Labour / income economics

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago.

Throughout the industrialized world, international migrants serve as nannies, construction workers, gardeners and small-business entrepreneurs.

The development discourse has long been dominated by best practices prescriptions for reform, but these are not a useful way of responding to the governance ambiguities of the early 21st century.

The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible, often at a cost to their personal well-being.

The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible, often at a cost to their personal well-being.

An insightful, persuasive, and honest defense of immigration as central to the United States' economic power and national security.

An insightful, persuasive, and honest defense of immigration as central to the United States' economic power and national security.

This volume provides readers with a straightforward and understandable presentation of the major laws and regulations concerning employment discrimination.

This volume provides readers with a straightforward and understandable presentation of the major laws and regulations concerning employment discrimination.

You hear a lot these days about "e;innovation and entrepreneurship"e; and about how "e;good jobs"e; in tech will save our cities.

You hear a lot these days about "e;innovation and entrepreneurship"e; and about how "e;good jobs"e; in tech will save our cities.

How do journalists know what they know?

How do journalists know what they know?

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020The acclaimed new book from the celebrated author of The Road to Somewhere'Brilliant, will become a classic' Daily Telegraph'Utterly compelling .

'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it.

Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility.

This edited book is the first one in English that demonstrates the innovative use of cutting-edge statistical methods for sociological and social science data.

An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment historiesMillions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills underutilization or face the precariousness of long-term unemployment.

The inside story of an unprecedented feat of science and business.

Automation and Its Macroeconomic Consequences reveals new ways to understand the economic characteristics of our increasing dependence on machines.

This book provides a broad overview of the current research on various aspects of development, with a focus on India.

This book is devoted to offering a new concept of non-employment caused by social exclusion.

More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security.

This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan.

This volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU.

This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism.

In 1965, a family-reunification policy for admitting immigrants to the United States replaced a system that chose immigrants based on their national origin.

On average, people in Europe are living longer, and are in better health.

The in-depth analyses presented in this book have a dual focus: (1) Social mechanisms through which the gender wage gap, gender inequality in the attainment of managerial positions, and gender segregation of occupations are generated in Japan; and (2) Assessments of the effects of firms' gender-egalitarian personnel policies and work-life balance promotion policies on the gender wage gap and the firms' productivity.

An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for workThrough the intimate stories of those seeking work, The Tolls of Uncertainty offers a startling look at the nation's unemployment system-who it helps, who it hurts, and what, if anything, we can do to make it fair.

"e;I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class.

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This book takes a closer look at the societal functions of sports clubs by using the broad range of empirical data of a comparative study.

The methodological and epistemological problem this book studies is related to the heterogeneity of capital.

How American industries rose to dominate the economic landscape in the twentieth centuryFor much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of technological progress.

A guide to the early decisions that can make or break startup venturesOften downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business?

In the American federal system, states actively compete for jobs, business investment, and factory locations.

This book presents over 20 authors' reflections on 'curating care' - and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life and for more 'caring curating' that responds to the social, ecological and political analysis of curatorial caregiving.

Selecting migrants based on skill has become a widely practised migration policy in many countries around the world.

This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy.

This Element explains how divisions between insiders and outsiders among firms and workers in the Arab world hold back development.

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

The economic downturn that began in 2008, the most severe in decades, has hit older Americans hard.

This book takes as a starting point that welfare states in developed societies do not provide systems of social insurance against the risk of an early death.

Politicians, journalists, and the public have expressed rising concern about the decline or percieved decline in middle-class jobs.

Regulatory reform in the late 1970s and early 1980s vastly transformed the labor market for transportation workers.

Volume 20 of "e;Research in Social Stratification and Mobility"e; continues to remain at the forefront of the diverse group of social scientists who study social inequality and is now the official publication of the Social Stratification Research Group of the International Sociological Association (RC-28).

Modern labor economics has continued to grow and develop since the first volumes of this Handbook were published.