Labor and Economic Growth in Five Asian Countries: South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines

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Explores developments in the labour markets of five countries - South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines - which have undergone successful economic development during the past quarter of a century. The developments are in areas such as employment, earnings, industrial relations and social security measures. The author's methodology is comparative by specific subject, so that a correlation of developmental stages and the emergence of particular features of the labour market emerges. In this study, cross-country comparisons are made in terms of specific aspects of the labour market. The book should prove of interest to economists, political scientists and sociologists concerned with the problems of development.

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All in all, the volume provides a succinct summary of the evolution of labor's situation in comparative Asian perspective for countries whose experience is of pressing interest to other developing-country policy-makers.-The Journal of Asian Studies
"All in all, the volume provides a succinct summary of the evolution of labor's situation in comparative Asian perspective for countries whose experience is of pressing interest to other developing-country policy-makers."-The Journal of Asian Studies

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WALTER GALENSON is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cornell University. He was founder and first director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, founder of the World Employment Program of the International Labor Office in Geneva, and is a past president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Dr. Galenson is the author of 14 books, including most recently, New Trends in Employment Practices: An International Survey (Greenwood Press, 1991).