Labour / income economics

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What kinds of jobs did children do in the past, and how widespread was their employment?

This volume argues that while labour market reforms may be necessary in some specific cases, by no means are labour market policies the main explanation for the widespread increase in unemployment and underemployment across Asia and country specific studies undermine the case for across-the-board labour market reforms.

The contributors rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of the Maghrib.

Production workers continue to be an important group in the economy.

This book examines the facts concerning child labour in Latin America, how it varies over time; across countries; and in comparison to other areas of the world.

Leading experts analyze the impact of the rapid growth of offshore outsourcing in manufacturing and IT.

This book examines the transformation of Soviet labour ideology during the last decade of the USSR, and its critical relationship to the collapse of the Soviet state.

Leading experts examine, for the first time, the impact of New Labour policies on the labour market over the past 5 years.

Many commentators expected the Russian trade unions to collapse along with the system of which they were an integral part, but the trade unions survived the storms of the Yeltsin era by adopting a strategy of 'social partnership'.

This volume discusses the latest techniques and their economic applications for modern industries like computer, pharmaceutical, banking and other manufacturing.

This collection contributes to key theoretical debates about women workers in Asia and breaks new ground by focussing on issues that have been little documented in other studies in the area.

The plight of women in post-reform Russia has its roots in the combination of the new, untrammelled market system and the old legacy of discrimination.

Christian Ragacs develops contributions to the theory of minimum wages, while taking rationing and spill-over effects on markets other than the labour market into account.

Based on a unique comparative analysis of the education and work experiences of those who lived through the political and labour market changes of the transition to post-communism, the authors argue that, far from catching up with the rest of Germany, the social polarisations and erosion of the traditional 'dual system' of vocational education and training in Eastern Germany may portend the future for the West.

The start of the European monetary union gave additional impetus to the lively debate on the effects of monetary policy and the appropriate strategy for central banks.

This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences, analyzing in detail the regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing, the gap between the coastal regions and the interior regions, and urban-rural disparity.

Though labour market regulations have been blamed for the poor economic performance of many developing countries, the evidence on which this argument rests is weak.

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.