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Speeches and conference papers (selected)"The precariat in Korea and basic income", invited presentation to the first Korea-Japan Basic Income Network Joint Symposium, organized by the Basic Income Korean Network, the Basic Income Japanese Network and the Institute for Urban Humanities, University of Seoul, 19 August 2010. "Work after globalization: Building occupational citizenship", annual Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Lecture, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School, New York, 20 April 2010. "Basic income for the precariat", keynote presentation to conference on Basic Income at a Time of Economic Upheaval: A Path to Justice and Stability?, organized by the Basic Income Earth Network Canada and the US Basic Income Guarantee Network, Montreal, Canada, 15-16 April 2010. "Work after globalization", plenary presention to the inaugural conference of the Basic Income Japan Network, Kyoto, 26-27 March 2010. "Work after globalization: Reaching the precariat", presentation to the 28th International Labour Process Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, 15-17 March 2010. "The precariat: Basic income in a politics of paradise", invited presentation to plenary session of conference on Towards 2010: European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, organised by the Representation in Italy of the European Commission, Naples, Italy, 27-28 November 2009. "Rebuilding social protection in developing countries after the crisis", invited presentation to the Department for International Development (DFID), London, 24 November 2009. "The 'precariat': What is producing it and what are the responses to it?", presentation to East Meets West seminar sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council at the British Academy, London, 6 November 2009. Presentation on cash transfers to seminar organised by SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association of India), New Delhi, 27 August 2009.
"From conditional to unconditional cash transfers:A new model of social protection", invited presentation to Second Conference on Integrated Social Policies in Egypt organised by the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity, Cairo, 4-5 July 2009. Powerpoint "Responding to the crisis: Economic stabilisation grants", presentation to the annual conference of the Social Policy Association, Edinburgh, 29 June-1 July 2009. Text "Responding to crises in the Global Transformation", presentation to UK Department for International Development (DFID) retreat on Responding to New Global Challenges: Making It Happen and Measuring our Impact, Chesham, UK, 15-18 June 2009. "Work after globalisation: A progressive agenda", professorial inaugural lecture at the University of Bath, 28 May 2009. Press release; Podcast "Basic income as an alternative to conditional cash transfers", presentation to conference on Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty organised by the World Bank and the Institute of Fiscal Studies, London, 26 May 2009. Presentation to workshop on social protection, organised by the Ford Foundation and the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 11-12 May 2009. "The Global Transformation: From 'jobholders' to occupational citizenship", presentation to the fourth International CLPE Conference on Knowledge in Labor, Work & Action: Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Human Condition in the 21st Century, Osgoode Hall Law School/Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, 30 April-1 May 2009. "Basic income: Bringing security to the precariat", presentation to conference "Ripensare Welfare e Diritti: La sfida del Basic Income", University of Florence, 24 April 2009. "Responding to the crisis: Economic stabilisation grants", presentation to Economics Summit at the University of Bath, 20 March 2009. Version published in Citizen's Income Newsletter, Issue 3, 2009. Speech to conference on Young People for a Social Europe organised by the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Brussels, 4-5 March 2009. "Could a basic income work in Africa? Report on a pilot scheme in Namibia", presentation to a seminar at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 27 January 2009. Reported in Citizen's Income Newsletter, Issue 2, 2009. “State benefits and community income”, presentation to workshop organized by SEWA and the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India, 9-10 December 2008. “Work after globalization”, invited public presentation at the University of Sydney, 21 November 2008. "Reviving egalitarianism in full freedom: Why basic income will define progressive politics", plenary presentation to Twelfth BIEN congress on Inequality and Development in a Globalised Economy - The Basic Income Option, Dublin 19-21 June 2008. Conference programme and papers “A pilot basic income scheme in Africa”, plenary presentation to Twelfth BIEN congress on Inequality and Development in a Globalised Economy – The Basic Income Option, Dublin, 19-21 June 2008."Occupational citizenship in the global transformation", invited lecture at the Centre for Work and Life, University of Adelaide, 2 May 2008. Abstract and audio recording “Towards occupational citizenship: A context for basic income”, plenary speech to the annual meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, USA, 7-9 March 2008. Conference programme “Reviving egalitarianism in the Global Transformation: Building occupational security”, plenary speech to conference on Universalising Socio-Economic Security in South Asia, organized by the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague) and the Institute of Human Development, New Delhi, 17-20 February 2008. Conference programme “Precarious employment and women’s work”, keynote speech to annual congress of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), Ahmedabad, India, 7-9 January 2008. Keynote speech for symposium on Labor on the Margins, organized by Community Education Program, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 16-17 November 2007.
“‘The Australian Charter of Employment Rights’: Missing dimensions”, keynote speech to launch of the Australian Charter of Employment Rights, organized by the Australian Institute of Employment Rights, Melbourne, 5 September 2007. "An international agenda for vulnerable workers' rights", keynote speech to conference on Jobs and Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, organised by the Economic Security Project of the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 29-31 March 2007. Conference programme; Webcast Also see C. Smith, "Labour expert leads call for basic income", Georgia Straight News, 29 March 2007. View
"Income security: Why trade unionists should campaign for a basic income", speech to eleventh BIEN congress on Universalism Strengthens Development, Cape Town, South Africa, 2-4 November 2006. Conference programme; "Social rights and welfare in the era of global flexibility: The necessity of universal forms of solidarity and redistribution", speech to conference on Small is Beautiful? Work, Social Rights and Trade Unions in Small Firms, organised by the European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, 27 October 2006. "Work and labor: The global transformation", 2006 Carol Hoffman Collins '63 Global Scholar-in-Residence lecture, Center for Global Initiatives, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley (MA), USA, 18 October 2006. Webcast
"Labour re-commodification and the European social model or Labour in the global transformation: Restructuring social income", speech to conference on The Future of the European Social Model: The Role of the Trade Unions, organised by the European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, 5 October 2006. Speech to civil society summit on Closing the Poverty Gap, Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 June 2005. "Ukraine's dire insecurities: What are the priorities?", "Discrimination and disadvantage: Are women and older workers being marginalised?"and "'Decent work index' and ‘decent work enterprise index': Tools for policy?", papers for national conference on Socio-Economic Security in Ukraine, organised by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, ILO and UNDP, Kiev, 13-14 April 2005. More information "The challenge of economic insecurity in India", keynote speech to international conference on Employment and Income Security in India, organised by the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, 6-8 April 2005. "Socio-economic security", inaugural seminar as visiting professor at University of Bath, organised by the Institute for International Policy Analysis, Bath, UK, 12 November 2004. Keynote speech to conference on Strengthening Income Security in Namibia: Poverty, HIV/AIDS and the Need for a Basic Income Grant, Windhoek, 2-5 November 2004. "Policy alternatives: The Basic Income Grant", speech to conference on the Tenth Anniversary of South African Independence and the 50th Anniversary of the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 21-22 October 2004.
"Why basic income is needed for a right to work", paper for tenth BIEN Congress on The Right to a Basic Income: Egalitarian Democracy, Barcelona, Spain, 18-21 September 2004.
Plenary address to Forum Barcelona 2004: Human Rights, Emerging Needs and New Commitments, organised by Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 18-21 September 2004.
Presentation to conference on Overcoming Social Exclusion: Brazil in Comparative Perspective, organised by the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, UK, 22 June 2004.
"Economic insecurities in a great transformation", paper for international conference on Changes in Working Life and the Appeal of Right-Wing Populism in Europe, organised by the SIREN project, Vienna, 17-18 June 2004.
"Basic income: Overcoming insecurity in a globalizing world", keynote speech to the inaugural conference of the Social Policy Forum, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 21-22 May 2004.
Discussant on buzz words at conference on Social Knowledge and International Policymaking: Exploring the Linkages, organised by UNRISD, Geneva, 20-21 April 2004.
"Evolution of the Washington Consensus: Economic insecurity as discontent", presentation to international conference on Development in Open Economies, organised by Indian Ministry of Commerce, UNCTAD and DFID, New Delhi, 1-3 April 2004. "Combating economic insecurity in Ukraine: The major findings of UPSS-3", paper for conference on People's Socio-Economic Security in Ukraine, Kiev, 16-17 December 2003. ILO press release Presentation on a basic income grant for South Africa to the national BIG conference on Reducing Poverty and Inequality - A BIG Solution, Soweto, South Africa, 2-4 December 2003. Presentation on socio-economic databases to the 17th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, Geneva, 24 November-3 December 2003. Speech to conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and Development: Towards a New Agenda?, organised by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, 17-18 November 2003. Transcript Invited plenary speaker at conference on Economics for the Future to celebrate 100 years of the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK, 17-19 September 2003. Presentations to African technical consultation on Economic Security and Decent Work, organized by ILO, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 26-27 May 2003. Published as "Introduction" and "Income security, justice and social protection in Tanzania: A comparison with Ethiopia, Ghana and South Africa", in R. Paratian and S. Dasgupta (eds.), Confronting Economic Insecurity in Africa (Geneva, ILO, 2004), pp.197-238. "The right to basic income security", speech to conference on Staying Poor: Chronic Poverty and Development Policy, organised by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK, 7-9 April 2003. "The idea of work", plenary speech to conference on The Future of Work: Key Challenges for the European Employment Strategy, organised by the Greek Presidency of the European Union, Athens, 13-14 February 2003. "Struggling with insecurity in Ukraine: The Ukrainian People's Security Survey 2002", paper for international conference on economic security, organised by Statistics Committee of Ukraine and ILO, Kiev, December 2002. Presentation on basic income to a seminar organised by CORI (Council of Religious of Ireland), Dublin, October 2002. "About time: The right to income security", paper for conference on Quality in Employment and Enlargement of the European Union, Brussels, 18-19 October 2002. Panel speaker at seminar of Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists on Economic, Employment and Social Implications of Restructuring, Brussels, 14-15 October 2002. Programme
"About time: Basic income security as a right", paper for ninth Congress of the Basic Income European Network on Income Security as a Right, Geneva, 12-14 September 2002.
"The South African solidarity grant", paper for ninth Congress of the Basic Income European Network on Income Security as a Right, Geneva, 12-14 September 2002.
Speech to conference on Strengthening the Security in Social Security, organised by the International Social Security Association, Vancouver, Canada, 10-12 September 2002.
Presentation to workshop on Labour Law and the Informal Economy, organised by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), Geneva, 15-16 June 2002. Keynote address to SU/TCDC, UNDP inter-regional workshop on Social Protection in an Insecure Era: A South-South Exchange on Alternative Social Policy Responses to Globalization, Santiago, Chile, 14-17 May 2002. Summary Keynote address to seminar on Decentralisation, Sustainable Development and Social Security, organised by Joint Committee of Panchayats (Aryad and Kanjikkuzhy Blocks) and ILO, Mararikulam, Kerala, India, 11-13 May 2002.
Presentation to conference on Rethinking Redistribution, organised by Real Utopias Project, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 3-5 May 2002. Published as "CIG, COAG and COG: A comment on a debate", in B. Ackerman, A. Alstott and P. Van Parijs, Redesigning Distribution (London and New York, Verso, 2006), pp.175-195. Keynote presentation to inaugural conference of the US Basic Income Group, City University, New York, 8-9 March 2002. Conference papers
"Globalisation: The eight crises of social protection", V.V. Giri Memorial Lecture to 43rd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics, Bangalore, India, 19 December 2001. "Monitoring economic security in Indonesia" (with J. Pincus and J. Sender), paper for technical seminar on People's Security Surveys, Geneva, ILO, 28-30 November 2001.
Invited plenary speaker to 27th General Assembly of the International Social Security Association, Stockholm, 9-15 September 2001.
Presentation of Ukraine survey results to tripartite conference organised by the Government of Ukraine, UNDP and ILO, Kiev, Aug. 2001. Keynote speech to the annual conference of the British Social Policy Association on Reconstituting Social Policy: Global, National, Local, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 24-26 July 2001. "Care work: Overcoming security and neglect", presentation to an informal consultation on Care Work Security, ILO InFocus Programme on Socio-Economic Security, Geneva, 29-30 March 2001. Published in M. Daly (ed.), Care Work: The Quest for Security (Geneva, ILO, 2001), pp.15-32. Presentation to workshop on Basic Security, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, 21 March 2001. Presentation to workshop on Women Workers: An Agenda for the Future, National Commission on Labour, New Delhi, 19-20 March 2001. "Global insecurity: Restructuring social income", presentation to conference on Global Tensions, Cornell University, USA, 9-10 March 2001. Published as "Human security and social protection", in J. Ghosh and C.P. Chandrasekhar (eds.), Work and Well-Being in the Age of Finance (New Delhi, Tulika Books, 2003), pp.579-602. Text Keynote address to 15th Annual Conference of AIRAANZ (Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand) on Crossing Borders: Employment, Work, Markets and Social Justice across Time, Place and Discipline, University of Wollongong, Australia, 31 January-2 February 2001. "Beyond Third Wayism: Basic security as equality", presentation to colloquium on Social Cohesion and Social Protection, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, 25-26 January 2001. "Human security and social protection", presentation to international conference on Globalisation, Structural Change and Income Distribution, Chennai, India, December 2000. Published in J. Ghosh and C.P. Chandrasekhar (eds.), Work and Well-Being in the Age of Finance (New Delhi, Tulika Books, 2003), pp.579-602. Text Invited presentation on labour markets in accession countries to a conference on The Economic and Social Dimension of EU Enlargement, organised by the French Presidency of the European Union, Brussels, 16 November 2000. Keynote speech on minimum income schemes to annual conference of ANPOCS (Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduaçãoe Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais), Petrópolis, Brazil, 23-27 October 2000.
Speaker at conference on Social Policy in a Development Context, organised by UNRISD, Tammsvik, Sweden, 23-24 September 2000. Speaker at ILO/UNDP roundtable on poverty, Moscow, 19 September 2000. More information
"Unemployment and income security", discussion paper to open debate on Rethinking Income Support Systems for the Unemployed, an event at Geneva 2000: Follow-up to the World Summit on Social Development, Geneva, 27 June 2000. Published as Programme on Socio-Economic Security Papers No.3 (Geneva, ILO, June 2000). Invited speaker at seminar on women in informal work, organised by WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing, Organizing) and Radcliffe Public Policy Center, Harvard University, USA, 25-26 May 2000. "Global labour flexibility: Seeking distributive justice", keynote speech to Third Latin American Congress of Work Sociology on El Trabajo en los Umbrales del Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 17-20 May 2000. Published as "La inseguridad laboral", Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo, Year 6, No. 11, 2000, pp.47-105.
"Voice representation security: An aspect of decent work", paper for joint ECE-EUROSTAT-ILO seminar on Measurement of the Quality of Employment, Geneva, 3-5 May 2000 (Geneva, United Nations, 2000). Speech to conference on Social Protection as a Productive Factor, organised by the Portugese Presidency of the European Union, Porto, Portugal, 13-14 April 2000.
Invited opening speaker to conference on Addressing the Challenge for European Pensions, organised by the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, 28-29 February 2000. Longer paper published as Globalisation and Flexibility: Dancing Around Pensions, Programme on Socio-Economic Security Papers No. 2 (Geneva, ILO, June 2000). "Implicações do desemprego e pobreza juvenis para as políticas econômicas e sociais", keynote presentation to Fórum Jovem Século XXI: Educação, formação profissiona empregabilidade, organised by the ILO and CINTERFOR (Centro Interamericano de Investigación y Documentación sobre Formación Profesional), Brasilia, 7-10 December 1999. Programme "Global labour flexibility: Seeking distributive justice", guest lecture at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany, 24 November 1999. Invited address to conference on Beyond Transition: Ten Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, UNDP policy workshop, The Hague, 11-15 October 1999. Keynote address to seminar on Restructuring Employment and Work in East-Central Europe, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 18-19 June 1999. Published as "The babble of euphemisms: Social protection in ‘transformed' labour markets", in A. Rainnie, A. Smith and A. Swain (eds.), Work, Employment and Transition: Restructuring Livelihoods in Post-Communism (London, Routledge, 2002). "New development paradigm or Third Wayism: A critique of a World Bank rethink", paper for conference on Global Trajectories: Ideas, Transnational Policy Transfer and ‘Models' of Welfare Reform, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 25-26 March 1999. Published as "Brave new words? A critique of Stiglitz's World Bank rethink", Development and Change, Vol.31, No.4, Sept. 2000, pp.737-763. "Global flexibility: Economic integration, social disintegration?", paper for international conference on Globalisation, Institutions and Social Cohesion, organised by the University of Rome, 15-17 December 1998. Published in M. Franzini and F.B. Pizzuti (eds.), Globalization, Institutions and Social Cohesion (Berlin, Springer, 2001), pp.167-181.
Speaker at seminar on Labour Market Flexibility and Welfare Reform: Increasing Labour Market Participation, organised by Citizen's Income Trust, London, 12 November 1998. "The babble of euphemisms: Social protection in ‘transformed' labour markets", paper for conference on Post-Communist Transformation and the Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches, organised by the Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies, Berlin, 30-31 October 1998. Published in A. Rainnie, A. Smith and A. Swain (eds.), Work, Employment and Transition: Restructuring Livelihoods in Post-Communism (London, Routledge, 2002). "Konstruktywne myślenie o przyszłości w Zjednoczonej Europie" ("Flexible labour markets and regulations: Thinking constructively about the future in a united Europe"), paper for conference on Tworzenie nowych miejsc pracy I restrukturyzacja ekonomiczna w Polsce, organised by Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw, 23-24 October 1998. "Seeking equality of security in the era of globalisation", paper for seventh Congress of the Basic Income European Network, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-12 September 1998. "Achieving economic and social rights within globalisation", background paper for Regional Conference on Human Rights for Human Development to celebrate 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, organised by UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS, Yalta, Ukraine, 2-4 September 1998. Published in The New Yalta: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights in RBEC Region (New York, UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS, 1998), pp.121-126. Invited speaker on basic income to international conference on Renda Mínima: Discussões e Experiências, organised by the Federal Senate of Brazil, Brasilia, 11-12 August 1998. Proceedings published as Renda Mínima: Discussões e Experiências, Conferência Internacional (Brasilia, Federal Senate, 1998), pp.30-36 (in Portugese). Invited speaker for discussion on globalisation and human rights at the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva, 11 May 1998. Summary of discussion "The folly of social safety nets in Eastern Europe", speech to workshop on Reforms of Welfare State: Are There Alternatives to (Neo) Liberal Social Policies, organised by the Open Society Institute (Slovenia), Ljubljana, 8-9 May 1998. "Transformation of jobs and employment", panel contribution at Gender and Development Workshop, organised by the World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2 April 1998. Text of remarks "Employment and social exclusion", invited address to UN Human Rights Commission Round Table on Setting Benchmarks for the Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva, 25 March 1998. Summary of proceedings "Seeking equality of security in the era of globalisation", speech to international seminar on Emprego e Desenvolvimento technológico, organised by Departamento Intersindical de Estatística e Estudos Sócio-Econômicos DIEESE/PCDT-CNPq, São Paulo and Brasília, Brazil, 12-18 November 1997. Invited speaker to conference on Full Employment and the Future of Welfare, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, October 1997.
"The challenge of learning from experience", speech to conference on Advancing the Social Agenda: Two Years after Copenhagen, organized by UNRISD, Geneva, 9-10 July 1997. Speech at an international conference on Flexibilisierung - Problem oder Lösung (Flexibility - Problem or Solution), organised by Denkwerkstätte Graz Arbeit und Arbeitslosigkeit, Graz, Austria, 20-21 June 1997. "Labour market dynamics in South African industrial firms: The South African labour flexibility survey", presentation to conference on Labour Markets and Enterprise Performance, Pretoria, 30 January 1997. "The ‘Human Development Enterprise': Seeking flexibility, security and efficiency", presentation to the ILO Enterprise Forum, Geneva, 8-9 November 1996. Participation in Economic Policy Forum organised by the International Center for Research on Women, The Hague, 18-19 September 1996.
"Reviving dead souls: Russian unemployment and enterprise restructuring", paper for conference on Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment: Lessons from Russia, Centre for Comparative Labour Studies, University of Warwick, UK, 4-6 September 1996. Published in S. Clarke (ed.), Structural Adjustment Without Mass Unemployment: Lessons From Russia (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1998), pp.147-185. Paper for ninth annual Labour Law Conference on Transformation in the Workplace, organised by Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Institute of Development and Labour Law, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 11-13 July 1996. Plenary speaker on labour market fragmentation and globalisation at 13th National Congress of Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL), Rimini, Italy, 2-5 July 1996. Paper for Carrefour européen des sciences et de la culture, « Quel avenir pour le travail en Europe? », organised by the office of Jacques Santer, European Commission President, Lund, Sweden, 27-28 October 1995. "Structural adjustment and wages", paper for International Progressive Policy Conference on Wage Inequality, Easton (Maryland), USA, 14-17 October 1995. "The HDE concept: Rationale and measurement", plus papers on Malaysia and the Philippines for technical meeting on enterprise restructuring and labour markets, organised by ILO Labour Market Policies Branch, Turin, Italy, 31 May-2 June 1995. “Social protection in central and eastern Europe: A tale of slipping anchors and torn safety nets”, paper for seminar on The Future of the Welfare State in Global Perspective: An International Debate, organised by UNRISD at the United Nations Social Summit, Copenhagen, 6-12 March 1995. Published in G. Esping-Andersen (ed.), Welfare States in Transition: National Adaptations in Global Economies (London, Sage for UNRISD, 1996), pp.225-255. "Enterprise restructuring: The ILO's Ukraine Labour Flexibility Survey of 1994" and "Wage trends in industrial enterprises: The ULFS findings", papers for International Conference on Reforming Labour Market and Social Policy in Ukraine, Kiev, 26-27 September 1994. “Labour market policies: Reconstructing statistics”, paper for conference on Restructuring of Labour Statistics in Transition Countries: First Results and Emerging Challenges, organised by ILO Bureau of Statistics, Minsk, 31 August-2 September 1994. Published in I. Chernyshev, Statistics for Emerging Labour Markets in Transition Economies: A Technical Guide on Sources, Methods, Classifications and Policies (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997), pp.61-80. "The wage crunch in Central and Eastern Europe" (with D. Vaughan-Whitehead), paper for meeting of CNEL (Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del Lavoro), Rome, June 1994. "The labour market and social policy", speech to seminar on Social Policy in the Transition, organised by the European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity, Moscow, 13-15 May 1994. "The challenges for governance of social protection in the 1990s", paper for the Cyprus Roundtable on Design and Governance of Social Protection Systems, organised by ILO-CEET and the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance of Cyprus, Larnaka, 23-25 March 1994. "From the minimum wage to income security: The challenge", paper for Third Central European Forum: Lessons in Social Policy, Vienna, 21-23 January 1994. "Minimum wage, workfare and citizen's income: Instruments for redistributive justice in the 21st century", paper for conference on Economic Analysis of Low Pay and the Effects of Minimum Wages, Arles, France, 30 September-1 October 1993. "Labour insecurity in Central and Eastern Europe: A vision of decency needed", paper for Council of Europe Parliamentary Conference on Economic Progress in Central and Eastern Europe: Lessons and Prospects, Helsinki, 2-4 June 1993. "The Bulgarian Labour Flexibility Survey", ten papers (with G. Sziráczki and J. Windell) for conference on Labour Market Reforms in Bulgarian Industry, organised by Bulgarian Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and ILO-CEET, Sofia, 18-20 May 1993. "The labour market crisis in Eastern and Central Europe", paper for round table organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, March 1993. "Employment dynamics and occupational shifts: The Russian Labour Flexibility Survey", paper for conference on Restructuring Labour Practices in Russian Industrial Enterprises, organised by ILO and local tripartite organisations, St. Petersburg, 26-28 October 1992. "The Russian Labour Flexibility Survey: Employment dynamics in Russian industry", paper for conference on Restructuring Labour Practices in Russian Industrial Enterprises, organised by ILO with Russian Federation Ministry of Labour and Russian Federal Employment Service, Moscow, 21-23 October 1992. "Restructuring for distributive justice in Eastern Europe", paper for seminar on Towards a Competitive Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Social Dimensions, organised by the National Agency for Welfare and Health (Finland) and the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (Austria), Kellokoski, Finland, 20-22 September 1992. Published as Restructuring for Distributive Justice in Eastern Europe, ILO-CEET Policy Papers No. 2 (Budapest, ILO-CEET, Jan. 1993). "Questioni di politica sociale e del mercato del lavoro", paper for conference on La situazione sociale nei paesi dell'Europa Centrale ed orientale, organised by CNEL (Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del Lavoro), Rome, 12-13 May 1992. "Emerging modalities of work and labour: Pursuit of occupation in flexible labour markets", paper for conference on Human Resources at the Dawn of the 21st Century, organised by EUROSTAT and the Government of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 27-29 November 1991. Published in Human Resources at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Conference Proceedings (Luxembourg, European Communities, 1992), pp.301-317. "Emerging labour market policies in Eastern Europe", paper for the European Association of Labour Economists conference, El Escorial, Spain, 26-29 September 1991. "Labour mobility in Europe and labour market institutions", paper for the third European regional congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, Bari, Italy, 23-26 September 1991. "Labour insecurity through market regulation: Legacy of the 1980s, challenge for the 1990s", paper for conference on Poverty and Social Marginality, organised by the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies, Washington, D.C., 19-21 September 1991. Published in K. McFate, R. Lawson and W.J. Wilson (eds.), Poverty, Inequality and the Future of Social Policy (New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1995), pp.153-196. Speech on workers’ security at University of Texas, Austin, March 1991. "Poverty in Eastern Europe", paper for the second conference of the European Association of Labour Economists, Lund, Sweden, 20-23 September 1990 (published in Conference Papers Vol.5). "Labour regulation in an era of fragmented flexibility", paper for the WZB/ILO/IILS international conference on Workers' Protection and Labour Market Dynamics, Berlin, 16-19 May 1990. Published in C.F. Buechtemann (ed.), Employment Security and Labor Market Behavior (Ithaca, NY, ILR Press, 1993), pp.425-441. Speaker at European Conference on Poverty, Marginalisation and Social Exclusion in the Europe of the 1990s, organised by the University of Sassari with the Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs Directorate (DG-V) of the European Commission, Sardinia, Italy, 23-25 April 1990. Presentation to seminar on The World Development Volume: Beyond Survival - Expanding Income Earning Opportunities for Women, World Bank/Ford Foundation Women's Program, Washington, D.C., 20 April 1990. "Labour fragmentation and inequality", paper for conference on Pathways to Industrial and Regional Development in the 1990s, Lake Arrowhead, California, 14-18 March 1990. Published as "Alternative routes to labor flexibility", in M. Storper and A.J. Scott (eds.), Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development (London and New York, Routledge, 1992), pp.255-275. Speaker at conference on Man and Work on the Threshold of the Third Millennium, organised by Research Institute of Social Development, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 30 January-1 February 1990. "Workfare and labour fragmentation: The threat to occupation", paper for inaugural conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Turin, Italy, 8-10 September 1989. "Structural adjustment and labour flexibility in Malaysian manufacturing: Some post-NEP dilemmas", paper for the tenth economic convention of the Malaysian Economics Association on The Malaysian Economy Beyond 1990, Kuala Lumpur, 7-9 August 1989. "Workfare and labour fragmentation: The threat to occupation", paper for conference on New Citizenship Rights, the Future of the Welfare State and Basic Income, CGIL, Rome, 5-7 April 1989. Published as "The road to workfare: Alternative to welfare or threat to occupation?", International Labour Review, Vol.129, No.6, 1990, pp.677-691. "Labour market policies for structural adjustment", paper for conference on Structural Adjustment, Manila, January 1989. "Labour flexibility and insecurity: An alternative strategy", paper for International Economics Association conference on Markets, Institutions and Cooperation, Labour Relations and Economic Performances, Venice, Italy, October 1988. Published in R. Brunetta and C. Dell’Aringa (eds.), Labour Relations and Economic Performance (London, Macmillan, 1990), pp.439-468. Panellist at European Claimants' Association congress on 1992 and the Consequences for Social Security in Europe: What Can Claimants Do?, Brussels, 29-30 August 1988. "Decoupling income security from the labour market", paper for CGIL conference, Rome, 17 June 1988. "European unemployment, insecurity and flexibility: News from somewhere", speech to conference on Progression from a Work-Based to a Culture-Based Society?, organised by Green Alternative European Link (GRAEL) of the European Parliament, Brussels, 12-13 November 1987. "The future of labour markets internationally", paper for Asian regional workshop on International Contract Labour, organised by Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University and International Development Research Centre (Canada), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 16-20 November 1987. "Labour slack and insecurity: The need for a new social consensus", paper for the first international conference on Basic Income, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 4-6 September 1986. Published in proceedings of the conference (Antwerp, Basic Income European Network, 1988), pp.47-64. "Population mobility, industrialisation and government policies", paper for conference organised by the Government of Norway, University of Bergen, 16 October 1986. "Labour circulation and urban labour markets", paper for conference on Spatial Mobility and Urban Change, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, August 1986.
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