Labour / income economics

This book offers a timely exploration of how climate change manifests in the global workplace.

The Economics of Urban Diversity explores ethnic and religious minorities in urban economies.

The future of work in advanced industrial democracies is the subject of intense debate and public concern.

Despite Canada's economic success over the past thirty years, the country's ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other industrialized nations.

This contributed volume seeks to provide a unique window on the globalization process by analyzing the dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe and Asia, as well as its influence on the renewal of public policies and regulations, both transnational and local.

Published in 1997.

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

First Published in 1952, Problems of Nationalized Industry presents the first serious discussion on the issues related to nationalization of industries in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century.

Originally published in 1982, this book begins with a wide-ranging and critical review of both first and second generation theories of inflation (and the related problem of unemployment), including the classical approach to macroeconomics.

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

In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor.

The decline of the U.

Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe.

The rate of economic change in East Asia over the past two decades has been astounding.

The growing inequality in the global economy across the planet is reaching unprecedented levels.

​​Der Faktormarkt für Arbeit lässt sich aufgrund fortschreitender Spezialisierungsanforderungen, räumlicher Friktionen und sozialer Interdependenzen durch perfekt kompetitive Strukturen nur unzureichend beschreiben.

First published in 1987.

Using a nationally representative data set, this book examines the characteristics of Chinese college students' mobility since the expansion of higher education.

Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor industry of 1956 merited a full-scale investigation.

The eighteen years when William Beveridge was Director of the LSE, saw some of the School's greatest expansion.

Will machines replace humans?

Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn t.

This book explores endogenous institutional change and the global, cyclical, and power-based drivers that underpin it.

A country's economic productivity is directly related to the health of its workforce.

Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994.

Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based economy, i.

Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its application in business for sustainable development.

This book provides a detailed account of the lives of the poor, particularly their use of social networks to meet everyday needs.

This book, which was first published in 1972, is not a collection of case-studies in cost-benefit analysis, of which there had been already several in use employing techniques of varying degrees of sophistication.

This new volume delves deeply into vital economic challenges that countries face as impacted by epidemics, inflation, recessions, wars, social uprising, and myriad other economic and social issues and events.

This title was first published in 2001.

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home became a global phenomenon, yet before 2020, it was a relatively understudied practice.

This book focuses on the gender-specific labour force participation rates across regions in India and identifies its most important determinants.

Since 1945 preventing runaway wage inflation has been regarded as a key policy in managing an economy in a successful way.

This book addresses the challenges facing stable democratic states in dealing with oil companies in order to secure general welfare gains.

India Higher Education Report 2020 critically analyzes the role played by the state, industries, and higher education institutions in the employment and employability of educated youth in India.

Originally published in 1994 this book undertakes a comprehensive study dealing with the effects of machine flexibility, tool magazine capacity, varying production demands and different oeprating policies on the production planning problems.

Mobilities within the European Union (EU) have changed significantly since the classical intra-regional migrations of the 1950s-1970s.

The great inter-war depression has long been seen as an unprecedented economic disaster for the peoples of the non-European world.

Explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.

This book, originally published in 1975, deals with the sources of economic growth, inflation and the prospects of bringing it under control, floating exchange rates and restrictions on international capital movements.

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