Labour / income economics

Low-paid employment is a key issue for labour market policy.

Although Japanese economic development is often discussed, less attention is given to social development, and much less to gender related issues.

This book brings together the work of international economist, labour economists and sociologists in a far-reaching study of global production networks and the challenges they pose for developing country workers.

The contributions collected in this volume take a fresh look at the traditional debate on education, training and labour market outcomes.

This book examines the economic consequences of immigration and asylum migration, it focuses on the economic consequences of legal and illegal immigration as well as placing the study of immigration in a global context.

Although economists have long pointed to the aggregate gains from increased economic integration, the popular perception of globalization is much more pessimistic.

This book explores the complex relationship between social security and economic development, arguing that social security contributes positively to economic development by promoting social investments that not only foster economic growth but enhance social welfare for all.

This book presents a series of research essays on the state of unions in many different parts of the world.

This book is an extensive review of the current state of illegal immigration in Europe and North America whilst providing theoretical analysis.

This book presents a re-examination of classical issues in the relationship between different forms of democratization, civil, political and social, and examines Chile's transition to democracy during the 1990s as a typical case of the modern sequence.

China's workers have been transformed by the transition to capitalism.

Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840.

Uncovering how cash-in-hand economies are composed of not only the underground sector (work akin to formal employment conducted for profit-motivated purposes), but also a hidden economy of favours more akin to mutual aid, this book displays the need to transcend conventional market-oriented readings of cash-in-hand work and radically rethink whether seeking its eradication through tougher regulations is always appropriate.

One of the biggest challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st century is the large scale cross-border movement of people.

This is the first study of the emerging phenomenon of sex workers, asserting that they are entitled to workers' rights.

This book presents conceptual tools and theoretical perspectives that can be used to sociologically analyze labour markets in modern capitalist societies.

Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view.

While the question to why work beyond sixty has now become obvious, the how and for whom questions are the real topic of this new study by one of the best European specialists in the area.

Zagler investigates the interaction between changes in the level of unemployment and changes in the economic rate of growth.

This book provides new evidence on the magnitude and sources of pay inequalities between women and men in European countries and New Zealand on the basis of micro data.

The book offers a concise account of modern Japanese economic history and the essence of postwar macroeconomic issues and policy.

This book analyses the management of human resources in Chinese industry, covering the period from 1949 to present, particularly focusing on the period of economic reforms in the 1980s and early 1990s.

This book examines recent developments in Brazilian labour relations.

Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad.

Transition economies offer a test case for concepts and theories, for broader ideas and for the methods of scientific enquiry, but also for the multiplicity of ideological interpretations.

The book uses an innovative theoretical framework to explain how the EU social dimension has taken its present form.

This book takes a fresh look at the issue of job quality, analyzing employer behaviour and discussing the agenda for policy intervention.

The economic performance of a national economy, as shown by indicators such as the rate of unemployment and inflation, is heavily dependent on the operation of its external and internal labour markets.

This volume explains the salient features of the Japanese labour market.

This book gauges possible development implications of current WTO trade negotiations by examining various proposals and assessing their likely economic impact.

This book examines the role of trade unions vis-a-vis management in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present day.

This book is about the enterprise reform in China in general, and the Contract Management Responsibility System (the CMRS) in particular.

No modern economy can escape open unemployment as long as free labour and a free labour market exist.

This book describes the adoption, growth and subsequent relinquishment of industrial subsidies in the UK, tracing their development back to the early years of this century and following their extension through to virtually every area of economic policy.

John Grieve Smith traces the origins of postwar full employment policies in the experience of the interwar years and the work of Keynes and Beveridge.

Men and women's distinctive roles in productive activity affect their economic independence.

The purpose of this book is to highlight contemporary changes in the world of work and employment by exploring the importance of the informal economy in Western Europe and the United States.

This volume challenges the view that unemployment is exclusively determined by structural characteristics of the labour market and the social benefit system.

In the second half of the 1980s Japan has emerged as one of the new major destination countries for migrants from Asia.

Kalecki's opus has been acknowledged chiefly as a contribution to the theory of distribution and the business cycle.

The outstanding moral problem of our time is the emergence of an underclass, provoking both pity and an angry political backlash.

The purpose of this book is to set out in a comprehensive, but succinct manner, the key points surrounding four economic issues that generate, today, much discussion and debate.

This collection describes the changing structure of employment during the period of robust employment expansion that preceded the credit crunch and features contributions from a team of leading labour market researchers from Europe and the United States.

As a collection of alternative views on societies, methodologies, policies and assessment of the current elements of the society, Alternative Perspectives on a Good Society brings together different authors answering different questions all within the context of visions of a good society.

This book assesses the phenomenon of international framework agreements (IFAs), examining their implementation and impact around the world as well as their promotion of ILO standards.

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy are at the core of research and study in economics.

The financial crisis is destroying wealth but is also a remarkable opportunity to uncover the ways by which debt can be used to regulate the economic system.

Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years.

This book analyzes in what way activation policies impact on given patterns of social citizenship that predominate in national contexts.

Offering a comparative perspective, this book examines working poverty - those in work who are still classified as 'poor'.