After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a market economy. These phenomena pose major challenges for the Chinese labor market, which are at the center of the booming academic and policy research in...

1. Introduction- Robert Skidelsky and Nan Craig -- 2. The Future of Work - Robert Skidelsky -- Part I: Work in the Past -- 3. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 1 - Richard Donkin -- 4. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 2 - Richard Sennett -- 5. Patterns and Types of Work in...

Recent reforms have put Germany among the OECD countries with the fewest restrictions on labour migration for highly-skilled occupations, yet inflows continue to be relatively low. As labour migration is supposed to be one means to help meet future labour and skill shortages caused by a...