Changes in Employment Security in Asia

Much attention has been focused on the decline of traditional employment structures in the advanced industrial countries. Lesser attention has focused on this issue in Asia. In this comparative essay, the authors examine the changes in employment security in China, India, Japan, and South Korea. They focus on the historical development of the employment security social contract in these countries, noting the institutional features that gave rise to it in each country. They then examine the resilience of employment security norms under recent economic pressures. They find there has been substantial erosion in employment security during the 1990s in all four countries due to both increased competition and economic liberalization, although there is some variation in both the rate of erosion as well as the prospects for revival of the social contract. They assess the possibilities of a revival in this particular social contract, and the impact of the erosion on unorganized workers.

Portable sick leave in the Victorian building industry : managing cumulative employee benefits in the absence of employment security

The trend away from full-time permanent employment raises questions about the relevance of traditional approaches to managing and compensating employees. Employment in the Australian building industry is characterised by short-term, project-based employment. Employers and unions in the industry have adopted alternative compensation models to accommodate the short-term nature of employment, most notably through portable benefit schemes. In 1997, the Victorian building industry extended the range of portable benefits to include sick leave. Empirical evidence suggests a relationship between employee absence behaviour and accrual entitlement models. Research reported here supports this link, and suggests that both employers and employees can benefit from an alternative, portable, approach to accrued entitlements. Employers can benefit because employees may be less likely to take an instrumental approach to their entitlements. Employees benefit because they are able to accrue entitlements for the period they remain in the building industry, irrespective of the extent to which they change jobs.

Manual of state employment security legislation. Supplement: Unemployment insurance legislative poliy, 1947.

Mode of access: Internet.

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Mode of access: Internet.

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"Appendix C. Selected references on temporary disability insurance program": pages 63-67.

Manual of state employment security legislation. Supplement: Draft language with commentary for a state temporary disability insurance law coordinated with unemployment insurance.

Mode of access: Internet.

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Mimeographed.

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Report year ends June 30.

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Not issued Oct.-Nov. 1940.

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No more published?

The Labor market and employment security /

Not issued Oct.-Nov. 1940.

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Annual

Report on the effectiveness of financing and selected eligibility, job search, and benefit payment operations of the unemployment insurance program : State of Montana, Department of Labor and Industry, Employment Security Division.

Mode of access: Internet.