scholarly journals The Dilemma of Gender Equality: How Labor Market Regulation Divides Women by Class

Daedalus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Torben Iversen ◽  
Frances McCall Rosenbluth ◽  
Øyvind Skorge
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
Gendered Roles ◽  
European Labor Markets

Women shoulder a heavier burden of family work than men in modern society, preventing them from matching male success in the external labor market. Limiting working hours is a plausible way to level the playing field by creating the possibility of less gendered roles for both sexes. But why then are heavily regulated European labor markets associated with a smaller share of women in top management positions compared with liberal market economies such as in the United States? We explain this puzzle with reference to the difficulty of ambitious women to signal their commitment to high-powered careers in regulated markets.

scholarly journals Age Discrimination and Early Retirement Policies: A Comparison of Labor Market Regulation in Canada and the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
C T Gillin ◽  
Thomas R Klassen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Age Discrimination ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Labor Market Regulation ◽  
Retirement Policies

Age Discrimination and Early Retirement Policies: A Comparison of Labor Market Regulation in Canada and the United States

scholarly journals Informal employment in Ukraine and formation of institutional conditions of its minimization

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-55
Author(s):  
Yaryna Yuryk ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Informal Employment ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Informal Labor ◽  
Hired Labor ◽  
The Individual

The article presents the results of the study on the structure and scale of spread of informal employment in Ukrainian labor market. Based on the analysis of the received estimates, the author makes a social and economic profile of the average worker involved in informal labor relations. The peculiarity of the study is that all estimates are considered separately for hired labor and self-employment, which allows to identify the internal heterogeneity of the structure of informal employment in Ukraine. According to the results of the econometric modeling, the main socio-economic, demographic, settlement, professional and sectoral factors that determine the involvement of the individual in informal employment in Ukraine are identified. Described the basics of legal regulation of labor relations as a formal institution influencing the dynamics of informal employment. Established the relationship between the level of flexibility in the regulation of the labor market in the country and the extent of informal employment among its population. It has been shown that in economies with flexible regulation, as a rule, informal employment is lower. Based on assessments and analysis of the flexibility of labor market regulation in Ukraine by such components as hiring, working hours and staff reductions (rules and costs), bottlenecks in the national legislation have been identified that can cause increased informal employment, which in turn helped determine the main institutional conditions for its minimization.

scholarly journals Age Discrimination and Early Retirement Policies: A Comparison of Labor Market Regulation in Canada and the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
C T Gillin ◽  
Thomas R Klassen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Age Discrimination ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Labor Market Regulation ◽  
Retirement Policies

Age Discrimination and Early Retirement Policies: A Comparison of Labor Market Regulation in Canada and the United States

scholarly journals Extraterritorial Reference of China’s Labor Market Flexibility Adjustment

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. p21
Author(s):  
Gao Fuxia ◽  
Xu Xinpeng ◽  
Huang Yunning ◽  
Luo Lina
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Labor Policies ◽  
Employment Pattern ◽  
Labor Market Flexibility ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Platform Economy

China’s labor market is facing a policy and legal dilemma of balanced flexibility and security adjustment. Under the condition of the continuous development of new economic conditions such as sharing economy and platform economy, the new employment pattern of the labor market presents new challenges to the current legal system. It is of great significance to optimize and perfect China’s existing labor policies and regulations by studying the experience of representative countries such as the United States, Japan, and Germany in labor market regulation and drawing on their scientific adjustment model.

scholarly journals Informal employment in Ukraine and formation of institutional conditions of its minimization

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-59
Author(s):  
Yaryna Yuryk ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Informal Employment ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Informal Labor ◽  
Hired Labor ◽  
The Individual

The article presents the results of the study on the structure and scale of spread of informal employment in Ukrainian labor market. Based on the analysis of the received estimates, the author makes a social and economic profile of the average worker involved in informal labor relations. The peculiarity of the study is that all estimates are considered separately for hired labor and self-employment, which allows to identify the internal heterogeneity of the structure of informal employment in Ukraine. According to the results of the econometric modeling, the main socio-economic, demographic, settlement, professional and sectoral factors that determine the involvement of the individual in informal employment in Ukraine are identified. Described the basics of legal regulation of labor relations as a formal institution influencing the dynamics of informal employment. Established the relationship between the level of flexibility in the regulation of the labor market in the country and the extent of informal employment among its population. It has been shown that in economies with flexible regulation, as a rule, informal employment is lower. Based on assessments and analysis of the flexibility of labor market regulation in Ukraine by such components as hiring, working hours and staff reductions (rules and costs), bottlenecks in the national legislation have been identified that can cause increased informal employment, which in turn helped determine the main institutional conditions for its minimization.

Time’s Up! Shorter Hours, Public Policy, and Time Flexibility as an Antidote to Youth Unemployment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Eva Maich ◽  
Jamie K. McCallum ◽  
Ari Grant-Sasson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Hours Of Work ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Work Scheduling

This chapter explores the relationship between hours of work and unemployment. When it comes to time spent working in the United States at present, two problems immediately come to light. First, an asymmetrical distribution of working time persists, with some people overworked and others underemployed. Second, hours are increasingly unstable; precarious on-call work scheduling and gig economy–style employment relationships are the canaries in the coal mine of a labor market that produces fewer and fewer stable jobs. It is possible that some kind of shorter hours movement, especially one that places an emphasis on young workers, has the potential to address these problems. Some policies and processes are already in place to transition into a shorter hours economy right now even if those possibilities are mediated by an anti-worker political administration.

Precarious Work and Young Workers in the United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arne L. Kalleberg
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Severe Problem ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Us ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
And Training

This chapter discusses how the growth of precarious work and the polarization of the US labor market have produced major problems for the employment experiences of young workers. A prominent indicator of young workers’ difficulties in the labor market has been the sharp increase in their unemployment rates since the Great Recession. Another, equally if not more severe, problem faced by young workers today is the relatively low quality of the jobs that they were able to get. Other problems include the exclusion of young workers from the labor market and from education and training opportunities; the inability to find jobs that utilize their education, training, and skills; and the inability to obtain jobs that provide them with an opportunity to get a foothold in a career that would lead to progressively better jobs and thus be able to construct career narratives.

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