While labour and employment law involves facets of both international and comparative law that are interesting and valuable, the best way to organize an advanced course for US law schools is to study both: Understanding of either is dependent on understanding both. The study of international labour and employment law at the level of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and regional inter...

Many successful open source projects have been developed by programmers who were employed by firms but worked on the open source projects on the side due to economic incentives like career improvement benefits. Such side work may be a good thing for the employing firms too if they get some strategic value from the open source software and/ or if the productivity of the programmers on these proj...

It is widely believed that initial experience in temporary and/or casual employment may act as an important steeping-stone to permanent or more desired employment. This is because, on the demand side, employers are increasingly using non-standard employment as a means of labour force screening, and, on the supply side, such jobs offer workers a chance to broaden workforce skills and improve emp...

The last decades have been anxious ones for U.S. employees. The sources of worry are not hard to identify: for most workers, wages have not grown even at the pace of productivity gains, health and pension benefi ts are harder to obtain, and job security seems increasingly shaky. For many employees, stress levels and work/family pressures have ratcheted up as the job market becomes increasingly ...

Abstract Employment subsidies are important active labour market policy (ALMP) tools, suited to a variety of challenges. This paper engages with recent ALMP categorisation debates by appraising Cronert’s (2019) typology employment subsidies. It uses empirical material assess the typology’s explanatory power and produce insights inform further typological development. The illustrative case Briti...