomas S. Mondschean
Margaret Oppenheimer
Labor Market and Policies to Combat Unemployment in Poland	183	(14)
Zenon Wisniewski
Protecting Female Workers in Industrializing Countries	197	(26)
Sita Nataraj
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Joseph E. Zveglich, Jr.
Technical and Vocational Education and Training in a Transition Economy: The Case of Vietnam	223	(20)
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Rapti Goonesekere
Labor Systems in Transitional Economies: An Analysis of China's Township and Village Enterprises	243	(28)
Paul Bowles
Gordon White
Asian Labor Markets and International Competitiveness: Australian Transformations	271
Robert Lambert