Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Thorat, Sukhadeo / Madheswaran, S. / Vani, B. P., Scheduled Castes in the Indian Labour Market: Employment Discrimination and Its Impact on Poverty. 324 pp. 2023:1 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <687-134>
ISBN 978-0-19-887225-2 hard ¥23,920.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00 *

This study offers insight into the discriminatory workings of the labour market and its unequal outcomes with respect to employment, wages, and occupations, and its impact on the poverty of Scheduled Caste wage workers in India. It develops an understanding of the persistence of caste inequality in employment, wages, and occupations between the Scheduled Caste and the higher castes in the private and public sectors in India. It also identifies the causes of high unemployment and low wages of the Scheduled Caste workers, and their segregation in low-paid occupations. The authors provide convincing empirical evidence ofdiscrimination in wages and its impact on reduced wage incomes and increase in the poverty of the Scheduled Caste wage workers. Estimation of discrimination in employment, unemployment, and occupation, and its impact on income and poverty of the Scheduled Caste is net addition to the existing knowledge on the subject.

雇用者の関与－積極的労働市場政策を機能させる
Ingold, Jo / McGurk, Patrick (eds.), Employer Engagement: Making Active Labour Market Policies Work. 256 pp. 2023:2 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <687-174>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2299-9 hard ¥26,222.- (税込) GB￡ 90.99 *

Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work to move into employment through a range of interventions including job search, preparation, training and in-work support and development. While policies, programmes and scholarship predominantly focus on jobseekers' engagement with these initiatives, this book is the first text to shed light on the employer's perspective. Bringing together renowned scholars from social and public policy and human resource management, the book draws on empirical research, comparative case studies and real-life examples from practice, providing a comprehensive analysis of this under-explored issue. This go-to resource will inform HRM and public policy scholarship and promote collaborations between the disciplines.

アイルランドにおける「福祉から就労へ」の市場化
McGann, Michael, The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street-Level. (Policy Press Shorts Research) 152 pp. 2023:3 (Policy Pr., UK) <687-175>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6705-5 hard ¥12,969.- (税込) GB￡ 45.00 *

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work in Ireland. It offers Ireland's introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates in social and public policy about the role of market governance in intensifying the turn towards more regulatory and conditional welfare models on the ground. It draws on unprecedented access to, and extensive survey and interview research with, frontline employment services staff, combined with in-depth interviews with policy officials, organisational managers and jobseekers participating in activation.

Wozniak-Jechorek, Beata / Marchewka-Bartkowiak, K. (eds.), Digital Labour Markets in Central and Eastern European Countries: COVID-19 and the Future of Work. (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics) 296 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-177>
ISBN 978-1-03-235411-8 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-235412-5 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on changing labour markets and accelerating digitalisation of the workplace in Central and Eastern Europe. It provides an innovative and enriching take on the work experience from the pandemic times and discusses the challenges of ongoing changes in labour markets and workplaces in a way that is not covered by the extant literature.The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and digitalisation on labour market outcomes is analysed throughout 12 chapters, by 34 labour market experts from various CEE countries. Most chapters are based on empirical methods yet are presented in an easy-to-follow way to make the book also accessible for a non-scientific audience. The volume addresses the three key goals:to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the adoption of workplace digitalisation in the selected labour markets in CEE countries and the potential trade-offs facing those who do and do not have access to this benefitto complement the labour market research by incorporating the outputs of changing demand for skillsto contribute new insight into policies and regulations that govern the future of workThe book argues that the recent COVID-19 pandemic was a sombre reminder of the relevance and necessity of digital technology for a variety of sectors and market activities. It concludes that to downside the risks of vanishing jobs, as well as to minimise the threats and maximise the opportunities of digitalisation in CEE countries, labour market partners need to consider an effective governance tool in terms of inclusive access to the digital environment, re-skilling, and balanced regulations of the more problematic facets of digital work.The book will be of interest to postgraduate researchers and academics in the fields of labour economics, regional economics, and macroeconomics. Additionally, due to the broader policy implications of the topic, the book will appeal to policymakers and experts interested in labour economics.The Introduction, Chapters 4 and 12 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Bessy, Christian / Didry, Claude (dir.), L'economie est une science reflexive: chomage, convention et capacite dans l'oeuvre de Robert Salais. (Sciences sociales. Capitalismes, ethique, institutions) 2022:9 (Pr. U. du Septentrion, FR) <687-107>
ISBN 978-2-7574-3686-8 paper ¥6,077.- (税込) EUR 25.00 *

発展途上国におけるインフォーマル労働と生計の変容
Fields, Gary S. / Gindling, T. H. / Sen, K. et al. (eds.), The Job Ladder: Transforming Informal Work and Livelihoods in Developing Countries. (WIDER Studies in Development Economics) 352 pp. 2023:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <687-124>
ISBN 978-0-19-286733-9 hard ¥23,920.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00 *

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Based on studies of a range of countries in the Global South, this book examines heterogeneity within informal work by applying a common conceptual framework and empirical methodology. The country studies use panel data to study the dynamics of worker transitions between formal and heterogeneous informal work and present a comparative perspective across developing countries in Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and North Africa and the Middle East. Each study provides a nuanced view of informality, dividing workers into six work statuses: formal wage-employees, upper-tier informal wage-employees, lower-tier informal wage employees, formal self-employed, and upper-tier informal self-employed. Based on this common conceptual framework, the country studies examine the distribution of workers across each of these work statuses, and document transition patterns across different formality and work statuses. The panel data analysed in each country study provide a basis for making statements about labour market transitions that are not warranted when using comparable cross-sections. The studies also examine the individual- and household-level characteristics associated with workers in each work status. Using these characteristics, each study constructs a 'job ladder' that ranks each work status, and then examines the characteristics of workers that are associated with transitions up (and down) the job ladder.