{"title":"Gender, family status and health characteristics: Understanding retirement inequalities in the Chilean pension model","authors":"Marcela PARADA-CONTZEN","doi":"10.1111/ilr.12365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12365","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper aims to measure the impact of life-cycle events on accumulated retirement savings within the context of a retirement system with mandatory individual savings accounts. Taking into account the impact of lifetime events through multiple channels, the author presents a set of correlated equations that capture labour market behaviour, portfolio and savings decisions, risk preferences, and family and health characteristics, using data from an iconic Chilean experiment. The findings indicate that a woman located in the middle of the wealth distribution who is married with two children, and who suffers a health shock in the last ten years of her working life cycle, accumulates less wealth than her counterpart.</p>","PeriodicalId":47216,"journal":{"name":"International Labour Review","volume":"162 2","pages":"271-303"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50124205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammad Amir ANWAR, Jack ONG'IRO ODEO, Elly OTIENO
{"title":"“There is no future in it”: Pandemic and ride-hailing hustle in Africa","authors":"Mohammad Amir ANWAR, Jack ONG'IRO ODEO, Elly OTIENO","doi":"10.1111/ilr.12364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12364","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ride-hailing drivers in Africa. It argues that, although ride-hailing offers paid work to some African workers, the commodified and informalized nature of this work results in poor job quality, the effects of which were greatly amplified during the pandemic. Drawing on a mixed methods approach involving in-depth interviews with ride-hailing drivers in Nairobi and digital ethnography, it also provides accounts of drivers' hustles to demonstrate strategies of resilience, reworking and resistance among informal workers. The article concludes by highlighting the need for adequate regulatory frameworks and on-the-ground solidarity networks to ensure decent working conditions, and to push back against precarity in the gig economy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47216,"journal":{"name":"International Labour Review","volume":"162 1","pages":"23-44"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ilr.12364","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50140601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucas RONCONI, Ravi KANBUR, Santiago LÓPEZ-CARIBONI
{"title":"Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? Revisiting the insider–outsider theory*","authors":"Lucas RONCONI, Ravi KANBUR, Santiago LÓPEZ-CARIBONI","doi":"10.1111/ilr.12363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12363","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The “insider–outsider” perspective, which dominates the discourse on labour regulations, argues that protective regulations hurt the less well-off outsiders but are kept in place in the interests of the insiders, who are covered by the regulations. Thus, if the insider–outsider divide were as depicted in the standard representation, outsiders would be strongly against regulations. Our evidence that a large majority of outsiders in developing countries in fact support protective labour regulations calls for a rethink of the sharp insider–outsider divide. We suggest a number of avenues for exploration, including income-sharing, transitions, fairness and employer power in labour markets.</p>","PeriodicalId":47216,"journal":{"name":"International Labour Review","volume":"162 2","pages":"223-243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50128723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issue Information – TOC","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ilr.12218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12218","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47216,"journal":{"name":"International Labour Review","volume":"161 1","pages":"i-iv"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ilr.12218","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137714429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19 in Latin America: The effects of an unprecedented crisis on employment and income","authors":"Luis BECCARIA, Fabio BERTRANOU, Roxana MAURIZIO","doi":"10.1111/ilr.12361","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ilr.12361","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In 2020, Latin America was gripped by an unprecedented labour crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article analyses the pandemic's impact on employment and income dynamics, and the policies implemented by the countries in the region. Findings point to a severe contraction in employment, working hours and income in consequence of the sharp decline in economic activity. These impacts have fostered inequalities, and the pathway to recovery is widening employment and income gaps between different population groups.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47216,"journal":{"name":"International Labour Review","volume":"161 1","pages":"83-105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ilr.12361","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75672132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social partner participation in the management of the COVID-19 crisis: Tripartite social dialogue in Italy, Portugal and Spain","authors":"Sergio CANALDA CRIADO","doi":"10.1111/ilr.12362","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ilr.12362","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article analyses actual social dialogue experiences in Italy, Portugal and Spain in order to examine the social partners’ participation in COVID-19 crisis management. It considers the economic and political variables that have helped revitalize tripartism in all three countries relative to the previous economic crisis. The lack of austerity policies and responsibility-sharing on the part of the social partners and governments paved the way for various agreements that, though differing in content and scope, attest to stronger peak-level tripartite dialogue.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47216,"journal":{"name":"International Labour Review","volume":"161 1","pages":"149-167"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ilr.12362","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72729198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information and avoidance behaviour: The effect of air pollution disclosure on labour supply in China","authors":"Yu SHEN, Wenkai SUN","doi":"10.1111/ilr.12360","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ilr.12360","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although many studies have documented the negative impact of pollution on labour supply, few have investigated how it is affected by pollution information disclosure. This article analyses the question by using the exogenous shock of the launch of China's air pollution information disclosure programme. By using the difference-in-differences method and survey data for migrant workers, the authors find that such disclosure significantly decreased the working hours of outdoor workers. These findings highlight the importance of information disclosure, which could result in changes in workers' behaviour. Moreover, they indicate that measuring the cost of pollution without addressing the problem of information asymmetry may lead to bias.</p>","PeriodicalId":47216,"journal":{"name":"International Labour Review","volume":"162 4","pages":"665-686"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79827881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting the stepping-stone hypothesis: Transitions from temporary to permanent contracts in Peru*","authors":"Miguel JARAMILLO BAANANTE, Daniela CAMPOS UGAZ","doi":"10.1111/ilr.12359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12359","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study seeks to gauge the extent to which temporary contracts function as stepping stones to permanent contracts and to distinguish intrafirm from interfirm contract conversions. Using 2012–2016 data from a Peruvian matched employer–employee database, the authors propose several measures of contract conversion and estimate duration models. Their findings show that only 7 per cent of fixed-term contracts are converted and that about half of the conversions occur in the same firm.</p>","PeriodicalId":47216,"journal":{"name":"International Labour Review","volume":"162 2","pages":"199-221"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50122092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical perspectives on the International Labour Review 1921–2021: A century of research on the world of work†","authors":"Dorothea HOEHTKER","doi":"10.1111/ilr.12358","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ilr.12358","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the history of the <i>International Labour Review</i> (ILR), which was created in 1921, based on the provisions of Article 396 of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, as a major periodical publication of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The article reviews, from various perspectives, the ILR's transformation from an institutional multipurpose periodical to today's modern academic journal, including its institutional journey, the role of the editors in charge and the professional and academic profiles of the ILR's authors. It studies the ILR's contribution to important academic and policy debates and its role for the ILO by examining from a historical perspective the contents, topics and geographical focus of the almost 3,000 signed articles published to date.</p>","PeriodicalId":47216,"journal":{"name":"International Labour Review","volume":"161 4","pages":"e12-e48"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91394833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}