Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the impact of unilateral divorce on female employment depended critically on laws governing property divis...

Employee ownership has ideological cachet in all advanced industrialized democracies. For many observers, the principle of selfgovernance underlying political democracy extends to the economic sphere. All institutions essential to the basic structure of society must be consistent with the norms of moral equality and autonomy. Since corporations allocate income in a market society, and thereby d...

BACKGROUND According to the Japan Pediatric Society, the mean extra work hours of hospital pediatricians in 2010 was approximately 80 h per month, which is the certification criterion for Karoshi (death from overwork), but there is no precise picture of personnel management at hospitals because the labor authorities do not disclose detailed statistics concerning labor law violations to the publ...

Through the in-depth analysis of the features of Huabei rural industrialization, the unique factory regime in Baigou, Hebei, and the resulting special workers, this paper reveals two dilemmas the migrant workers in Baigou and larger Hubei area face: Because of the interpersonal network of labor market, personalized trade, familial labor process, and patrimonial management, the workers are unabl...

Abstract The sharing economy has had a substantial impact on the labor market and created challenges for companies in traditional industry businesses. In conducting micro-comparative research existing standards that test employment relationship between Uber drivers, this study reveals how different law dogmas deal with conundrum brought about by economy. of personal dependence derived from Germ...