VOLUME 28
ISSUE 1
The Interaction of Labor Market Regulation and Labor Market Policies in Welfare State Reform
Werner Eichhorst and Regina Konle-Seidl
The Regulation of Labor and the Relevance of Legal Origin
David E. Pozen
New Employment Times and the Changing Dynamics of Conflict Resolution at Work: The Case of Ireland
Paul Teague
ISSUE 2
THE CRISIS IN WORKPLACE GOVERNANCE: SPECIAL ISSUE IN HONOR OF PAUL C. WEILER
Updating American Labor Law: Taking Advantage of a Window of Opportunity
Thomas A. Kochan
Crafting a Progressive Workplace Regulatory Policy: Why Enforcement Matters
David Weil
Reconciling Differences Differently: Reflections on Labor Law and Worker Voice After Collective Bargaining
Harry Arthurs
Reconciling Differences Differently: Employee Voice in Public Policymaking and Workplace Governance
Daphne Taras
Recrafting a Trojan Horse: Thoughts on Workplace Governance in Light of Recent British Labor Law Developments
James J. Brudney
Immigration to the Workplace: The German Experience
Peter Hanau
Closing the Global Gender Pay Gap: Securing Justice for Women's Work
Mary Cornish
Changing Employment Practices, Corporate Governance, and the Role of Labor Law in Japan
Takashi Araki
Globalization in Collective Bargaining, Baseball, and Matsuzaka: Labor and Antitrust Law on the Diamond
William B. Gould IV
Governance of the Workplace: The Contemporary Regime of Individual Contract
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt and Timothy A. Haley
Something Old, Something New: Governing the Workplace by Contract Again
Cynthia Estlund
ISSUE 3
BRIDGING THE PAST AND THE FUTURE: A SYMPOSIUM ON COMPARATIVE LABOR LAW
Comparative Labor Law--Bridging the Past and the Future
Benjamin Aaron and Katherine V.W. Stone
Part I: A Look Backward: Reflections and Assessments of the Comparative Labor Law Project
The Comparative Labor Law Group: A Brief History and a Personal Evaluation
Benjamin Aaron
Lessons from an Experiment in Comparative Labor Law (Reflections on the Comparative Labor Law Group)
Xavier Blanc-Jouvan
Comparative Analysis of Labor Law: Learning from the Work Products of a Model Collaborative Design
Alvin L. Goldman and Amy Beckham Osborne
Part II: Convergence or Divergence?
A Comparative Analysis of Security, Flexibility, and Decentralized Industrial Relations in Japan
Takashi Araki
Convergences and/or Divergences of Labor Law Systems: The View from Australia
Ron McCallum
Convergence and/or Divergence in Labor Law Systems?: An European Perspective
Manfred Weiss
Developing the European Comparative Law of Personal Work Contracts
Mark Freedland
Part III: Comparative Approaches and Responses to Globalization
Changes in the Workplace and the Dialogue of Labor Law in the "Global Village"
Bruno Caruso
Beyond the National Case: The Role of Transnational Labor Law in Shaping Domestic Regulation
Julia Lopez
Part IV: Future Directions for Comparative Labor Research
A New Labor Law for a New World of Work: The Case for a Comparative-Transnational Approach
Katherine V.W. Stone
Future Directions for Labor Law Scholarship and International Collaboration
Jacques Rojot
Compared to What? The UCLA Comparative Labor Law Project and the Future of Comparative Labor Law
H.W. Arthurs
BOOK REVIEW
Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality, edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito
reviewed by Roger Blanpain
ISSUE 4
ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LAW, CULTURE, AND THE LABOR MARKET
Introduction
THE ECONOMICS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship, Welfare Provision, and Unemployment: Relationships between Unemployment, Welfare Provision, and Entrepreneurship in Thirty-seven Nations Participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2002
Marc Cowling and William D. Bygrave
Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints, and Start-Up Costs
Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, and Thepthida Sopraseuth
Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship
Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara
Law and the Economics of Entrepreneurship
Simon C. Parker
Entrepreneurship and Institutions
Magnus Henrekson
REGULATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Social Security Arrangements and Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity
Jolanda Hessels, Andre van Stel, Peter Brouwer, and Sanders Wennekers
Why Do Entrepreneurs Appear and Flourish?
Thomas S. Ulen
CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Culture, Political Institutions, and the Regulation of Entry
Rui Baptista
The Entrepreneurial Spirit and What the Law Can Do About It
Amir N. Licht
Explaining Cross-National Variations in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Social Protection and Political Culture
Martin Robson
CONCLUDING COMMENT
Research on Entrepreneurship, Culture, and Law
Richard P. Taub