The objective of this paper is to study equilibrium in a labour market in which identical firms post wage-contracts and ex-ante identical workers search on the job. The main novelty of this paper is to generate dispersion in contract offers by allowing firms to condition their offers on workers’ initial experience and employment status although these characteristics do not affect productivity. ...

Research on family-friendly measures at the workplace reveals that these instruments are the outcome of a long history of struggle, mainly by the women’s movement, with antecedents in social and political thought, as well as in social and political policies and practices. These include feminist debates on marriage and the family, on paid and unpaid work, on careers, on state policies regarding ...

In pre-pandemic times, the labour migration regime in Asia based on principles of enforced transience is largely dependent ease and low cost transnational mobility across national borders. Stalled COVID-19 times has both deepened precarity that transient migrant workers face also laid bare unsustainability temporary for nation-states. At same time, pandemic presents an opportunity to reconfigur...

In the last decade factory owners, in response to brand-name Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) parameters, have joined associations that verify (through a monitoring and audit system) that management does not exploit labour. There have been no reports of violations of codes of conduct concerning Malaysian workers but for foreign workers on contract there are certain areas that have been rep...