Labour / income economics

In 1989, Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term "e;intersectionality"e; to describe the interdependent and overlapping systems of discrimination and disadvantage that result from the interconnected nature of social categorizations.

Examining the crucial topic of race relations, this book explores the economic and social environments that play a significant role in determining economic outcomes and why racial disparities persist.

In this volume, we examine the challenges and opportunities created by global migration at the start of the 21st century.

This textbook introduces graduate and upper undergraduate students to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models.

As the pace of economic change seems to only quicken, including rapid technological advance, today's advanced economies face uncertainty from a number of directions, most of which have the potential to change established modes of thinking and the institutional arrangements that underpin basic economic organization.

This book explores the effects of product market and labour market reforms on firms, labour institutions and labour rights in the economic and industrial relations system in India.

This book critically explores how increased regulation and governance of corporations can be used to help improve the rights of workers amidst an era of union decline.

This volume presents current research on gender studies in the specific context of the knowledge economy.

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies.

When this book was first published in 1967, it was one of the first pieces of research to systematically examine the manpower problems associated with rapidly changing technology.

This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin's call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples.

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West.

Viele Menschen träumen vom schnellen und leichten Reichtum.

This reissue, first published in 1982, is the first of two volumes on the causes and cure of Stagflation - the two-headed monster that combines mass unemployment with rapid inflation, which affected contemporary economies across the industrially developped world in the 1970s.

Die Wiedervereinigung der beiden deutschen Nachkriegsstaaten hatte kein historisches Vorbild.

Turkey has experienced growth in both the population and the workforce.

Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die Entstehung eines Berufsethos, des Anspruchs der Gesellschaft an den Einzelnen und die Möglichkeit der persönlichen Entwicklung im aktuellen Wirtschaftsgefüge.

Marwick argues that economic development in Scotland was severely delayed until the 18th Century unlike neighbouring countries.

Originally published in 1999, this volume integrates several streams of research on the antecedents of innovation to test a model of individual innovative behavior in a high technology product development organization.

This book presents the economic heartbeat and institutional details that shaped Athenian society during the Classical period (508-323 BCE), employing an innovative and outside-the-box approach to studying history.

This book brings together contributions that explore various dimensions of the pandemic from a long-term development perspective.

This book, first published in 1963, uses the framework of the author's Fundamentals of Management for studying the management of transport undertakings.

"e;This timely book provides a wide-ranging and insightful discussion of how labor market institutions and policies influence the mechanisms of economic integration and how economic integration inturn is likely to influence key features of labor markets.

This book is a coherent and unique collection of chapters exploring the reception and diffusion of David Ricardo's writings in different languages.

This report uses rich administrative data from different registers in Finland to evaluate the impact of two types of training available to jobseekers: labour market training; and self-motivated training.

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

Unfreedom and Waged Work: Labour in India's Manufacturing Industry provides an update on the debates relating to the work and welfare of industrial labour in India.

China witnessed an unprecedented economic boom in the past four decades but will soon see the end of "e;demographic dividend"e;.

*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*Although widely criticised and hugely wasteful, The Common Agricultural Policy did at least afford British farmers a degree of support.

This book examines the structural changes in the labour market in North-East India.

First published in 1986, this work reports the results of the Leverhulme project on multinationals and intermediate product trade based at the University of Reading during the academic year 1982/3.

Recent decades have witnessed both a renewed energy in feminist activism and widespread attacks taking back hard-won rights.

This is a darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability.

Free market capitalism has created a divided American society.

This volume explores the implications of student mobility on higher education across the Asia Pacific Region.

Work and Enterprise Culture examines the world of work in the light of the major changes that have occurred over the last decade.

This book explores the adverse economic effects of discriminatory language against LGBTQ+ people.

This book combines demand-led growth models and the institutionalist approach, in order to explain the macroeconomic performance of the main European countries in recent years followed by which a coherent explanation of the institutional change since the Great Recession, including the economic policy response to the economic and financial crisis (2008) and to the debt crisis (2010) is provided.

This book presents an integrated overview and evidence, taking Japan as an example, on how international trade, especially with developing countries, affects labor market in developed countries, which has been keenly debated among international and labor economists since the late 1980s.

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

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Originally published in 1979, this reader presents an industrialist view of the labour market and economics as they stood at the time in the United States.

Originally published in 1978 Urbanization and Labour Markets is a useful companion for those studying in geography, economics or development studies.

In the 1990s, states in what would become the eastern edge of the European Union transformed their political systems and economies, leaving state socialism behind for liberal democracies and free markets.

This book presents a probabilistic approach to studying the fundamental role of labor in capitalist economies and develops a non-deterministic theoretical framework for the foundations of political economy.

Measuring Underemployment: Demographic Indicators for the United States discusses the Labor Utilization Framework of Hauser and Sullivan, which is a measurement scheme that posits the existence of three dimensions, or forms, of underemployment- time, income, and skill-utilization.