Labour / income economics

De-industrialization, accelerated by the financial crisis, is a long term process.

This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization.

This book provides a survey of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional hockey.

In this fourth book by the authors' about public affairs in Delaware, the state's strategies to maintain a business-friendly environment are examined, especially by awarding grants and loans to grow businesses and jobs.

Big companies are using maths to take from the poor and give to the rich.

Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, in particular in low and middle income economies.

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.

Discusses human trafficking out of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet state, and labour migration into and within Russia.

For most countries, women's labor force participation and hours of work has risen while men's have fallen.

The United States has recently witnessed an explosion of personal injury lawsuits involving medical malpractice, unsafe products, and widespread environmental hazards.

This volume documents the continuing growth of concentrated poverty in central cities of the United States and examines what is known about its causes and effects.

Continuities and Discontinuities assesses the making of Canadian social and labour market policy in the context of two factors—globalization and neoconservatism.

This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical and anthropological aspects of the debate.

This volume, the fourth to result from a remarkably productive collaboration between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in the employment practices, labor markets, and health, benefit, and pension policies of the United States and Japan.

This book emphasizes the importance of production politics, or struggles in the workplace between workers and their employers, for understanding migrant labour regimes in Asia and the Gulf.

As an important industry, transportation costs account for a considerable percentage of the gross national product of countries.

This timely book answers complex and perplexing questions raised by Wall Street''s role during the recent financial crisis.

Before the handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong's economic growth was very strong and the unemployment rate dropped to a record low of 2.

This Brief provides a cutting-edge evaluation of the application of digital technologies to tackle the informal economy.

The growth in part-time employment has been one of the most striking features in industrialized economies over the past forty years.

First published in 1977, On the Economic Identification of Social Classes centres around the economic identification - the definition in terms of production relations - of social classes, focussing on the developed capitalist countries.

First published in 1986, this book assesses the politics of the West German trade unions in the context of their larger role as major actors in the polity.

Low industrial growth, declining agricultural sector and limited expansion of formal sector employment in India have increasingly forced the poor to take recourse to informal sources of livelihoods.

This book explores the dynamics and challenges of building an industrial workforce and industrialisation in Africa.

In this the third of a series of studies of the history of organized labor in Latin America and the Caribean, Alexander explores the history of the Argentine labor movement from the mid-19th century onward.

How can the EU's community of welfare states adapt their public policies to economic globalization?

This book brings together leading scholars in the field to provide insights on economics of education.

This book deals with the economic impact of technological changes and the rise of passenger shipping on social relations on board and ashore in European shipping industries between c.

This book examines the changing character of commercial technology development and diffusion in an integrated global economy and its implications for U.

This book considers the issues facing contemporary Japan as it struggles to adapt its employment system to the global economy.

The Second Paycheck: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Earnings is a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic aspects of earnings, with emphasis on the dynamic labor supply behavior of men and women.

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.

What keeps people in jobs or occupations is the central theme of four studies that interpret workers' attitudes toward job-changing in the light of their work experience as well as their expectations for the future.

Widely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the Cold War, a history that created the context for the sanitation workers' strike that brought Dr.

This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques.

The articles in this volume, originally published in a variety of journals between 1890 and 1937, deal with the themes of the distribution of income and welfare.

First published in 1990.

With unemployment at historically high rates that show signs of becoming structural, there is a pressing need for an in-depth exploration of this economic injustice.

Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'.

The increase in practical problems generated by the intensive growth in air transport has necessitated the development of specialised operations research methods and modern computer technology.

Originally published in 1995, this book explores a number of subjects of significance for labor and economic policy, especially the role of U.

Throughout the last decade, the 'gig economy' has emerged as one of the most significant developments in the world of work.