Kucera, David (Mr.)

Educational and Professional Background

• Ph.D. in Economics, New School for Social Research, New York City.
• Assistant Director, Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New York City, 1996-1999.

Current Research Interests

• Labour standards and globalization
• Trade and employment
• Statistical indicators and labour standards
• Economics of gender
• Informal employment and labour markets in developing countries

Selected Publications

• “Trade liberalization, employment and inequality in India and South Africa,” International Labour Review, Vol. 150 (2011), No. 1-2 (co-authored with Leanne Roncolato).
• “Measuring progress towards the application of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights: A tabular presentation of the findings of the ILO supervisory system” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 99, 2011 (co.authored with Dora Sari).
• "Trade contraction in the global crisis: Employment and inequality effects in India and South Africa” Employment Sector Working Paper No. 54, 2010 (co-authored with Leanne Roncolato and Erik von Uexkull)
• "Persisting Informal Employment: What Explains It?," in Is Informal Normal? Towards More and Better Jobs in Developing Countries, Johannes Jütting and Juan de Laiglesia (eds.), OECD Development Centre, 2009 (co-authored with Theodora Xenogiani).
• "Women in Informal Employment: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?," in Is Informal Normal? Towards More and Better Jobs in Developing Countries, Johannes Jütting and Juan de Laiglesia (eds.), OECD Development Centre, 2009 (co-authored with Theodora Xenogiani).
• “Informal Employment: Two Contested Policy Issues,” International Labour Review, Vol. 147, No. 4, 2008 (co-authored with Leanne Roncolato).
• In Defense of Labour Market Institutions: Cultivating Justice in the Developing World, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (co-editor with Janine Berg and contributor).
• “Trade Union Rights and Trade Competitiveness: Asia in a Global Context,” in Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific, Sangheon Lee and François Eyraud (eds.), Chandos, 2008.
• “Gender, Informality and Employment Adjustment in Latin America,” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 85, 2008 (co-authored with Rossana Galli).
• Qualitative Indicators of Labour Standards: Comparative Methods and Applications, Springer, 2007 (editor and contributor).
• “Trade Union Rights, Democracy and Exports: A Gravity Model Approach,” Review of International Economics, Vol. 14, No. 5, 2006 (co-authored with Ritash Sarna).
• “Labour Developments in Dynamic Asia: What Do the Data Show?,” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 61, 2005 (co-authored with Anne Chataignier).
• “Core Labor Standards and Economic Development,” Labor History, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2004.
• “Child Labour, Education and Export Performance,” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 52, 2004 (co-authored with Ritash Sarna).
• “Measuring Trade Union Rights: A Country-level Indicator Constructed from Coding Textual Sources,” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 50, 2004.
• “How Do Trade Union Rights Affect Trade Competitiveness?,” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 39, 2004 (co-authored with Ritash Sarna).
• “Labor Standards and Informal Employment in Latin America,” World Development, Vol. 32, No. 5, 2004 (co-authored with Rossana Galli).
• “Deindustrialization and Changes in Manufacturing Trade: Factor Content Calculations for 1978-1995,” Review of World Economics, Vol. 139, No. 4, 2003 (co-authored with William Milberg).
• “Informal Employment in Latin America: Movements Over Business Cycles and the Effects of Worker Rights,” IILS Working Paper No. 145, 2003 (co-authored with Rossana Galli).
• “Core Labour Standards and Foreign Direct Investment,” International Labour Review, Vol. 141, Nos. 1-2, 2002 (reprinted in The WTO and Labor And Employment, Drusilla Brown and Robert Stern (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2007).
• “The Effects of Wealth and Gender Inequality on Economic Growth: A Survey of Recent Empirical Studies,” IILS Working Paper No. 136, 2002.
• “Trade and the Loss of Manufacturing Jobs in the OECD: New Factor Content Calculations for 1978-1995,” IILS Working Paper No. 135, 2002 (co-authored with William Milberg).
• “The Effects of Core Worker Rights on Labour Costs and Foreign Direct Investment: Evaluating the ‘Conventional Wisdom’,” IILS Working Paper No. 130, 2001.
• Gender, Growth and Trade: The Miracle Economies of the Postwar Years, Routledge, 2001.
• “Foreign Trade of Manufactures and Men and Women's Employment and Earnings in Germany and Japan,” International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2001.
• “Labor-Management Relations in Twentieth-Century Japan: A Review Essay,” International Labor and Working Class History, No. 58, 2001.
• “Decent Work and Rights at Work: New Measures of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining,” in The ILO and the Social Challenges of the 21st Century, Roger Blainpain and Chris Engels (eds.), Kluwer, 2001.
• “Measuring Fundamental Rights at Work,” Bulletin of Japan Statistics Research Institute, No. 27, 2001 (in Japanese); Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Vol. 18, Nos. 2,3, 2001.
• “Gender Segregation and Gender Bias in Manufacturing Trade Expansion: Revisiting the ‘Wood Asymmetry,’” World Development, Vol. 28, No. 7, 2000 (co-authored with William Milberg; reprinted in The Feminist Economics of Trade, Routledge, 2007, Irene Van Staveren et al. (eds.)).