On the occasion of the centenary of the International Labour Organization (ILO), this 11th special issue of International Development Policy explores the Organization's capacity for action, its effectiveness and its ability to adapt and innovate. The collection of thirteen articles, written by...

Statistics indicate that even if young workers complete vocational training, as a group they are at risk of sustaining injury. It appears that a lack of training in the area of injury prevention may explain some of this effect. Teachers are considered to be key actors in injury-prevention...

Liberalization of temporary contracts has been a hallmark of labor market reforms during the last decades. More recently, factors like the sovereign debt crisis pushed the most indebted countries to unprecedented reductions of employment protection legislation (EPL) also on open-ended contracts....

We investigate the impact of employment protection on firms' credit access by looking at both credit obtained from banks and firms' decision to apply for a loan. We find that greater flexibility in structuring the employees' working hours and in dismissing employees increases the probability...

Aufgrund der erwarteten positiven Auswirkungen auf die Leistung der Beschäftigten, wird die Methode des Führens durch Ziele in einem Großteil der deutschen Unternehmen angewandt. Befragungen weisen jedoch darauf hin, dass das Führen durch Ziele auch mit negativen Auswirkungen in Verbindung...

This paper discusses obstacles faced in implementing SMS and uses concrete examples to show how to overcome them across all modes of transport (air, maritime, rail and road) in leading countries, particularly ITF member countries. The difficulties and problems in implementing SMS can originate...

In almost all cases, the transport industry has adopted safety management systems (SMS) in response to a regulatory initiative. SMS vary dramatically across transport modes and jurisdictions - often because of the influence of different legacy regulatory programmes, and the attendant cultures....

System resilience is the ability for complex, dynamic-adaptive socio-technical systems to absorb and rebound from trauma or stress, and to avoid "jousting with dragons" where results are uncertain and often fatal. In a safety context, the term "dragons" originates from Professor David Woods at...

Since every Safety Management System (SMS) is intended to provide a framework by which an organisation manages risk, it is inevitable that accident investigators will take a close interest. The good investigator will always want to understand how the SMS was intended to control risk and how this...

Arbeitszeitflexibilität ist ein wichtiges Merkmal attraktiver Arbeitgeber – besonders für die junge Generation, für die Arbeit und Freizeit nicht zwangsläufig räumlich und zeitlich strikt getrennte Lebensbereiche sind. Vielerorts würden die betrieblichen Sozialpartner sowie Beschäftigte...

"The sharing economy claims to bring the romance of entrepreneurship to the masses. Through qualitative interviews with nearly eighty workers for Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing, 'Hustle and Gig' explores how the gig economy's classification of workers as "independent contractors"...

How the evolution of global supply chains exploits workers -- The regulatory framework -- The development of global supply chains -- The fragmentation of work in gscs -- How industrial tragedies foster policy -- Corporate social responsibility -- Political and legal strategies to regulate global...