RDW Conference Papers and Presentation slides
Day 1 (8 July 2009)
Plenary I
The Evidence-Based Case for Labour Regulation, S. Deakin ::slides:: Precarious Employment and the Problem of SER-Centrism: Regulating for 'Decent Work', L. Vosko ::slides::
Session 1.1 Beyond deregulatory narratives I
Imagining Post "Geneva Consensus" Labour Law for Post "Washington Consensus" Development, B. Langille A diagnostic methodology for regulating for decent work, D. Frey ::slides::
Session 2.1 Regulating non-standard work I
Laws or luck?: Understanding rising formality in Brazil in the 2000s, J. Berg ::slides:: Labour market regulations and the welfare of Indonesian workers: much ado about nothing?, I. Islam ::slides:: Labor politics of employment protection legislation for non-regular workers in South Korea, B-H Lee and S.M. Eun ::slides::
Session 3.1 Understanding labour regulations - Brazil, Indonesia and Korea
Uncertainty and work: a comparative study of work insecurity and quality of working life and family life in Latin America, F. Mancini ::slides:: Determinants of job insecurity in 5 European countries, P. de Pedraza and R. de Bustillo ::slides:: Core and/or periphery: employment protection law and effective regulation of quality of working life, M. Weiss
Session 1.2 Beyond deregulatory narratives II
'Non-core' labor right and standards in developing countries: a study of China, Indonesia, India and Brazil, T. Warnecke, A. deRuyter, A. Singh and A. Zammit ::slides:: Improving Quality of Worklife through Labour Legislation, D. Adhikari and D. Gautam Labor Standards in the US: New Directions and New Evidence, M. Reich ::slides::
Session 2.2 Labour regulation and migration
Labour rights and labour standards for migrant workers in India, W. Salve Temporary Migrant Labour in Australia: The 457 Visa Scheme and the Challenges for Labour Regulation, J-C. Tham and I. Campbell ::slides::
Session 3.2 Innovation in legal policies
Techniques in innovative policy making - examples from India, S. Goparaju and S. Shome ::slides:: Governing regulatory discretion: innovation, performance and accountability in two models of labour inspection work, R. Pires ::slides:: How to regulate training?: the role of informal apprenticeship, I. Nuebler ::slides::
Session 4.1 Assessing flexicurity
Government-provided versus mandated labour protections: economic distortions or worker security?, D. Hevenstone ::slides:: The flexicurity nexus and the regulation of quality of work, M. Smith ::slides::
Plenary II
International labour standards and national regulatory agencies: US influence, European models, and Latin American outcomes, A. Schrank ::slides:: The enactment of three new labour laws in China: unintended consequences and emergence of 'new' actors in employment relationships, F. Cooke ::slides::
Day 2 (9 July 2009)
Session 1.3 Regulatory enforcement: some measurement issues
Institutional arrangements, employment performance and quality of work, W. Eichhorst and P. Marx ::slides:: Using statistics to measure diversity compliance by establishing deviations from labor market practices - A model for effective and economic regulation in the global computer age, A. Blumrosen and A. Blumrosen The impact of labour regulations: measuring the effectiveness of legal norms, S. Lee and D. McCann ::slides::
Session 2.3 Labour market reforms and outcomes I
Earning effects and employment consequences of labour reforms in Argentina: new evidence, F. Groisman ::slides:: Winds of change: work arrangements in Germany, U. Walwei, M. Dietz and A. Arlt ::slides::
Session 3.3 Regulating wages I - reviving the debate
Gender and the minimum wage, D. Grimshaw and J. Rubery ::slides:: Minimum wage legislation: transcending the economic debate, N. Ghosheh ::slides:: On seniority wage in Japan, M. Akahori
Session 4.2 Regulating work in global production I
Employment standards in world food production - the place of GLOBALGAP supply contracts and indirect legislation, R. Tipples and R. Whatman ::slides:: (Re-)Instating Decent Work through Mature Systems of Industrial Relations: the case of River Rich Cambodia, D. Miller and C. Gregoratti Labour standards and trade: unilateral, regional and multilateral approaches, M. Jansen ::slides::
Session 1.4 Working conditions as an object of regulation
Working conditions laws in contemporary legal policy: regulating time, money and family life, D. McCann ::slides:: Regulating working conditions in the globalizing world: recent trends in Tanzania, T. Ackson ::slides:: Working Conditions in an Integrating World: Regulating Time, Money and Family Life: China, S. Cooney ::slides::
Session 2.4 Labour market reforms and outcomes II
Between welfare and work. Households in Germany's basic social care system, M. Dietz, G. Mueller and M. Trappmann ::slides:: Have labour market reforms at the turn of the millennium changed job durations of the new entrants? A comparative study for Germany and Italy, G. Giannelli, U. Jaenichen and C. Villosio ::slides:: Informal employment: two contested policy issues, D. Kucera and L. Roncolato ::slides::
Session 3.4 Regulating wages II - Asian experiences
At what level should minimum wages be set? Insights from household data in India, U. Amara and P. Belser ::slides:: What is required to make non-standard work a better alternative ?, J.Ahn and J. Sung ::slides::
Session 4.3 Regulating work in global production II
Towards an Integrative Theory of Transnational Labor Regulation, K. Kolben Regulating Vulnerable Work: A Sector-Based Approach, D. Weil ::slides:: Beyond "Regulatory Enclaves": Challenges and Opportunities to Promote Decent Work in Global Production Networks, A. Posthuma ::slides::
Session 1.5 Reconsidering labour regulations
Re-inventing employment regulation in the face of globalization and flexibilization of production, K. Stone The need for a revitalized regulatory scheme to address workplace bullying in the United States: Strengthening the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act, S. Harthill ::slides::
Session 2.5 Flexibility, security and participation: new methods and approaches
Labour market flexibility and unemployment in the UK regime: the size, type and mix of flexibility matters, V. Monastiriotis ::slides:: Social protection and gender equality at work: The effect of childcare on the quality of working life for low-income women in Chile and Mexico, L. Addati ::slides:: Taylor revisited: 'the right job for a man' - participative work (re)design for special need groups, H. Mulders and F. Zijlstra ::slides::
Session 3.5 Regulations, working life and gender
Decent work and decent life for women in Southern Africa, N.E. Ramos Martin ::slides:: Night Work Prohibition of Women Workers in the Philippine Call Center Industry, R. Keitel and D. Ledesma ::slides:: Distress Work amongst Women? Women's work as an insurance mechanism- Micro-data evidence from 66 developing countries, S. Bhalotra and M. Umana-Aponte ::slides::
Session 4.4 International framework agreements
Transnational framework agreements: new forms of work regulation, I. da Costa ::slides:: Transnational social dialogue at the sector and the company level, A. Sobczak ::slides::
Plenary III
The decline of occupational labour markets and the spread of entry tournaments: labour market segmentation in Britain, D. Marsden ::slides:: International regulation and the quality of work in historical perspective, G. Rodgers ::slides::
Day 3 (10 July 2009)
Session 1.6 Working time regulation: Institutional linkages and new perspectives
Long work hours for some, short work hours for others: the regulation of working time in the United States, S. Rosenberg ::slides:: Multinationals versus Domestic Firms: Wages, Working Hours and Industrial Relations, K. Tijdens and M. van Klaveren Hours regulation as an employment stabilization policy: promoting part-time 'un'employment in lieu of layoffs, R. LaJeunesse ::slides::
Session 2.6 Promoting social protection in the informal economy
Worker's life, work and decency: needed regulatory measure in India, B. Singh Vulnerability and young women entrepreneurs: a case study of the Ethiopian informal economy, H. Phororo and S. Verick ::slides:: A holistic approach to regulating decent work, D. Frey and G. MacNaughton ::slides::
Session 3.6 Enforcements of labour laws: a weak link?
Federal worksite enforcement of US Immigration Laws, L. Schmall As Chilean as a Colchagua Carmenere: Chilean Labor Law enforcement after the US - Chile Free Trade Agreement and what the US should do to help, C. Marzán ::slides::
Session 1.7 Regulating non-standard work
Untangling the triangle: The regulatory challenges of triangular employment, P. Benjamin ::slides:: Regulating multi-layered subcontracting to improve labour protection, A. Yun ::slides:: Rethinking employer responsibilities for temporary agency workers, E. Underhill and M. Rimmer ::slides::
Session 2.7 Enabling environments for labour regulation in the informal economy
Labour law and development: Creating an enabling regulatory environment and encouraging formalisation, S. Marshall, J. Howe and C. Fenwick ::slides:: Global production, employment conditions and decent work: evidence from India's informal sector, S. Damodaran ::slides:: Conditions of 'decent working life' of street vendors in Mumbai, D. Saha ::slides::
Session 3.7 Quality of working life at the firm-level
Quality of working life and organizational performance: empirical evidence from the Dhaka export processing zone, Z. Islam and S. Siengthai ::slides:: Job quality: The experience of the construction and care sectors in Spain, J. Banyuls, F. Miguelez and A. Recio ::slides::
Session 4.5 Labour regulations, wage inequality, and low wages
Low wage work in five European countries and the US, G. Bosch ::slides:: State approaches to protecting workers from low-paid, insecure work, H. Metcalf and A. Dhudwar ::slides:: The impact of collective wage determination on wage dispersion, D. Trajtemberg
Session 1.8 Evaluating regulations - new frontiers
Regulating for negative human interaction: an evaluation of the effectiveness of anti-bullying regulation(s), H. Hoel ::slides:: Socially responsible improvements in working conditions: implications on policies and programs, J. Torres ::slides:: Slavery vs. Decent Work: Two Case Studies in Brazil, S. McGrath ::slides::
Session 2.8 Monitoring job quality - How can this be done?
E Pluribus Unum? A critical review of job quality indicators, R. de Bustillo, E. Fernandez-Macias, J.-I Antón and F. Esteve ::slides:: Is Job Satisfaction U-Shaped in Wages?, A. Brown, A. Charlwood, C. Forde and D. Spencer ::slides:: How is job quality changing?, F. Green ::slides::
Session 3.8 Regulating domestic work - new approaches
Labour regulations' ambiguity and quality of working life: domestic servants in Argentina, R. Cortes ::slides:: The legacyization of Home-Based Care Work in State Labor Law, P. Smith ::slides:: Decent work for domestic workers: wishful thinking or an achievable goal?, M. Tomei ::slides::
Plenary IV (Panel Debate) Economic crisis and labour regulations: new issues and challenges
Summary note of the Panel Debate, N. Torm