Creative Labour Regulation [electronic resource] : Indeterminacy and Protection in an Uncertain World /
McCann, D.editor.
Lee, S.editor.
Belser, P.editor.
Fenwick, C.editor.
Howe, J.editor.
Luebker, M.editor.
The volume is at the forefront of the academic and policy debates on effective labour regulation, offering innovative approaches to research and policy. It is an interdisciplinary response to the central challenges that face modern labour regulation and draws on contributions by leading experts in a range of disciplines.
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Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 Regulatory Indeterminacy and Protection in Contemporary Labour Markets: Innovation in Research and Policy; Introduction; Regulating the fragmented labour market: theory, doctrine and enforcement; Institutional interactions: the case of the minimum wage; Effective implementation: new theoretical and empirical approaches to enforcement indeterminacy; Conclusions; Notes; References
PART II: REGULATING THE FRAGMENTED LABOUR MARKET: EMPIRICAL AND DOCTRINAL INSIGHTS2 Fissured Employment: Implications for Achieving Decent Work; Who's in charge? Vignettes from the modern workplace; Fissured employment and its consequences; Building blocks of the fissured workplace; Fissured employment as a driver of indeterminacy; Franchising as a distinctive form of fissured employment; Franchising in fast food; Effects of fast food franchising on workplace labour standards; Rebalancing the fissured workplace; Rethinking responsibility in a fissured workplace; Rethinking enforcement
ConclusionsNotes; References; 3 Regulating for Decent Work and the Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations; Introduction; 'Regulating for decent work' and the 'legal construction of personal work relations': definitions and interactions; 'Legal construction of personal work relations': doctrinal and regulatory perspectives; The broad domain of personal work relations; The ideas of the personal work nexus and the personal work profile; The idea of differential integration of layers of regulation
Conclusions: 'regulating for decent work' and the 'legal construction of personal work relations' - normative purposes and empirical methodologyNormative purposes; Empirical methodologies; Notes; References; PART III: INSTITUTIONAL INTERACTIONS: THE CASE OF MINIMUM WAGE REGULATION; 4 Employment, Inequality and Minimum Wages in Argentina; Introduction; The minimum wage controversy; The international debates; Minimum wages in Latin America; The minimum wage in Argentina: history and recent evolution; Evaluating minimum wages and their impacts; Data; Who is affected by minimum wages?
Minimum wages versus average wages: too high or too low?Minimum wages and informal workers; Minimum wage dynamics: the wage and employment trajectories of sub-minimum wage earners; Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; References; 5 The Pay Equity Effects of Minimum Wages: A Comparative Industrial Relations Approach; Introduction; Minimum wages and pay equity; Interaction effects; Do more inclusive industrial relations models support higher value minimum wages?; What are the combined effects of minimum wages and collective bargaining on pay equity?
Pay equity outcomes and the role of institutions and actors
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The volume is at the forefront of the academic and policy debates on effective labour regulation, offering innovative approaches to research and policy. It is an interdisciplinary response to the central challenges that face modern labour regulation and draws on contributions by leading experts in a range of disciplines.
Economic policy.
Public finance.
Development economics.
Labor economics.
Political economy.
Personnel management.
Economic Policy.
Public Economics.
Development Economics.
Labor Economics.
International Political Economy.
Human Resource Management.