Discussion papers

2009

2008

2007

• 185: Corporate social responsibility in multinational companies: Management initiatives or negotiated agreements? - (pdf, 370 KB)
  by Tony Edwards, Paul Marginson, Paul Edwards, Anthony Ferner, Olga Tregaskis
• 184: Explaining non-compliance with labour legislation in Latin America: A cross-country analysis – (pdf, 370 KB)
  by Adriana Marshall
• 183: Issues in the analysis of global value chains and their impact on employment and incomes in India – (pdf, 396 KB)
  by Dev Nathan and V. Kalpana
• 182: Gouvernance, droit international et responsabilité sociétale des entreprises – (pdf, 938 KB)
  by Jean-Claude Javillier
• 181: La efectividad de la legislación laboral en América Latina– (pdf, 565 KB)
  by Graciela Bensusán
• 180: Labour law: A Southern African perspective– (pdf, 736 KB)
  by Colin Fenwick, Evance Kalula and Ingrid Landau
• 179: Trade liberalization, labour law, and development: A contextualization – (pdf, 938 KB)
  by Adelle Blackett
• 178: Globalization, the impact of trade liberalization, and labour law: The case of South Africa – (pdf, 349 KB)
  by Jan Theron, Shane Godfrey and Margareet Visser
• 177: L’effectivité du droit du travail et l’aspiration au travail décent dans les pays en développement: une grille d’analyse – (pdf, 444 KB)
  by Rachid Filali Meknassi
• 176: Labour laws in South Asia: The need for an inclusive approach – (pdf, 343 KB)
  by Kamala Sankaran
• 175: The quest for a fair globalization three years on – (pdf, 507 KB)
  by Hamish Jenkins, Eddy Lee and Gerry Rodgers
• 174: The Southern European social model: Changes and continuities in recent decades – (pdf, 465 KB)
  by Maria Karamessini
• 173: Los derechos sociales en el marco de las reformas laborales en América Latina – (pdf, 317 KB)
  by Adrián Goldin
• 172: Using the social capital of nationals abroad as a strategy for development in the IT sector – (pdf, 455 KB)
  by Eric A. Charest
• 170: Employment in the development agenda: Economic and social policies – (pdf, 320 KB)
  by T. S. Papola
• 169: Transstate Social Spaces and Development: Exploring the Changing Balance between Communities, States and Markets – (pdf, 354 KB)
  by Thomas Faist




2006

• 168: Policy concertation in Europe: Explaining government choice – (pdf, 395 KB)
  by Lucio Baccaro, Marco Simoni
• 167: Migration, the diaspora and development: The case of Mexico – (pdf, 343 KB)
  by Agustín Escobar Latapí , Eric Janssen
• 166: Socially sustainable development and participatory governance: legal and political aspects – (pdf, 489 KB)
  by Konstantinos Papadakis
• 165: GATS, Migration, and Labor Standards – (pdf, 530 KB)
  by Philip L. Martin
• 164: Participatory governance and citizen action in post-apartheid South Africa – (pdf, 419 KB)
  by Steven Friedman
• 163: The law and governance debate in the European Union – (pdf, 575 KB)
  by Alexandra Gatto
• 162: Social pacts as coalitions of ‘weak’ and ‘moderate’: Ireland, Italy and South Korea in comparative perspective South Africa – (pdf, 418 KB)
  by Lucio Baccaro, Sang-Hoon Lim




2005

• 160: Institutional determinants of unemployment in OECD countries: A time series cross-section analysis (1960-98) – (pdf, 504 KB)
  by Lucio Baccaro, Diego Rei
• 158: Merchants of labor: Agents of the evolving migration infrastructure – (pdf, 529 KB)
  by Philip Martin
• 157: Exploring the links of multidiscrimination: Considering Britain and India and citizen action in post-apartheid South Africa – (pdf, 542 KB)
  by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura




2004

• 156: Social partnership and local development in Ireland: The limits to deliberation– (pdf, 415 KB)
  by Paul Teague, Mary C. Murphy
• 155: Partnerships for development: Studies on Territorial Employment Pacts in Italy – (pdf, 390 KB)
  by Ludovica Gambaro, Simona Milio, Marco Simoni
• 154: The Irish social partnership and the “celtic tiger” phenomenon – (pdf, 739 KB)
  by Lucio Baccaro, Marco Simoni
• 153: Migration and development: Toward sustainable solutions – (pdf, 347 KB)
  by Philip L. Martin
• 151: Quality of women’s employment: A focus on the South– (pdf, 307 KB)
  by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
• 150: Business strategies of informal micro-entrepreneurs in Lima, Peru Africa – (pdf, 311 KB)
  by Valentina Zuin




2003

• 146: Wage inequality and the labour market in Argentina: Labour institutions, supply and demand in the period 1980-99 – (pdf, 331 KB)
  by Sebastián Waisgrais
• 145: Informal employment in Latin America: Movements over business cycles and the effects of worker rights – (pdf, 713 KB)
  by Rossana Galli and David Kucera




2002

• 143: What is dead and what is alive in the theory of corporatism – (pdf, 273 KB)
  by Lucio Baccaro
• 140: Do labour market institutions matter in transition economies? An analysis of labour market flexibility in the late nineties– (pdf, 655 KB)
  by Sandrine Cazes
• 138: Civil society meets the State: A model of associational democracy– (pdf, 338 KB)
  by Lucio Baccaro
• 137: The Open Method of Co-ordination: A supranational form of governance? – (pdf, 472 KB)
  by Sabrina Régent
• 136: The effects of wealth and gender inequality on economic growth: A survey of recent empirical studies – (pdf, 351 KB)
  by David Kucera
• 135: Trade and the loss of manufacturing jobs in the OECD: New factor content calculations for 1978-1995 – (pdf, 1045 KB)
  by David Kucera and William Milberg
• 134: Desigualdad salarial y mercado de trabajo en Argentina: Instituciones, oferta y demanda laboral en el período 1980-1999 – (pdf, 700 KB)
  by Sebastian Waisgrais




2001

• 130: The effects of core workers rights on labour costs and foreign direct investment: Evaluating the “conventional wisdom” – (pdf, 421 KB)
  by David Kucera
• 129: On the edge of corporatism: The role of the Swedish women’s associations in promoting Decent Work – (pdf, 196 KB)
  by Yeong-Soon Kim
• 128: The Economic Impact of Child Labour – (pdf, 258 KB)
  by Rossana Galli
• 127: Civil Society, NGOs, and Decent Work Policies: Sorting out the Issues – (pdf, 593 KB)
  by Lucio Baccaro