IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO)

Annual review of working conditions in the EU: 2005­2006 [25 October 2006]
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/htmlfiles/ef0620.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/pubdocs/2006/20/en/1/ef0620en.pdf
[full-text, 100 pages]

Author:
Weiler, Anni

Summary:
This third Annual review of working conditions in the EU: 2005-2005 from the European Working Conditions Observatory examines four key dimensions in working conditions and quality of work and employment: career development and employment security, health and well-being, skills and competences development, and work­life balance. Outlining relevant legislative and policy developments across the Union, it also identifies important trends in the workplace.

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Cornell/ILR School                        
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IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

Comparative Civilian Labor Force Statistics, 10 Countries, 1960-2005 [19 October 2006]
http://www.bls.gov/fls/flscomparelf.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/fls/lfcompendium.pdf
[full-text, 37 pages]

This document presents selected international labor force statistics for
10 countries: the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, and 6 European
countries.  The data are adjusted to approximate U.S. concepts except for
the data in table 3, which are published by the originating country.

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Cornell/ILR School                        
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New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
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IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

Note: The following paper was presented at the Expert meeting on flexicurity strategies and the implications of their adoption at the European level, Lisbon, September 25, 2006.  With the occasion
of  the coming German-Portugal-Slovenian presidentship in the EU, it may be important to review.

Hans Boeckler Stiftung (HBS)


Tangian A.S. (2006)
European flexicurity: concepts (operational definitions), methodology (monitoring instruments), and policies (consistent implementations).
WSI Diskussionspapier 148, Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf, 60 pp.
http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/p_wsi_diskp_148_e.pdf
[full-text, 60 pages]

Abstract:
http://www.boeckler.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3D0AB75D-54D005A6/hbs/hs.xsl/show_product_wsi.html?productfile=HBS-003699.xml
The notion of flexicurity promotes the idea of compensation of labour market deregulation (= flexibilization) with advantages in employment and social security. The paper contains a brief history of the concept and its operational definition. To monitor effects of flexicurity policies in Europe, flexicurity indicators are constructed. The European flexicurity polices are analyzed in the neo-liberal perspective, from the trade-unionist viewpoint, and within the conception of European welfare state. The empirical investigation shows that, contrary to political promises and theoretical considerations, the deregulation of European labour markets is absolutely predominating. A contradiction between several European employment policies is suggested to surmount by introducing a so called flexinsurance, meaning that the employer's contribution to social security should be proportional to the flexibility of the contract/risk of becoming unemployed in conjunction with elements of the basic minimum income model. Constraining the openness of financial markets is also required, otherwise labour markets cannot be kept under control.

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Cornell/ILR School                        
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor             
New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
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IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

International Labour Organization (ILO)

GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT TRENDS FOR YOUTH [27 October 2006]
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/download/gety06en.pdf
[full-text, 58 pages]

[excerpt]
This report adds to growing evidence of a global situation in which young people face
increasing difficulties when entering the labour force. One of the principal findings is that a global
deficit of decent work opportunities has resulted in a situation in which one out of every three youth in
the world is either seeking but unable to find work, has given up the job search entirely or is working
but still living below the US$2 a day poverty line. Without the right foothold from which to start out
right in the labour market, young people are less able to make choices that will improve their own job
prospects and those of their future dependents. This, in turn, perpetuates the cycle of insufficient
education, low-productivity employment and working poverty from one generation to the next. The
report, therefore, adds urgency to the UN call for development of strategies aimed to give young
people a chance to make the most of their productive potential through decent employment.
This report provides empirical research as well as quantitative assessments of the realities of
youth labour markets to build an analytical starting block from which countries can identify the main
challenges facing youth for the process of designing the policies most suited to their particular
situations. At the same time, the data and analyses in the Global Employment Trends for Youth will
strengthen the capacity of the ILO’s programme on youth employment to provide assistance to
countries in developing coherent and coordinated interventions on youth employment that are based
on analytical reviews of labour market information.

For further expansion of the youth employment knowledge base, the need is not one of
developing new indicators, but rather finding a way to make use of the indicators that already exist
(labour force participation rates, employment ratios, unemployment rates, employment by status and
by sector, long-term unemployment, underemployment, hours of work and poverty). The challenge,
however, is that, as of now, many of the labour market indicators listed here cannot be applied to
youth because most countries do not provide the data disaggregated by age. The ILO is intensifying its
efforts to gather the data by age groups. This will help to improve the accuracy and reliability of
labour market analyses within a life-cycle perspective.

Contents
1. Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 1
Why focus on youth? ..............................................................................................................1
How are young people faring in the labour market?................................................................2
Misconceptions concerning youth and youth labour markets..................................................6
Summary and outlook ..............................................................................................................9
2. Labour market trends for youth ..............................................................................................11
2.1 Demographic trends and developments in youth labour force participation..................11
2.2 Trends in youth employment..........................................................................................15
2.3 Trends in youth unemployment ......................................................................................16
2.4 Other labour market indicators for youth .......................................................................20
2.5 Summary........................................................................................................................21
3. Trends in youth poverty and working poverty ........................................................................22
3.1 Measuring youth poverty................................................................................................22
3.2 Going beyond youth poverty to youth working poverty ................................................23
3.3. The need to know more about poverty ...........................................................................26
4. Explaining youth inactivity and labour market vulnerability................................................28
4.1 Explaining youth inactivity ............................................................................................28
4.2 Explaining labour market vulnerability among youth....................................................33
5. The school-to-work transition ..................................................................................................36
5.2 The ILO concept of the school-to-work transition: measuring the transition to “decent work”...........36
5.3 Some preliminary results ...............................................................................................37
5.4 Summary........................................................................................................................43

Annexes
1 Key regional labour market indicators for youth and issues for consideration ............................44
2 Global employment trends ­ regional groupings..........................................................................48
3 Glossary of labour market terms...................................................................................................49
References ............................................................................................................................................51

Tables
Table 2.1: Youth share in total working-age population, 1995 and 2005 ..........................................13
Table 2.2: Development of the youth labour force and youth population between 1995 and 2005 and expected net growth of the youth labour force between 2005 and 2015.................... 13
Table 2.3: Youth labour force participation rates, by sex, 1995 and 2005 .........................................15
Table 2.4: Youth employment and youth employment-to-population ratios ......................................16
Table 2.5: Total youth unemployment, 1995, 2004 and 2005 ...........................................................16
Table 2.6: Ratio of youth-to-adult unemployment rates, 1995 and 2005 ...........................................18
Table 2.7: Youth share in total unemployed and youth share in total working-age population, 1995 and 2005.... 20
Table 3.1: Poverty estimates of undernourished young people (1999-2001) and young people
living on less than US$1 a day and US$2 a day, by region, 2002 .....................................22
Table 3.2: US$1 and US$2 a day working poverty among youth, total numbers and youth working poverty rates ........................26

Table 4.1: Youth inactivity and inactivity rates (1995 and 2005) and female share of total inactive youth (2005) ................28
Table 5.1: Sampling size, reference period and survey coverage .......................................................37
Table 5.2: Distribution of employed youth by type of employment contract .....................................38
Table 5.3: Distribution of youth in transition, by current activity status ............................................39
Table 5.4: Distribution of youth outside of the labour force by reason for inactivity, by sex ............40
Table 5.5: Main obstacles to finding decent work identified by in-transit youth ...............................40
Table 5.6: Transited youth by education level ....................................................................................41
Table 5.7: Most important factors influencing employers’ decisions when hiring young men and women, by type of post (professional/administrative or manual/production) ...................42
Table 5.8: Employers’ preferences of education level when hiring young men and women, by type of post (professional/administrative or manual/production) .................................42
Table 5.10: Employers’ general skills assessment of young job applicants and young workers, by type of skill and overall general preparedness ..............................................................42
Table 5.11: Sampling size, reference period and survey coverage .......................................................43

Figures
Figure 1: What we do and do not know about the global youth labour market ..................................5
Figure 2.1: Regional distribution of the youth population, 2005 and 2015..........................................11
Figure 2.2: Population distribution by child, youth and adult age cohorts, by region, 1995, 2005
and 2015............................................................................................................................12
Figure 2.3: Global youth unemployment and youth unemployment rates, 1995-2005........................17
Figure 2.4: Youth unemployment rates, by region, 1995 and 2005 .....................................................17
Figure 2.5: Distribution of the youth and adult populations by activity status, 2005...........................21
Figure 4.1: Youth inactivity rates and GDP per capita (at PPP), 2005 ................................................29
Figure 4.2: Percentage change in gross enrolment ratios at the tertiary level and the percentage
change in youth inactivity rates, by region, 1990-2002.....................................................30
Figure 4.3: Share of youth neither in employment nor education (NEET) in total youth population,
regional averages ...............................................................................................................33
Figure 4.4: Determining vulnerability among young people ...............................................................35
Figure 5.1: Distribution of youth by current activity status, by sex .....................................................38
Figure 5.2: Distribution of youth by stage of transition .......................................................................39
Figure 5.3: Distribution of educational level of respondents by stage of transition, Egypt
and Nepal ...........................................................................................................................41
Figure 5.4: Employers’ general skills assessment of young job applicants and young workers, by type of skill and overall general preparedness ..............................................................42
Boxes
Box 1: What is youth? .....................................................................................................................2
Box 2: ILO methodology for producing world and regional estimates of labour market indicators.......................6
Box 2.1: Why are youth unemployment rates higher than adult unemployment rates?...................19
Box 2.2: Inequalities in youth labour markets..................................................................................20
Box 3.1: What is poverty? ................................................................................................................23
Box 3.2: What is working poverty?..................................................................................................24
Box 3.3: Young girls and young refugees have the lowest chances to escape poverty....................27

See Press Release
New ILO study says youth unemployment rising, with hundreds of millions more working but living in poverty
Friday 27 October 2006 (ILO/06/48)
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2006/48.htm

GENEVA (ILO News) - The number of unemployed youth aged 15 to 24 rose over the past decade, while hundreds of millions more are working but living in poverty, according to a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO)

AND MORE.....
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****************************************
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Institute for Workplace Studies 
Cornell/ILR School                        
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor             
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# posted by SBasefsky : 11:23 AM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

ILO Bureau of Statistics

New Topic: Household Income and Expenditure Statistics (HIES data)

The ILO Bureau of Statistics has recently added a new series on household income and expenditure and poverty measures to their on-line statistical database LABORSTA Internet.

The new series comprises the following tables that were provided by 57 countries and territories in 2005 (Years covered vary by country and range from 1995 to 2004):

Table 1: Characteristics of Households by Expenditure Class

Table 2: Distribution of Household Expenditure Groups

Table 3: Distribution of Households by Age of Household Head and by Household Size

Table 4: Distribution of Household Income by Source

Table 5: Distribution of Households by Household Size and Sex of Household Head

Table 6: Poverty Line and Income/expenditure Distribution

The ILO�s gathering of these statistics is conducted every 10 years from countries known to have household income and expenditure statistics.

HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATISTICS (HIES data) [October 2006]
http://laborsta.ilo.org/cgi-bin/brokerv8.exe?_debug=0&_service=appsrv1v8&_program=pgm.applpgm.prog2hies.scl


Home page is located at
LABORSTA
http://laborsta.ilo.org/

______________________________
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****************************************
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Institute for Workplace Studies 
Cornell/ILR School                        
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor             
New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
Telephone: (607) 255-2703                
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# posted by SBasefsky : 1:46 PM

IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________

International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) at the ILO

CONFERENCE on DECENT WORK, SOCIAL POLICY, & DEVELOPMENT, 29 November - 1 December 2006
ILO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

Dear colleague,
 
I would like to draw your attention to our upcoming research conference on "Decent Work, Social Policy and Development" that will be held from 29 November to 1 December at ILO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
 
The conference aims at bringing external researchers and research networks to the ILO to exchange ideas and findings, and so strengthen the links between the ILO and the academic community. It will combine broad plenary sessions with more in-depth review of research on two particular topics: (i) the challenges faced by social models in different parts of the world; and (ii) the contribution of global production networks to the local creation of decent work. For more information, please refer to the attached conference note and draft agenda.
 
If you are interested in attending, would you please return the attached registration form to Ms. Sophie Lievre.
 
With best regards, yours sincerely,
 
Gerry Rodgers
Director
International Institute for Labour Studies

See -
CONFERENCE NOTE:

IILS Research Conference
Decent Work, Social Policy and Development
29 November – 1 December 2006
ILO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/coneng.pdf


DRAFT AGENDA at end of this message


REGISTER USING THE FOLLOWING FORM --
Please send this form to lievre@ilo.org or by fax: +41.22.799.8542


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International Institute for Labour Studies

Case postale 6, CH-1211 Genève 22, Switzerland

 

Registration Form

 

IILS Research Conference

Decent Work, Social Policy and Development
29 November – 1 December 2006
PLEASE USE CAPITAL LETTERS OR TYPE/PRINT

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DRAFT AGENDA

IILS Research Conference
Decent Work, Social Policy and Development

29 November – 1 December 2006
ILO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland


Draft Agenda
Tuesday, 28 November 2006

16:00 – 18:00            Registration


Wednesday, 29 November 2006

08:30 – 09:30            Registration

There will be interpretation English / French / Spanish in all sessions.

Morning Session 09:30 – 12:30: in plenary


PLENARY
Room II (R3 – South)

09:30 – 10:00            Welcome / Opening
                          Juan Somavia, Director General, International Labour Office
                          Gerry Rodgers, Director, International Institute for Labour Studies

        Global Production, Social Models and Development Presentations and Q&A
        Keynote Speakers


10:00 – 11:15   José Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

        Gerhard Bosch, Professor of Sociology, Institute for Work and Technology, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

11:15 – 12:30   Gary Gereffi, Professor of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, United States

        Ha-Joon Chang, Assistant Director of Development Studies,
Cambridge University, United Kingdom


Afternoon Session       14:30 – 17:30: the Conference splits into two focus groups


ISSUE FOCUS 1:  Changing Social Models in Europe and Latin America
Room ?? (R? – South)

14:30 – 17:30   National Models’ Responses to Globalization. This session will feature short (15 minute) presentations on selected countries in both regions followed by general comments from discussants.


14:30 – 16:00   Europe
        Sweden
        Dominique Anxo, Växjö University

        Germany
        Steffen Lehndorff, Institute for Work and Technology, Gelsenkirschen

        Southern Europe
        Maria Karamessini, Panteion University, Athens

        Comments and discussion, with the participation of:
        Jelle Visser, University of Amsterdam (invited)


16:00 – 17:30   Latin America
        Chile
        Manuel Riesco, National Center for Alternative Development, Santiago

        Brazil
        Márcio Pochmann, University of Campinas

        Uruguay
        Fernando Filgueira, University of the Republic, Montevideo

        Comments and discussion, with the participation of:
        Guillermo Campero, University of Chile


ISSUE FOCUS 2:  Global Production Networks and the Local Creation of Decent Work
Room ?? (R? – South)
14:30 – 17:30   Short presentations and discussion.
        Challenges for Decent Work in Global Production: Impacts on Employment and Income

                          Trade and GPNs: Implications for labour and wages in
                          developing countries
                          Raphael Kaplinsky, The Open University, United Kingdom

                          Combining global and local forces: The case of labour
                          rights in Cambodia
                          Sandra Polaski, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
                          United States

                          Global producers and their impacts upon national
                          manufacturing capabilities and jobs in Kenya
                          Dorothy McCormick, Institute of Development Studies,
                          University of Nairobi, Kenya

                          The Mexican Maquila model is exhausted? The limits of
                          Industrial upgrading and industrial policy
                          Jorge Carrillo, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana,
                          Mexico

                          Policies for Global Production Networks and
                          Local Decent Work
        
                          The resurgence of industrial development policies:
                          Strengthening national industries and improving the quality and
                          quantity of employment
                          Mario Cimoli, CEPAL

                          Industrial clusters in China: Building local innovative capacity
                          and jobs through global linkages
                          Jici Wang, Department of Geography, Beijing University
                          (invited)

        Four generic models in global production networks: Experience of the semiconductor industry in East Asia
        Dong-Sung Cho, Seoul National University, Rep. of Korea
        
        Comments and discussion, with the participation of:
        Afonso Fleury, Polytechnic School, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

                          Cocktail hosted by the Director of the IILS
 

Thursday, 30 November 2006

Morning Session 09:30 – 12:30: in plenary
                          

PLENARY                  Perspectives on the Research Needs of the
                          Decent Work Agenda
Room II (R3 – South)

09:30 – 12:30   Keynote Speakers:

        Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Centre of Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

                          Renate Hornung-Draus, Director, European and International
        Affairs, Confederation of German Employers

        András Inotai, Director, Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (invited)

        Isabelle Duplessis, Professor of Law, University of Montréal, Canada (invited)

        Evance Kalula, Professor of Law, University of Cape Town, and Director of The Institute of Development and Labour Law, South Africa

        Judith Tendler, Professor of Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States


Afternoon Session       14:30 – 17:30: the Conference splits into two focus groups


ISSUE FOCUS 1:  Changing Social Models in Europe and Latin America
Room ?? (R? – South)

14:30 – 17:30   Reconciling Economic and Social Goals. Session on current issues and debates in both regions, featuring short (15 minute) presentations and discussion.


                          National labour law, social rights and market concerns
                          in Europe
                          Silvana Sciarra, University of Florence, Italy
                          
                          Social rights in the context of labour law reforms
                          in Latin America
                          Adrián O. Goldin, University of San Andrés, Buenos Aires,
                          Argentina

                          Flexibility and labour law in Latin America:
                          Labour market outcomes
                          Adriana Marshall, National Council of Scientific and Technical
                          Research & Institute for Economic and Social Development,
                          Buenos Aires, Argentina

                          Social rights protection in Europe
                          Marc Rigaux, University of Antwerp, Belgium

                          The social dimension of Mercosur
                          Oscar Ermida, University of the Republic, Montevideo,
                          Uruguay

                          Monetary union and the European social model
                          Eloi Laurent, Paris Institute for Political Studies,
                          France (invited)


ISSUE FOCUS 2:  Global Production Networks and the Local Creation of Decent Work
Room ?? (R? – South)

14:30 – 17:30            Short presentations and discussion.
                          Governance and the Role of Social Actors in Promoting
                          Decent Work in GPNs


                          The role of global buyers in upgrading jobs and
                          competitiveness in their supply chain
                          Richard M. Locke, MIT Sloan School of Management,
                          United States

                          The rise of a new divide between global players and
                          national producers
                          Florence Palpacuer, University Montpellier 1 – ISEM, France

                          Indian policies toward the IT sector: The role of employers
                          Shaurab Srivastava, Executive Chairman, Xansa &
                          Chairman Emeritus NASSCOM, India

                          Trade unions using research to improve employment in GPNs
                          Kjeld Jakobsen, Social Observatory, Brazil

                          Organizing women workers in the informal economy  as a strategy for upgrading work in global production chains
                          Martha Chen, Coordinator of the global research policy
                          network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and
                          Organizing (WIEGO)

                          Impact assessment of codes compliance among companies
                          participating in the Ethical Trade Initiative
                          Stephanie Ware Barrientos, Institute of Development Studies,
                          SussexUniversity, United Kingdom


Friday, 1 December 2006

Morning Session 10:00 – 13:00: in plenary
                          


PLENARY
Room II (R3 – South)

10:00 – 13:00            What Way Forward?
                          Keynote Speakers:

                          Roland Schneider, Senior Policy Advisor, Trade Union
                          Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD (invited)

                          José Pastore, Professor of Sociology, University of Sao Paulo,
                          Brazil

                          Marta Novick, Director, Technical Development and Labour
                          Studies, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security,
                          Argentina

        Rachid Filali Meknasi, Professor of Law, University of Rabat, Morocco

                          William Milberg, Professor of Economics, The New School for
                          Social Research, United States

                          Jill Rubery, Professor of Comparative Employment Systems,
                          Manchester Business School, United Kingdom


18 October 2006

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