Labour / income economics

The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic.

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

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Soviet Geography (1935) presents a comprehensive account of the economic development of the USSR as it stood at the time.

This book exposes how the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), using erroneous data, have developed and perpetuated the belief that "e;small business creates all the new jobs"e;.

Improving Industrial Relations (1985) presents and discusses the findings of research into the advisory function of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS).

Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18-34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy).

This book examines the global and domestic factors that have influenced the decline of South African manufacturing.

Originally published in 1987, at a time of high unemployment, this book provides a critical analysis of the role played by education in solving unemployment.

Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed.

National Wages Policy in War and Peace (1958) examines the thorny issue of inflation prevention, looking at a host of Western economies in the wartime and postwar period.

The preoccupation with the unemployment-crime link has meant that a number of other concerns about the way that unemployment affects the criminal justice system, and ways of dealing with offenders, have been largely ignored.

The game-theoretic modelling of negotiations has been an active research area for the past five decades, that started with the seminal work by Nobel laureate John Nash in the early 1950s.

A demonstration of how economics is used (and sometimes abused) in competition cases in practical competition policy across Europe.

Controlling costs in health care is rarely something that can be tackled in isolation.

Under communism there was, in the countries of Eastern Europe, a high level of gender equality in the labour market, particularly in terms of high participation rates by women.

Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender inequality within economic, sociological, and legal organization.

This book analyzes three points: employment conditions for migrant workers, the impact of industrialization as part of industrial clusters upon surrounding and outlying villages, and the labour market in industrial clusters.

This book examines the facts concerning child labour in Latin America, how it varies over time; across countries; and in comparison to other areas of the world.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zu einigen Fragen der produktiven Arbeit und der Arbeitsproduktivität" verfügbar.

Beveridge defined full employment as a state where there are slightly more vacant jobs than there are available workers, or not more than 3% of the total workforce.

This edited volume brings together international and national scholars and major activists leading or spearheading basic income guarantee political initiatives in their respective countries.

How do people survive and thrive in the uncertain and risk-prone Sahel?

Written in honour of Kaushik Basu, Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development is a celebration of over forty years of contributions to development economics.

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women?

This book explores the experience of China's migrant labourers in Shanghai from anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in Turkey's labour dispute resolution system, and helps compare the Turkish system especially with those in European countries.

Work and Idleness develops the view that redistributing employment is a `feasible capitalist' solution, not just to the unemployment which particular groups suffer, but also to the work that others have to contend with, including many women.

Industrial Relations (1968) discusses the impact of the changing industrial relations environment on the supply of labour, trade unions, management, collective bargaining, wage policy, factory level relationships, industrial social policy, the law, politics and public policy and its administration in the labour field.

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

Economic and financial crises have become perennial features of today's global economy.

Principles of Private and Public Planning (1951) looks at a key economic question: plan or no plan?

In its pursuit of economic integration, economic and monetary union (EMU) had become a primary commitment for the European Community.

First published in 1978.

Originally published in 1972, Incomes Policy and the Public Sector is a consideration of the work conducted by The National Board for Prices and Incomes from 1965 to 1970.

Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program in the context of the country's changing welfare state.

Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies from Finland, Greece and Japan.

Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment.

This book, originally published in 1984, established the need for a strategic managerial response to the new technology, which relies on an understanding of the real effects of technology - on organisational structure, manageemnt style and employee relations.

The Oil Industry in India (1971) examines the issues relating to the oil industry of an oil-importing country, and was the first of its kind.

First published in 1986, this work reports the results of the Leverhulme project on multinationals and intermediate product trade based at the University of Reading during the academic year 1982/3.