Labour / income economics

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

This book provides a set of proposals for how best to guarantee effective enforcement of labour rights worldwide.

This volume looks at the challenges faced by the economy and society in Punjab, India.

This is the first book that uses the Harris - Todaro (H-T) model to study contemporary economic issues in developing countries, with a particular focus on China.

For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies.

First published in 1992, this volume brings together contemporary studies and reviews the research which established the study of networks as an area in its own right.

Workers' Earnings and Corporate Economic Structure investigates the role of economic structure in determining employees' earnings and how workplace organization contributes to social inequality.

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.

Originally published in 1970.

Soviet Management and Labor Relations (1988) examines the official model of Soviet labor relations and the operational reality.

Governments in the US, the UK and other nations around the world routinely consider and, in some cases, experiment with reforms of their income support systems.

This Element analyzes the roots of labor weakness in the region and assesses the contemporary state of labor movements there.

In 1938, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) sent communist union organizer Arthur "e;Slim"e; Evans to the smelter city of Trail, British Columbia, to establish Local 480 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.

The topics of unemployment, underemployment, wage trends and patterns, and the relationship between poverty and the labour market are of interest to all policy makers, researchers, academics and journalists concerned with economic development.

There is enormous inequality between the income and wealth of the richest 1 percent and all other Americans.

The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyistFounded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers-NAM-helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century.

La presente obra se enfoca en el análisis del tratamiento fiscal, laboral y de seguridad social de las nóminas, además de cada una de sus partidas como sueldos y salarios, tiempo extra, días de descanso, prima (dominical, vacacional y de antigüedad), vacaciones, aguinaldo, participación de los trabajadores en las utilidades de las empresas (PTU), previsión social, despensas, premios por asistencia y puntualidad, comisiones y propinas, entre otros.

How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop is an empirically based exploration of the challenges and opportunities non-permanent workers face in accessing quality work, learning, developing occupational identities and striving for sustainable working lives.

The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution has prompted companies to adapt to a new business paradigm based on digital interconnection and the ability to respond quickly to the needs of consumers and users.

Many people with health problems or disabilities leave the labour market permanently even if they still can and want to work.

In Western Europe, the notion of social exclusion is rapidly diffusing in recent years.

Originally published in 1978.

The editors have chosen substantial extracts to illustrate the major themes and ideas in Beveridge's writing over a period of more than four decades, ranging from his book Unemployment, published in 1909, to the Beveridge Report of 1942 and beyond.

COVID-19 impacted economic activity in a way that hurt households, businesses, industries, and governments.

Economically and politically, North Sea oil very quickly became of vital importance to Britain.

The economic recession of the 1980s changed the face of industrial relations in Britain.

This book offers insights into the process and the practice of local economic development.

Working for Ford (1984) describes just what it is like to work in a car factory, very often in the words of the workers themselves.

A collection of papers which analyzes and measures unemployment as a search activity, discusses efficiency wage models and which considers the impact of government and unions on employment and unemployment.

The transformation of the Vietnamese economy from socialist planning to a market economy has led to Vietnam having one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world; and to also to Vietnam engaging much more with the international economy, joining the World Trade Organisation in 2006.

This title was first published in 2002: Advancing the understanding of a transition society, this book presents an in-depth analysis of social structures in modern Russia.

What do human beings do when they work, how is work organized, and what are its multidimensional - economic, social, political, biographical, ecological - effects?

This book critically examines the socio-economic impacts of out-migration on households and gender dynamics in rural northern India.

This book is concerned with the gender order of post-Fordism, and especially the labour demanded from many women by post-Fordist capitalism.

Trade Unions and European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integration.

Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part of the so-called BRICS.

This book is about the relationship between firm dynamics, innovation and globalization, the processes that are essential for long term economic growth and welfare creation.

Originally published in 1989 this book gives an overview of the empirical work on new technology objectives, together with an analysis of management strategies for adoption at the corporate, technological and people levels.

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Mit der Gründung der EWU hat sich das Bild Europas aus wirtschaftspolitischer Sicht grundlegend gewandelt.

This work investigates the time series properties of the unemployment rate of the Spanish regions over the period 1976-2011.