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Employment and Settlement of Japanese Brazilians: Network Formation and Semi-Marginal Status of Automotive Workers
This chapter explicates the “semi-peripheral” class status of Japanese-Brazilian residents in the Homi housing complexHomi housing complex, examining...
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The Transition to Self-Employment and Perceived Skill-Mismatches: Panel Data Evidence from Eleven EU Countries
Some studies using either objective or subjective indicators, find that self-employed individuals are less likely to be or to report being...
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Reciprocity Within Migrant Networks: The Role of Social Support for Employment
This chapter investigates the ways in which migrants’ perceive and mobilize their social relationships to enter into the labor market. Previous...
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Nonfarm Employment, Labor Dispatch, and Informal Labor
To the ecological migrants, the transformation of life does not simply mean a geographical relocation. Accompanying changed residing spaces are...
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Women’s Participation in Livestock Raising—Evidence from NSSO Employment and Unemployment Surveys 1993–94 to 2011–12
Given the background of insufficient literature on women’s participation in livestock raising since the 1990s, this chapter analyses rural women’s...
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New Developments and Technological Change: The Business of Mass Manufacturing Fashion
Mass manufacture of consumer goods in Britain experienced an unprecedented growth in the 1930s, due to the rise in the light industries producing...
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Life experiences and cultural adaptation among migrant workers in Malaysia
This study examines the state of migrants’ cultural adaptation in Malaysia, and how such an adaptation can help build our understanding of migrants’...
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Work, Employment and Social Exclusion of Dalits
In the twenty-first century, any difficult work means an activity involving a lot of physical strength. In the socio—economic discourse of our times,...
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Bad Jobs on the Rise? Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Low-Paid Work in Hong Kong, 1986–2016
Low-paid employment is a global challenge that has become more acute in recent years. While previous research has examined the micro and macro...
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Work and Rural Livelihoods: The Micro Dynamics of Africa’s ‘Youth Employment Crisis’
While it is widely accepted that Africa is experiencing a youth employment crisis, the nature of the crisis is disputed. In relation to rural youth,...
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Digital Technologies and Product Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Empirical Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms
This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of digitalisation on product upgrading in Global Value Chains (GVCs). Analysis is done for a...
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The Dynamics of Family Formation and Women’s Work: What Facilitates and Hinders Female Employment in the Middle East and North Africa?
Despite increases in educational attainment, women’s employment rates remain very low in the Middle East and North Africa. Difficulties reconciling...
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Preparing for Successful Transitions between Education and Employment in the Twenty-First Century
The restructuring of the labour market due to the twin forces of rapid technological changes and globalisation has changed the employment landscape,...
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The Impact of Transitioning to Non-Standard Employment on Older Workers’ Self-Reported and Mental Health in Japan. A Longitudinal Perspective Using the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement
Japan has one of the highest longevity rates and the second highest average effective age of retirement within the OECD. To face declining...
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The Impact of Post-migration Support for Refugees’ Job Acquirement in the U.S.
Refugees’ employment is considered one of the most important indicators of self-sufficiency in the new country in which they resettle. Previous...
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Industrial Robots and Regional Fertility in European Countries
In this study, we examine whether the long-term structural changes in the labour market, driven by automation, affect fertility. The adoption of...
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Does Social Capital Improve the Effectiveness of Public Service? An Insight from Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Despite the extensive literature on the effectiveness of public service, measuring it from the user’s side among rural-to-urban groups is limited....
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Wage Dispersion and Private Sector Substitutes for Unpaid Household Work
As canvassed in Chap. 5 , the growth of female labour force participation relates strongly to the development of...
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Childhood Left-Behind Experience and Employment Quality of New-Generation Migrants in China
This is the first study that empirically investigates the associations between left-behind experience in childhood and the quality of employment in...
