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Labour Markets - a Virtual Special Issue

The analysis of labour markets was and is one of the main subjects of Socio-Economic Review. The fifteen articles assembled in this second Virtual Special Issue were published between 2003 and 2011 and document the prominence of this field in socio-economic research.

The articles within this virtual issue cover a wide range of themes, approaches and methods: from articles concentrating on one country only to comparative work, from historical to contemporary observations, and from qualitative to quantitative analyses. The tensions in the development of modern capitalisms (see the recent first Virtual Special Issue of SER on ‘Capitalism’) in the context of economic globalization, a competitive international environment and international migration are mirrored in labour markets, labour conditions and their development as well as in labour market policies.

The articles of this Virtual Special Issue describe these tensions and their impact within different economic, political and organizational settings—on the international and national levels as well as in the organizational context of firms.

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Business and the development of job security regulations: the case of Germany
Patrick Emmenegger and Paul Marx
2011 Volume 9(4), first published online June 21, 2011

Does the global economy mean more sweat? Trade, investment, migration and working hours in Europe
Brian Burgoon and Damian Raess
2011 Volume 9(4), first published online April 5, 2011

Can activating labour market policy offset the detrimental life satisfaction effect of unemployment?
Melike Wulfgramm
2011 Volume 9(3)

Upgrading or polarization? Occupational change in Britain, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, 1990–2008
Daniel Oesch and Jorge Rodríguez Menés
2011 Volume 9(3)

Co-producing workplace transformation: the Dominican Republic in comparative perspective
Andrew Schrank
2011 Volume 9(3)