Labour / income economics

Leading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future of the welfare state in Europe.

How do we measure happiness?

How can the EU's community of welfare states adapt their public policies to economic globalization?

Increasing labour market flexibility is at the top of the European agenda.

Developed countries, especially in Europe, face a number of issue related to migration: social and economic disruptions caused by the declining demand for unskilled labour and resulting unemployment, a shortage of skilled labour in many professions, increasing international competition for highly qualified human capital, radical demographic changes, and the forthcoming expansion of the European Union, which will trigger further immigration into major European countries and create new market opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic inequality in highly developed countries.

This book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been changing over time.

Covering employment and wage gender gaps, participation of women, fertility, and the welfare of children, this insightful volume considers the trend towards greater particiption of women in labour markets.

Personnel economics, the use of economics for studying human resource issues, is becoming a standard course in business and economics departments around the world.

This book breaks new ground by bringing together recent research into the determinants of marginalization risks for the unemployed and research into new social policies for combating marginalization.

Children throughout the world are engaged in a great number of activities classifiable as work.

This book offers an account of the performance of the welfare state in the European Union, and explores its future prospects in an ever evolving setting.

The stagnation of the Japanese economy and the ageing of Japanese society has led to major changes in the labour market in Japan.

China's remarkable economic transition and capacity for dynamic growth has stunned the world.

In this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading scholars detail the wide variety of responses in twelve countries.

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind.

How do we measure happiness?

The original book published with the IZA, this work presents and analyzes the work of one of the most important economists of the 20th century - Jacob Mincer.

While Europe is certainly one of the richest and most educated areas of the world, some of the challenges faced by the old continent are staggering: low economic growth, structural difficulties in the labour market, and increasing international competition.

Europe's mass unemployment and the call for extensive labour market de-regulation have, perhaps more than any other contemporary issue, impassioned political debate and academic research.

A Theory of Employment Systems considers why there are such great international differences in the way employment relations are organized within the firm.

In the last 25 years, Europe has experienced a reduction in growth and an explosion in unemployment.

This new textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the key issues facing multinational corporations (MNCs) in their management of human resources across diverse national boundaries.

When seeking to bench mark the performance of European economies, commentators often look to compare them to the economies of Japan and the United States.

A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved.

A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved.

This book addresses one of the most topical and pressing areas of inequality experienced by women in the UK: inequality in the labour market.

'This is the second book of a two-volume set that continues Adam Smith's work, using the tools mathematical, experimental, and behavioural economists have developed since 1776.

Most countries implement social protection programs to help individuals manage risks such as unemployment, disability, illness, longevity or death.

Across welfare societies we have seen the emergence of policies and norms for work-life balance alongside rising expectations among working parents to be able to participate in employment and caregiving, and to have more time for family life and leisure.

Corporate Governance, Employee Voice, and Work Organization explores the dynamic relations between corporate governance, employee voice, and the organization of work in the automotive supply industry.

What types of jobs are growing: well-paid managerial jobs or low-paid auxiliary jobs, high-end professional jobs or bottom-end service jobs?

This book presents a series of research articles written over the past four decades by leading economists George J.

The 2008 financial crisis put an end to an era of sustained economic growth in Europe.

This volumes examines the interaction of labour market conditions and retirement decisions.

De-industrialization, accelerated by the financial crisis, is a long term process.

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity.

Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity.

Over the last 50 years, Dubai has transformed itself from a small fishing and trading village into an integrated, modern, and vibrant economy.

Over the last 50 years, Dubai has transformed itself from a small fishing and trading village into an integrated, modern, and vibrant economy.

Over the last 30 years, Economic Policy has strived to produce policy relevant and rigorous analyses of the economic challenges of the time.

Over the last 30 years, Economic Policy has strived to produce policy relevant and rigorous analyses of the economic challenges of the time.

This book is a sequel to the World Bank's World Development Report 2013: Jobs.

This book is a sequel to the World Bank's World Development Report 2013: Jobs.

This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries.

This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries.

This volume presents Richard Blundell's outstanding research on the modern economic analysis of labor markets and public policy reforms.

Getting Welfare to Work traces the radical reform of the Australian, UK, and Dutch public employment services systems.

This book fills an important gap in the knowledge about labor market conditions in Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings, and it analyzes the results of the latest round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey carried out in early 2012.

This book fills an important gap in the knowledge about labor market conditions in Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings, and it analyzes the results of the latest round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey carried out in early 2012.