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Network on Regulating for Decent Work |
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The aim of the Regulating for Decent Work (RDW) project is to develop a coherent response to the arguments against labour laws that have dominated employment policy in recent years. It also aims to advance research and policy directions tailored towards making labour market regulation more effective. To this end, it questions whether the goal of improving working life can be advanced through legal regulation, and whether carefully designed labour regulations and enforcement mechanisms, rather than a retreat from labour laws, may be a more promising avenue for future social and economic progress.
RDW is a collaboration between researchers at the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, at Melbourne Law School, and academic and policy institutions from across the world. The project is interdisciplinary and involves researchers from a range of fields including economics, law, sociology and industrial relations. Further information.
If you are conducting research in line with the objectives of the RDW network and would like it to be made available or listed on this site, please let us know.
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Conference on Regulating for decent work: Innovative labour regulation in a turbulent world
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Background and introduction
Conference themes
Programme (final)
Organizing committee
Registration
Please register for the conference until 1 July 2009 (click for the registration form here). Registration is free. Please note that the deadline for submission of abstracts has expired. No further abstracts will be accepted.
Conference papers
Practical information
Background papers
- The Doing Business Indicators: Measurement issues and political implications, Economic and Labour Market Paper 2007/06 (2007), by J. Berg and S. Cazes
- The World Bank's "Employing Workers" Index: Findings and critiques - A review of recent evidence, International Labour Review Vol. 147, Issue 4 (2008), by S. Lee, D. McCann and N. Torm
- Labour market regulation: Motives, measures, effects, Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 21 (2009), by G. Bertola
Contact
For further information, please contact Ms. Carola Nolte
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International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) Study Group |
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The IIRA Study Group was established to develop a coherent response to deregulatory arguments. The objective is to move beyond a superficial dichotomy between regulation and deregulation by advancing research and policy directions that focus on making regulations more effective. The Group's work is tailored towards improving the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for the evaluation of labour market regulations. It also questions how these frameworks can be operationalized to support research on institutional indicators and their relationship to labour market performance.
First Meeting - IIRA World Congress, Sydney, 24 August 2009: Labour market regulations: rationales, indicators and impacts
The Study Group's first meeting was organized in two panels. In the first, the existing theoretical and conceptual frameworks for the measurement and comparison of labour regulations were evaluated and suggestions made for improvements in theory, measurement and evaluation. The second panel was devoted to "country reports" on empirical studies in various national settings. Presentations were made by Miguel Malo (University of Salamanca); Sean Cooney (University of Melbourne) and Richard Mitchell (Monash University); Judy Fudge (University of Victoria); Sara Charlesworth (RMIT University); and Sangheon Lee (International Labour Organization) and Deirdre McCann (University of Aberdeen).
Programme
Presentation summaries/slides:
Call for contributions
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TRAVAIL workshops |
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TRAVAIL has invited leading researchers to the ILO to discuss their research findings and policy implications. They include Giuseppe Bertola (University of Turin), Iain Campbell (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Simon Deakin (University of Cambridge), Francis Green (University of Kent), Arne Kalleberg (University of North Carolina), Kea Tijdens (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Brendan Burchell (University of Cambridge).
Joint workshop on "A missing link: How does flexicurity affect workers' well-beings?"
(19 May 2009)
Joint workshop on "Motives and measurement: towards a new economics of labour regulation"
(28 January 2008)
Joint workshop on "Monitoring employment conditions through workers' surveys"
(26 September 2007)
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Major Publications
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Labour market regulation: Motives, measures, effects; Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 21 (2009), by G. Bertola
Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific (2008), Edited by Sangheon Lee and François Eyraud
The World Bank's "Employing Workers" index: Findings and critiques - A review of recent evidence, International Labour Review Vol. 147, Issue 4 (2008), by S. Lee, D. McCann and N. Torm
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Research repository
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The RDW project aims to highlight and disseminate research that recognizes the value of labor market regulation. To this end, a repository of papers has been created and is now available.
To have work included in the research repository, please contact us.
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Links
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Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, at Melbourne Law School
ILO Economic and Labour Market Analysis Department
ILO Social Dialogue, Labour Law and Labour Administration Department
Contact: TRAVAIL, Tel: +41 22 799 6754, Fax: +41 22 799 8451 or E-mail: travail@ilo.org
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