Labour Productivity and Flexibility

✍ Scribed by Edward J. Amadeo, Susan Horton (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is about two polemical issues in labour studies, namely, the notions and determinants of labour productivity and flexibility. This book attempts to develop the notion of labour input flexibility or the capacity of workers to adapt to changes in the environment and its relation with labour productivity. The role of institutions, employment practices, capital-labour relations and labour market policies in determining labour flexibility is emphasized. The chapters look at the experiences of industrialized countries (European countries, the USA, Canada and Japan) and three Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile and Mexico).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Labour Flexibility and Productivity: An Overview....Pages 1-35
Brazil: Labour Market Flexibility and Productivity, with Many Poor Jobs....Pages 37-64
Labour Flexibility: The Case of Chile....Pages 65-112
The Paradox of Flexibility and Rigidity: The Mexican Labour Market in the 1990s....Pages 113-150
Labour Flexibility and Productivity in Canada: Markets, Institutions and Skills....Pages 151-183
Labour Market Flexibility in the European Union....Pages 185-223
Labour Flexibility and Productivity in Japan....Pages 225-253
Quantitative Flexibility in the US Labour Market....Pages 255-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-301

✦ Subjects

Labor Economics