Unemployment levels are on the rise nearly everywhere, and the rate is particularly high among young people. If this trend is not reversed, the potential long-term economic and social damage is incalculable. For this reason a particular urgency attended an international conference on the subject held in March 2009 at the Marco Biagi Foundation in Modena, Italy, in the course of which specialists in labour law, human resources management, labour economics, sociology, education, and statistics met to present and compare research. This issue of the Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations includes a selection of the papers presented at that conference. Although the selected essays present findings on specific issues in particular countries, the general applicability at the global level is evident. Assessing measures taken to deal with youth unemployment in thirteen countries (Italy, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Israel, Nigeria, the United States, China, and Singapore), twenty-five leading authorities describe and analyse such aspects of the problem as the following:  vocational education and training;  quality of employment as well as quantity;  links between educational institutions and local, national and international enterprises;  consultation and co-operation between employers' associations and trade unions;  job security vs. employment security;  funding for postgraduate programmes, internships, and on-the-job vocational training;  career development for future managers;  safeguards for workers in a framework of flexibility;  labour market pressure from unskilled immigrant workers;  'earn-as-you-learn' schemes;  work in the informal economy; and  the rationale behind the phasing out of passive labour market measures for school leavers such as unemployment benefit. Admirably fulfilling the need for a critical analysis of today's increasing rate of youth unemployment with a comparative and interdisciplinary approach - and highlighting in particular the growing mismatch between the expectations of graduates and what the labour market is actually able to deliver - the research papers in this volume provide invaluable indicators for labour lawyers, educators, and policymakers seeking to address this issue in their specific regional and national contexts.

Labour Productivity, Investment in Human Capital and Youth Employment: Comparative Developments and Global Responses (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, 73)

Business & Money

Roger Blanpain

W Bromwich

O. Rymkevich

Silvia Spattini

Economics

Kluwer Law International

Now that the economic orthodoxy of "light-touch" regulation has been widely discredited by recent events in the financial markets, and shareholder-oriented management has come under intense scrutiny, it is time to seriously consider the merits of stakeholder-oriented economies. In this far-reaching symposium on this aspect of comparative labor relations, 35 scholars examine case studies and evolving scenarios in a wide variety of countries, from leading economic powers such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany to post-socialist states such as Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria to the formidable global economic presences of Brazil, Russia, and India. With contributions from leading experts from all around the world in the fields of labor law, industrial relations, labor economics, labor statistics, human resources management, organization theory and other related subjects, the papers focus on the impact of the global economic crisis and its implications for the future of employment. Specific contexts covered include: adversarial versus strategic collective bargaining, transnational collective bargaining, long-term employees as the most valuable corporate stakeholders, workers' voice and participation in the restructuring of undertakings, privatization of state-owned companies, executive pay, investment in vocational training in times of economic crisis, the impact of the EU's Cross-Border Merger Directive, inherent dangers in the EMU one-size-fits-all monetary policy; and, cases of large-scale corporate fraud.Of particular interest is the treatment of important developments in Singapore and Nigeria, as well as lessons to be learned from pitfalls encountered in South Africa and other countries. With its theoretical arguments and empirical data, this volume is certainly a major contribution to the debate over whether shareholder or stakeholder approaches to management yield the best results in terms of employment outcomes. As the world economic crisis continues to take its toll on employment, pension funds, public services, and living standards, the book is sure to find a wide audience among policymakers and lawyers worldwide concerned with the future of employment relations and their effect on both productivity and social stability. This volume includes a selection of papers from the Eighth International Conference in commemoration of Marco Biagi held at the Marco Biagi Foundation in Modena, Italy in March 2010.

Rethinking Corporate Governance: From Shareholder Value to Stakeholder Value (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations Series) (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, 77)

Iacopo Senatori

About this book: Improving Workplace Quality casts light on the most recent developments in the field of worker well-being with contributions from a number of disciplinary domains (law, economics, organization theory, sociology, etc.). A consensus has developed in workplace studies around the concept of well-being at work in an awareness that such apparently distinct aspects as health and safety, discrimination, labour market integration, and work-life balance converge in the workplace and are best treated as one complex phenomenon. This important book provides an in-depth analysis of ongoing changes in the world of work and their impact on personal well-being. The contributors place specific workplace experiences in a comparative perspective, examining policy and regulatory initiatives and judicial rulings at national, regional, and international levels. What s in this book: This book offers twelve contributions by distinguished international scholars from a range of disciplinary domains the case studies are drawn from Italy, France, the United States, Russia, and other developing countries. The essays examine recent legal developments in such topical issues as:atypical and non-standard workchildcare leavecompany-level welfare provisionsdisabilityharassmentlow-wage workers and employment benefitsmisperception discriminationpublic policy in care servicesunemployment and mental health; and work/family conciliation policies. How this will help you: This book covers an increasingly popular topic from various perspectives providing a detailed overview of recent developments in policy and jurisprudence regarding discrimination, work-life balance, and workers integration into the labour market as well as a guide to best practices in promoting well-being at work. As a stimulus for further reflection in relation to innovative measures in the field of worker well-being, this book proves indispensable to labour and employment law practitioners, as well as to work organization, occupational medicine, mental health, and human resources professionals.

Improving Workplace Quality: New Pespectives and Challenges for Worker Well-Being (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

Olga Rymkevich

Foreign & International Law

Wolters Kluwer

Improving Workplace Quality: New Pespectives and Challenges for Worker Well-Being: New Perspectives and Challenges for Worker Well-Being (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations Series)

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