Global Labour in Distress, Volume I: Globalization, Technology and Labour Resilience

Article Note
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
The Post-Cold War Era and the Labour Market: An Overview
1 A New Economic Era: From the Post-War Economic Boom to Secular Stagnation?
2 A New Political Framework
3 Difficult Times for Labour Markets
4 Concluding Remarks
References
Part I: Globalisation and Migration
Labour Without Borders
1 Of Walls Fallen and Built: Globalisation and Labour Mobility
2 International Trade Since 1991
3 Labour Mobility in Distress
4 In This Section: Globalisation and Migration
References
International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of the Determinants of Bilateral Flows
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Framework
3 Data
4 Empirical Model
5 Empirical Results
6 Additional Results
7 Conclusions
Appendix
References
A unified model of relative deprivation and risk-laden migration
1. Introduction
2. An integrated model of relative deprivation and risk-laden migration
3. Conclusion
References
High-Skilled Migration: Past, Present and Future
1 Introduction
2 How Do We Define “High-Skilled” Migration?
3 Past: What Do We Know About “High-Skilled” Migration?
4 Present: Improving Our Current Knowledge
5 Future: Big Leaps with Big Data?
References
From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China
1 Economic Development in an Era of Global Labor Mobility
2 Taiwan: Transferring the Silicon Valley Model
3 Building China’s Venture Capital Industry
Sustainable Start-ups
4 Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship in India
Growth and Constraint
5 Conclusion
A Model for Others?
The Future of China and India
References
International Competition Intensified: Job Satisfaction Sacrificed?
1 Introduction
2 Offshoring and Individual Job Satisfaction: A Theoretical Framework
3 Approaching the Effects of Offshoring on Job Satisfaction Empirically
Data
Estimation and Results
4 Picking Out the Cherries or (Simply) Statistical Cherry-Picking?
5 Conclusions
Appendix
References
Gender Pay Gaps in Domestic and Foreign-Owned Firms
1 Introduction
2 Firm Ownership and Gender Wage Differentials
3 Data and Descriptive Statistics
4 Gender Wage Gap and Firm Ownership
Adjusted Gender Wage Gaps and Firm Ownership
Decomposition of the Gender Wage Gap
Firm-Specific Effects and Gender Wage Gaps
Unconditional Quantile Regression
5 Conclusions
Appendix
References
An International Organization’s Approach to Labour Migration for Human Development
References
Deglobalization and Labour: A New Era?
References
Part II: Jobs and Technological Change
Technological Change and the Future of Work
1 Nearly 30 Years of Living (and Working) with the Internet
2 Technology and Jobs
In This Section: Jobs and Technological Change
References
The Impact of Differences in the Levels of Technology on International Labor Migration
1 Introduction
2 The World Economy in the Absence of International Factor Movements
Production
Consumption and Factor Supply
A Stationary Equilibrium
3 The Pattern of International Labor Migration
International Capital Mobility Is Not Permitted
Unrestricted International Capital Mobility
4 Conclusions
References
Are Workers in the Developing World Winners or Losers in the Current Era of Globalization?
1 Introduction
2 Globalization and Labor: The Pessimists Versus the Optimists
3 Globalization, Level of Economic Development, and Potential Gains (or Losses) for Labor
4 The Evidence
Trends in Labor Market Conditions
5 The Model
The LDC Labor Models
6 Variables
The Dependent Variables: PLP, Ratiosk, and Surplus Labor
Globalization: Xmanuf, Portfolio, FDI
Control Variables: Democracy, Dependents, Growth, Urban, Human Capital Spending
The Results
Results for LICs
Breakdown of Results for MICs
Breakdown of Results for HICs
7 Implications
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Assessing PLP
References
The Role of Labour in Capability Upgrading: The Case of Emerging Market Multinationals
1 Strategic Asset-Seeking Investments and Emerging Market Multinationals
2 The Key Role of Skilled Labour for Acquiring Knowledge
3 Labour Integration Between EMNEs and Developed Countries’ Subsidiaries Is Not Always an Easy Task
4 Conclusions and Implications for Further Research
References
Employment Effect of Innovation
1 Introduction
2 Previous Literature
3 Econometric Strategy
4 Data Sources, Sample and Variable Construction
Data Sources
Sample Construction
Data Set
5 Results
OLS Estimation
GPS Estimation
6 Conclusions, Policy Recommendations and Limitations
Appendix
References
Structural Transformation, Biased Technological Change and Employment in Vietnam
1 Introduction
2 Context and Background
Structural Transformation
International Comparison
Technical Change and the Asian Miracle
3 Employment Growth Decomposition
4 Technological Change and Employment
5 Institutional Biases and Employment
Minimum Wage Policy
State Investment
6 Conclusions
References
‘Helping a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor’: The Logic of Survival Entrepreneurs
1 Introduction
2 The Moral Economy of the Slum
3 Differences Among Entrepreneurs: A Revisit of the Literature
4 A Consolidated Typology of Entrepreneurs
5 The Elusive Mirage of Graduation
6 Conclusions: Aligning Entrepreneurs and Policies
References
The Developmental Potential of Frugal Innovation Among Mobile Money Agents in Kitwe, Zambia
1 Mobile Money, Agents and Entrepreneurship: Some Debates
2 A Background to Mobile Money in Kitwe, Zambia
3 Labour Relations and Entrepreneurship Among Mobile Money Agents and Tellers
Agents and Tellers: Background
Financing, Business Operations and Market Construction
Franchising and Labour Relations
4 Inclusive Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Informalisation
5 Conclusion
References
List of Interviews
Dynamics of Mobile Money Entrepreneurship and Employment in Kitwe, Zambia
1 Introduction
2 Changes in Mobile Money Development and Entrepreneurship in Kitwe
3 Conclusion
References
Part III: Labour Agency and Resilience
Is the Canary Alive and Kicking? Labour’s Voice Under Crises
1 Introduction
2 Collective Voice and Agency
3 Crises and Resilience
4 In This Section: Labour Agency and Resilience
References
Labour and the State in India: Casualisation as Reform
1 Introduction: Declining Quality and Availability of Jobs
2 Rising Informalisation and Feminisation
3 Losing Labour Law Protection
4 Concluding Remarks
References
Wages, Employment, and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Indonesia
1 Introduction
2 The Indonesian Context
3 Data Sources
IFLS
SAKERNAS
4 Indonesian Labor Market Before and During the Economic Crisis
Employment Rates
Wages
Sub-group Differences
5 The Dynamics of the Labor Market Adjustment
Market Sector and Self-employed Hourly Earnings
Employment Rates and Transitions
Family Income
6 Conclusion
References
Growth and Recession: Underemployment and the Labour Market in the North of England
1 Introduction
2 The North During the Boom
3 The North’s Experience of Recession
Austerity and Public Sector Employment
4 Conclusions
References
The Effect of Grandparental Support on Mothers’ Labour Market Participation: An Instrumental Variable Approach
1 Introduction
2 Data and Variables
3 The Endogeneity of Grandparental Childcare
4 Methods
5 Existing Studies on the Effect of Grandparental Childcare on Mothers’ Labour Supply
6 Results
OLS, ITT and 2SLS Estimates of the Effect of Grandparental Childcare on Mothers’ Labour Force Participation
IV Assumptions: Tests and Robustness Checks
Heterogeneity of the Grandparental Childcare Effect
7 Summary and Concluding Remarks
References
Youth Labor Market Integration: The Role of Shocks and Institutions
1 Introduction
2 Shocks and Institutions in Youth Labor Markets—European Experiences
3 Policies and Institutions—Developing Countries Experiences
4 Outlook
References
A Vulnerability Approach to the Definition of the Middle Class
1 Introduction
2 Linking the Notion of Vulnerability to the Definition of Middle Class
3 Measurement of the Middle Class
4 The Data
5 A Vulnerability Approach to Middle-Class Analysis
6 Concluding Remarks
Appendix
References
Trade Unions, Work and Resilience
1 The Resilience Debates
2 The Resilience Landscape 1991–Now
3 Resilience as a Contested Terrain and the Abuse of the Concepts of Wellbeing and Work-Life Balance
References
Disaster Disparities and Differential Recovery in New Orleans
1 Introduction
2 Social Vulnerability
3 The Social Vulnerability Index for New Orleans
4 Hurricane Katrina’s Flood Waters
5 The Makings of a Disaster and Uneven Recovery
6 Tracking Repopulation and Recovery
7 The Places and Faces of Recovery
8 Governmental Support for Recovery
9 Discussion and Conclusions
References
Index