Overview
- The only existing volume that brings together papers describing a wide range of alternative methods of constructing qualitative indicators of labour standards
- Provides a unique comparative critique of strengths and limitations of different methods of constructing qualitative indicators of labour standards with reference to different applications
- Brings together leading academic experts with ILO experts as well as lawyers, social scientists and NGOs having done significant work on labour standard
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 30)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in the use and construction of "qualitative" indicators of labour standards.
Qualitative indicators, while generally having numerical values, are based on such methods as grading by experts, the coding of legislation, and the coding of other textual sources addressing violations of a more de facto nature. Measuring compliance with labour standards is an undertaking intrinsically fraught with difficulty. For there are a number of possible sources of measurement error, both random and non-random, that are unique to such indicators, on top of those that affect qualitative and quantitative indicators alike. The growing use of qualitative indicators of labour standards thus raises a number of questions about comparative methods of construction as well as the appropriateness of particular methods for particular applications. This volume results from a seminar that was organized to address these and related questions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Qualitative Indicators of Labour Standards
Book Subtitle: Comparative Methods and Applications
Editors: David Kucera
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5310-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5200-2Published: 07 May 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7307-5Published: 22 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5310-8Published: 11 March 2007
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 298
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Law and Economics