Socio-Economic Review Advance Access originally published online on June 16, 2009
Socio-Economic Review 2009 7(4):695-726; doi:10.1093/ser/mwp008
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DISCUSSION: A new labour economics?
JEL classification: J01 labor economics
At the 2008 SASE meeting in San José, Costa Rica, David Marsden organized a session on the prospects for a renewed institutional labour economics. The debate began with introductory remarks by Paul Osterman, who sketched out an argument that at the time was still in its very early stages. The introduction and the subsequent comments were found by the audience to be highly productive. After the session, the editors of Socio-Economic Review asked the participants to share their views with the readers of the journal. We are grateful to Paul Osterman for taking up the challenge and summarizing the state of his thinking in a brief draft of what has yet to be developed into a formal paper. We also thank the discussants who agreed to write up their comments on the basis of Osterman's intermediate draft.
Key Words: employment labor economics labor market institutions organizations personnel management
The contours of institutional labour economics: notes towards a revived discipline
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Correspondence: osterman{at}mit.edu
Towards a new institutional labour economics?
ILO, Geneva, Switzerland
Correspondence: auer{at}ilo.org
Institutional labour economics: from survival to revival? Comments on Paul Osterman
University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Correspondence: jgautie{at}univ-paris1.fr
The revival of institutional labour economics: a societal dimension
London School of Economics, London, UK
Correspondence: d.marsden{at}lse.ac.uk