The international discussion on the changing nature of jobs and employment is taking place on many levels. The table here contains a number of institutional reports, research papers and other sources that The Broker’s editors have found useful in preparing the Employment Dossier. We hope that this overview can help you dig deeper into the subject.
The list is divided in three categories: 1) International organizations and institutional reports, 2) Research papers, and 3) Other sources such as media and organizations.
Table 1. International organizations and institutional reports
Table 2. Research papers
| Title | Author/Institution | Year |
| Global Labour Column | Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development (CSID) research programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa | 2009-2013 |
| How Has The Globalization of Labor Affected the Labor Income Share in Advanced Countries | Jaumotte, F. and I. Tytell | 2007 |
| Demographic shifts transform the global workforce | C. Buck Luce (EY) | 2011 |
| Capital’s Grabbing Hand? A Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Analysis of the Decline of the Labour Share | Bessanini, A. and T. Manfredi | 2012 |
| Capital Account Openness’ and the Labour Share Income, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 31, n.3 , 423-443 | Jayadev, A | 2007 |
| The declining Labor Share of Income (pdf), Human development Reports Research paper 2010/36, New York, UNDP | Rodriguez and Jayadev | 2010 |
| How the New Poverty Agenda Neglected Social and Employment Policies in Africa
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development, 11:1, pp. 37 – 55 |
Mkandawire, T. | 2010 |
| Employability of Offshore Service Workers in the Philippines: opportunities for upward labour mobility or dead-end jobs? In: Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 27 (5), pp. 823-841 | Beerepoot, N. and M. Hendriks | 2013 |
| The Concept of Employability (pdf), : Urban Studies, Vol. 42 (2), pp. 197-219 | McQuaid, R. and C. Lindsay | 2005 |
| Labour and the Challenges of Globalization: What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity? | Bieler, A. | 2008 |
| Moving from Precarious Employment to Decent Work | Evans, J. and E. Gibb | 2009 |
| La précarité est aujourd’hui partout | Bourdieu, P. | 1997 |
| European Labour. Political and Ideological Crisis in an Increasingly More Authoritarian European Union | Wahl, Asbjørn | 2014 |
| The Labor Share Question in China | Qi, Hao | 2014 |
| Understanding the Relationship between Economic Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction (pdf) | Hull, Katy | 2009 |
| A ‘Marshall Plan’ for Africa’s employment challenge | Elumelu, Tony O. | 2014 |
| Innovation and Employment The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Ed. Fagerberg, J., D. Mowery and R. Nelson | Pianta, Mario | 2009 |
| RISING WAGES: HAS CHINA LOST ITS GLOBAL LABOR ADVANTAGE?
Pacific Economic Review Volume 15, Issue 4, pages 482–504, October 2010 |
Tao Yang, Dennis,
Vivian Weijia Chen and Ryan Monarch |
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| Why does trade liberalisation raise wage inequality worldwide? | Epifani, Paolo and Gino Gancia | 2008 |
| Recent Productivity Developments in the World Economy: An Overview from The Conference Board Total Economy Database. (pdf) | Chen, Vivian, Abhay Gupta, Andre Therrien, Gad Levanon and Bart van Ark | |
| Globalizing Labor. In Geographies of Globalization. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Pp, 198-227 | Herod, Andrew | 2009 |
| Is it Labor’s Turn to Globalize? Twenty-first Century Opportunities and Strategic Responses. Global Labour Journal 1 (3) 352-379 | Evans, Peter | 2010 |
| Globalization and the Labour Movement: Challenges and Responses. (pdf) Global Labour Journal 1 (2): 218-232 | Munck, Ronald | 2010 |
| The ILO: An Agency for Globalization? (pdf) New Political Economy 15 (2) 307-318; | Standing, Guy | 2010 |
| ReflecT Leading international research on flexibility and labour market dynamics combined with security for workers and social cohesion | Tilburg University | |
| Recurrent poverty: the impact of family and labour market changes (pdf) | Tomlinson, Mark | 2010 |
| The economics of the Arab Spring (pdf), World Development, May 2013, vol 45, pp. 296-313 | Malik, Adeel, Bassem Awadallah | 2013 |
| Africa’s economic growth from a labour perspective: selected decent work indicators, Leiden: African Studies Center. | Vlaminck,Z, U. Oberst, A.H.M. Leliveld, M.M.A. Kaag, W. Baah-Boateng, S. Maher, N. de Vink | 2013 |
| Labour Markets Trends, Financial Globalization and the current crisis in Developing Countries (pdf) | Van der Hoeven, Rolph (UN DESA) | 2010 |
| Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition (pdf). American Sociological Review, 74(1): 1-22. | Kalleberg, A. | 2009 |
| The Precariat: a view from the South (pdf). Third World Quarterly, (34:5), p. 751. | Munch, R | 2013 |
| Flexicurity: a conceptual critique | Burroni, Luigi and Maarten Keune | 2010 |
| Precarious, Informalizing, and Flexible Work: Transforming Concepts and Understandings. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(3): 290. | Arnold, D. and J.R. Bongiovi | 2012 |
| The Oxford companion to the economics of Africa , Oxford : Oxford University Press | Aryeetey, Ernest et al. (eds.) | 2012 |
| Defining the precariat: A class in the making (pdf), Eurozine | Standing, Guy | 2013 |
| Panorama de las condiciones de trabajo en América Latina. Nueva Sociedad No 232, marzo-abril de 2011 | Weller, Jürgen | 2011 |
| Jóvenes y el desafío de vivir en contextos de desigualdad y diversidad. Crisis de las oportunidades de participación educativa y laboral en América Latina. | Aparicio, Pablo Christian | 2010 |
| Who Is Hit Hardest during a Financial Crisis? The Vulnerability of Young Men and Women to Unemployment in an Economic Downturn. IZA Discussion Paper No. 4359. | Verick, Sher | 2009 |
| Growing fast, transforming slowly. The case for economic transformation (pdf) ACET | Ansu, Yaw, Mina Baliamoune | 2013 |
| The beneficial international spillovers of labour market reforms | Vox-EU | 2010 |
| THE PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TERTIARY AND QUATERNARY SECTORS OF THE ECONOMY | Kenessey, Zoltan | 2005 |
| Labor Markets in the Global Economy: How to Prevent Rising Wage Gaps and Unemployment (pdf) | Gundlach, Erich, Peter Nunnenkamp | 1997 |
| Globalization, structural change, and productivity growth (pdf) | McMillan, Margaret, Dani Rodrik | 2011 |
| The Tertiary Sector Is Going to Dominate the World Economy; Should We Worry? | Sultan, M. | 2008 |
| Resource Centre Employment in China. | China Labour Bulletin | 2014 |
| The Informal Sector Economy as a Global Trend (pdf) | Breman, Jan | 2011 |
| Global Prospects for Full Employment | Club of Rome: G. Jacobs & I. Slaus | 2011 |
| Full employment abandoned. Shifting Sands and Policy Failures. Edwald Elgar Publishing. | William Mitchell and Joan Muyskens | 2008 |
| Globalization: The great unbundling(s). | Economic Council of Finland: Baldwin, R. E. | 2006 |
| The offshore services value chain: upgrading trajectories in developing countries’, Int. J. Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, Vol. 4, Nos. 1/2/3, pp.206–234 | Fernandez-Stark, K., Bamber, P. & Gereffi, G. | 2011 |
| Assessing the Job Polarization Explanation of Growing Wage Inequality. Working Paper 295 | Economic Policy Institute: Mishel, L., Schmitt, J., and Shierholz, H. | 2013 |
| Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings pdf. | MIT: Acemoglu, D. and Autor, D. | 2010 |
| Innovation and Employment,’ in The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Ed. J. Fagerberg, D. Mowery and R. Nelson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | Pianta, M | 2005 |
| The Education Bias of ‘Trade Liberalization’ and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries. Working paper 443. pdf. | Institute of Social Studies (ISS); Mamoon, D. and Mansoob Murshed, S. | 2007 |
| Don’t Blame the Robots Assessing the Job Polarization Explanation of Growing Wage Inequality | Economic Policy Institute: Mishel, L., Shierholz, H., Schmitt, J. | 2013 |
| The Second Machine Age Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. WW Norton | Brynjolfsson, E. and McAfee, A. | 2014 |
| Are Full Employment and Social Cohesion Possible Under Financialization?. Forum for Social Economics, 40 (2) | Argitis, G. and Michopoulou, S. | 2011 |
| A (Post-) Keynesian perspective on “financialisation,IMK Studies 01-2009 | IMK at the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Macroeconomic Policy Institute: Hein, E | 2009 |
| The Labour Markets of Emerging Economies: Has growth translated into more and better jobs? Palgrave Macmillan. | Sandrine, C. and Sher Verick | 2013 |
| Employer of Last Resort Policy and Feminist Economics: Social Provisioning and Socialization of Investment. Working Paper 56. | Center for Full Employment and Price Stability Working Paper Series (cFEPS): Todorova, Z. | 2009 |
| The Taxes-Drive-Money and Employer of Last Resort Approach to Government Policy.’ Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 5(1). | Kadmos, G., and O’Hara, P. | 2000 |
| Political Aspects of Buffer Stock Employment in E. Carlson and W.F. Mitchell (eds.), Achieving Full Employment, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, Supplement to Volume 12, 72-82. | Kriesler, P. and J. Halevi | 2001 |