Kucera, David (Mr.)

Work Unit	INTEGRATION/POLICY COHERENCE GROUP
Name	David Kucera
Title	Senior Research Economist
Phone	+41 22 799 6694
Fax	+41 22 799 8044
Email	kucera@ilo.org

Educational and Professional Background

• Ph.D. in Economics, New School for Social Research, New York City.
• Assistant Director, Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New York City, 1996-1999.

Current Research Interests

• Labour standards and globalization
• Trade and employment
• Statistical indicators and labour standards
• Economics of gender
• Informal employment and labour markets in developing countries

Selected Publications

• In Defense of Labour Market Institutions: Cultivating Justice in the Developing World, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (co-editor with Janine Berg and contributor).
• “Trade Union Rights and Trade Competitiveness: Asia in a Global Context,” in Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific, Sangheon Lee and François Eyraud (eds.), Chandos, 2008.
• Qualitative Indicators of Labour Standards: Comparative Methods and Applications, Springer, 2007 (editor and contributor).
• “Gender, Informality and Employment Adjustment in Latin America,” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 85, 2007 (co-authored with Rossana Galli).
• “Trade Union Rights, Democracy and Exports: A Gravity Model Approach,” Review of International Economics, Vol. 14, No. 5, 2006 (co-authored with Ritash Sarna).
• “Labour Developments in Dynamic Asia: What Do the Data Show?,” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 61, 2005 (co-authored with Anne Chataignier).
• “Core Labor Standards and Economic Development,” Labor History, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2004.
• “Child Labour, Education and Export Performance,” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 52, 2004 (co-authored with Ritash Sarna).
• “Measuring Trade Union Rights: A Country-level Indicator Constructed from Coding Textual Sources,” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 50, 2004.
• “How Do Trade Union Rights Affect Trade Competitiveness?,” Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 39, 2004 (co-authored with Ritash Sarna).
• “Labor Standards and Informal Employment in Latin America,” World Development, Vol. 32, No. 5, 2004 (co-authored with Rossana Galli).
• “Deindustrialization and Changes in Manufacturing Trade: Factor Content Calculations for 1978-1995,” Review of World Economics, Vol. 139, No. 4, 2003 (co-authored with William Milberg).
• “Informal Employment in Latin America: Movements Over Business Cycles and the Effects of Worker Rights,” IILS Working Paper No. 145, 2003 (co-authored with Rossana Galli).
• “Core Labour Standards and Foreign Direct Investment,” International Labour Review, Vol. 141, Nos. 1-2, 2002 (reprinted in The WTO and Labor And Employment, Drusilla Brown and Robert Stern (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2007).
• “The Effects of Wealth and Gender Inequality on Economic Growth: A Survey of Recent Empirical Studies,” IILS Working Paper No. 136, 2002.
• “Trade and the Loss of Manufacturing Jobs in the OECD: New Factor Content Calculations for 1978-1995,” IILS Working Paper No. 135, 2002 (co-authored with William Milberg).
• “The Effects of Core Worker Rights on Labour Costs and Foreign Direct Investment: Evaluating the ‘Conventional Wisdom’,” IILS Working Paper No. 130, 2001.
• Gender, Growth and Trade: The Miracle Economies of the Postwar Years, Routledge, 2001.
• “Foreign Trade of Manufactures and Men and Women's Employment and Earnings in Germany and Japan,” International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2001.
• “Labor-Management Relations in Twentieth-Century Japan: A Review Essay,” International Labor and Working Class History, No. 58, 2001.
• “Decent Work and Rights at Work: New Measures of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining,” in The ILO and the Social Challenges of the 21st Century, Roger Blainpain and Chris Engels (eds.), Kluwer, 2001.
• “Measuring Fundamental Rights at Work,” Bulletin of Japan Statistics Research Institute, No. 27, 2001 (in Japanese); Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Vol. 18, Nos. 2,3, 2001.
• “Gender Segregation and Gender Bias in Manufacturing Trade Expansion: Revisiting the ‘Wood Asymmetry,’” World Development, Vol. 28, No. 7, 2000 (co-authored with William Milberg; reprinted in The Feminist Economics of Trade, Routledge, 2007, Irene Van Staveren et al. (eds.)).