Labour / income economics

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.

This book looks at the dynamic relationship between women's productive and reproductive work in a Global South country from a Global South perspective.

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

This book explores how migrants and refugees can revitalise peripheral regions and communities economically.

This book explores how migrants and refugees can revitalise peripheral regions and communities economically.

Out of the Darkness is based on the true story of a nineteenth-century child coal miner rising out of the ashes of poverty and tragedy to change the world.

El presente libro se propone recorrer la economía con lentes violetas, para democratizarla y acercarla a los problemas urgentes.

Surveys the history of youth unemployment and identifies key issues underlying the current crisis.

Over the course of the 19th century, European societies started thinking of themselves as "e;civilisations of work.

Gender equality is not just about fairness and equity; it is also about economic empowerment and economic growth.

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.

The main novelty of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the entry of robots and Artificial Intelligence into the production process.

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.

Human capital and organizational capital are increasingly important as a source of value in many firms.

This book proposes a new and original analysis of tourism employment in order to understand the multiple dimensions (economic, cultural, temporal, geographical, etc.

This book proposes a new and original analysis of tourism employment in order to understand the multiple dimensions (economic, cultural, temporal, geographical, etc.

The main novelty of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the entry of robots and Artificial Intelligence into the production process.

In Hungary, women are much less likely than men to be in paid work.

Over the course of the 19th century, European societies started thinking of themselves as "e;civilisations of work.

This book looks at the dynamic relationship between women's productive and reproductive work in a Global South country from a Global South perspective.

Saudi Arabia (1986) is a major study of the political and administrative development of Saudi Arabia following its establishment as a leading world exporter of oil.

Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution.

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East.

Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development.

This book investigates how global value chain governance, public institutions and strategies in the area of industrial policy and industrial relations by stakeholders such as national or global trade unions, governments, companies or international NGOs shape upgrading in the Global South.

This book explores and traces the progressive activism and radical ideas of several elite women in Italy beginning in the early 20th century.

This volume explores the reasons behind, and impact of, the migration of South Asian nationals (from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan and Maldives, Afghanistan and Myanmar) in the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Bahrain).

An introduction to work and society for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Luigi L.

This book delivers the fascinating account of one Western family's time living and working in China.

Purpose and a Paycheck tells the compelling story of how a growing movement of older entrepreneurs and part-time workers are creating a stronger and more vibrant economy.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics that structure women's paid work and unpaid care work experience in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Great Recession not only shook Americans' economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions.

This book seeks new perspectives on the growing inequalities that our societies face, putting forward Structured Additive Distributional Regression as a means of statistical analysis that circumvents the common problem of analytical reduction to simple point estimators.

A flexible labour market is widely regarded as a key factor in encouraging economic growth and prosperity.