Labour / income economics

This book introduces readers to the concept and theories of decent work and provides a framework for measuring it at the micro, meso and macro level in a given country.

Asia is graying rapidly: its share of senior population aged 65 and over will double from 9.

This book reappraises the Japanese employment system, characterized by such practices as the periodic recruiting of new graduates, lifetime employment and seniority-based wages, which were praised as sources of high productivity and flexibility for Japanese firms during the period of high economic growth from the middle of the 1950s until the burst of bubbles in the early 1990s.

The annual Asian Development Outlook analyzes economic performance in the past year and offers forecasts for the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia.

This book provides a systemic and detailed monographic study of Chinese outbound migration.

White-Collar Proletariat (1980) explores the major changes in the industrial and political behaviour of British civil servants in the 1970s.

By assessing the transition in enterprise-employee relations in China over the six decades since the founding of the nation and the three decades since the implementation of a reform and opening up policy, this book investigates these changes from three key perspectives: occupation, operation and governance.

This book serves as a textbook on labour economics and public policy in labour markets.

This book offers a collection of distinguished contributions that identify current growth accelerators in India, and suggest policies and strategies to make India's growth more sustainable and inclusive.

Outlining important policy requirements for Bangladesh to become an upper middle-income country, the book presents research work conducted during the project "e;Changing Labor Markets in Bangladesh: Understanding Dynamics in Relation to Economic Growth and Poverty,"e; sponsored by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada.

Written by Emeritus Professor LIM Chong-Yah, Founding Chairman of the tripartite National Wages Council (NWC), this unique volume offers readers an insider's view of the genesis and the evolution of the wage determination mechanism and system in Singapore under the aegis of the NWC.

This book explores the dynamic process of International Division of Labor with constant development and changes.

The book explains the problem of insufficient capital accumulation and growth in a less developed country.

The book argues that an increasing corporatisation of agriculture in India that is enabled by its neoliberal State, in the name of 'development', is contributing towards deepening of inequality in the rural India.

This book utilizes the School to Work Transition Survey (SWTS) of the ILO to discuss what shapes an individual worker's decision to participate in unionization and how her working condition is affected by that.

This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions.

This book empirically investigates the changes in labor market structure accompanying the labor market reform in China by focusing on the labor market segmentation problems from the 1980s to 2013.

This is the first study that puts together a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the drivers of the labor income share across a number of countries in Asia.

This book examines the effectiveness of trade and non-trade policies to combat the menace of child labour.

This book introduces a framework to assist human resource practitioners and organisations embrace strategies that will drive high engagement levels within organisations with a union presence.

This book is about labor income share, which measures the share of national income paid in wages.

This book develops an understanding of workplace justice and labour rights in Vietnam from factory workers' voices and their resistance against abuse and exploitation.

This book focuses on informal workers and margins and seeks to advance the discourse on the concepts of 'work', 'workers' and 'margins'.

This book is a collection of fifteen contributions that undertake a detailed analysis of seven broad dimensions of India's economy and society.

This book compares legally allowed dismissal conditions in employment contracts in Taiwan and Japan and then examines the possibility of introducing the Taiwan-style severance payment system into Japanese employment contracts.

This book provides a focus on some of the main markers and challenges that are at the core of the study of structural transformations in contemporary capitalism and their implications for labour in the Global South.

This book shows that basic income is a powerful tool for realizing economic justice in our modern society.

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work.

Industrial Relations and Health Services (1982) provides a comparative treatment of labour and industrial relations in health services in Canada, Britain and the USA.

'One of the most original and talented young writers we have.

The first volume focuses on globalization, international migration, employment, labour agency, technological change, and labour resilience.

This book, the second of two volumes, explores the transformations to the labour market observed since the offi cial end of the Cold War in 1991.

This book is Karl Widerquist's first statement of the "e;indepentarian"e; theory of property, called, "e;Justice as the Pursuit of Accord"e; (JPA).

This book presents the most compelling arguments for and against implementing a basic income guarantee today, in the voice of proponents and critics, in alternating chapters.

This book asks anew whether there really was European integration before 1914.

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

Manpower Profile India Yearbook is an annual publication of the Institute of Applied Manpower Research.

The Title Levels Trends and Structure of Workforce written/authored/edited by R.

This book aims to empirically and theoretically study how income inequality and demographic change affected fiscal policy and subsequent economic growth globally in the past decades from four perspectives.

Ageing populations pose some of the foremost global challenges of this century.

This book aims to empirically and theoretically study how income inequality and demographic change affected fiscal policy and subsequent economic growth globally in the past decades from four perspectives.

Contents include: Introduction and Summary Public Policy Implications of Declining Old-Age Mortality Aging the Ability to Work: Policy Issues and Recent Trends Occupational Effects on the Health and Work Capacity of Older Men Involuntary Early Retirement and Consumption Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Social Security: A Time-Series Analysis Life Insurance of the Elderly: Its Adequacy and Determinant

Most scholarship on corporate governance in the last two decades has focused on the relationships between shareholders and managers or directors.

- Von der DATEV-Programmeinführung bis zum Jahresabschluss.

Will technological improvement and growth in the rest of the world cause a decline in American living standards?

This unbiased look at the minimum wage debate in America traces the history of minimum wage policy at both the federal and state levels, discusses the controversies swirling around the issue, and examines the veracity of claims made by people on both sides of the debate.