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"Using a recent and rich Spanish data set on immigrants, we examine the impact of legal status on two measures of labor market performance: the likelihood of being employed and earnings. The Spanish case is of special interest given the rapid increase in immigration over the past 15 years and the large number of amnesties granted during the 1990s and 2000s. We find that a 10 per cent increase in the share of legal immigrants would raise the overall employment likelihood of immigrants by 4 percentage points and their earnings by 3.3 per cent. The results, which prove robust to alternative sample specifications, confirm the well-known importance of being legal for the economic assimilation of immigrants."

"Non-union employee associations are neither banned nor protected in Canada. Issues arise when the employer's intent, or the effect of these associations, thwarts unions or deprives employees of their right to unionize. Thirty Canadian cases are examined involving: (i) employee associations applying for union status; (ii) non-union associations colliding with union organizing campaigns and (iii) the Supreme Court case favouring a non-union plan for the national police over unionization."

"Les activités de service public sont par essence des activités essentielles, exercées encore principalement par des travailleurs de la fonction publique. La loi du 6 août 2019 qui entend transformer - en la libéralisant -la fonction publique remet en cause le(s) statut (si de la fonction publique, pour une meilleure « efficacité » des services publics. Mais ne peut-on pas affirmer, en cette période de crise, que, sans le(s) statut(s), les services publics auraient été moins efficaces ?"

"Chinese law has not yet clearly addressed the employment status of platform workers, whose work is allocated to individuals in a specific geographical area via location-based apps. This study investigates how the workers themselves, as the key constituent group, understand their legal status. Drawing on interviews with food delivery riders and participant observation, it applies legal consciousness theory to explore how riders interpret, construct, and invoke law in a largely unregulated area. The findings reveal that riders, despite holding contradictory perceptions of their work arrangements and legal status, more often rely on informal expressions of dissatisfaction or anger and acts of ‘everyday resistance' than formal claims or collective action. The study shows that riders' legal consciousness is shaped by their' ambiguous legal status and socioeconomic position and is grounded more in rules than in rights. Moreover, current legal responses reinforce existing social inequalities, leaving riders in a precarious position with limited recourse."

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