Labour / income economics

Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy.

This book examines the transformation of Soviet labour ideology during the last decade of the USSR, and its critical relationship to the collapse of the Soviet state.

Published in 1999, Working Europe: Reshaping European employment systems offers a fresh analysis of recent changes in labour markets and the restructuring of welfare states.

The economic performance of a national economy, as shown by indicators such as the rate of unemployment and inflation, is heavily dependent on the operation of its external and internal labour markets.

Christian Ragacs develops contributions to the theory of minimum wages, while taking rationing and spill-over effects on markets other than the labour market into account.

This book addresses one of the most important research activities in empirical macroeconomics.

Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system.

Under the rule of the current economic order, social injustice is ever-increasing.

Avoiding prejudice will be critical to economic success in the fourth industrial revolution.

WHAT IF YOUR BOSS WAS AN ALGORITHM?

This book is a sequel to the World Bank's World Development Report 2013: Jobs.

How and why are European welfare systems and the labour market changing?

The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk links restructuring in three industries to shifts in risk subjectivities and politics, both within workplaces and within the safety management and regulative spheres, often leading to conflict and changes in law, political discourses and management approaches.

South Asia Migration Report 2020 documents key themes of exploitation and entrepreneurship of migrants from the region.

Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book takes stock of major and recent developments in welfare policy in the UK and Germany.

Greece's economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerity policies that have been implemented.

This collection of edited papers, first published in 1990, has two broad sets of objectives.

This volume provides a comprehensive and detailed socio-economic overview of agrarian distress in India which has manifested in the suicides of farmers and agricultural labourers.

This 12th edition of "e;Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms"e; contains a stimulating collection of original papers spanning a wide variety of topics.

This title was first published in 2000: The book will be a set of essays addressing various aspects of regulation.

New industrial centres are emerging in the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), where large numbers of plants have been constructed in recent years, creating many manufacturing jobs.

This book, originally published in 1981, is a major reassessment of the strengths and weaknesses of incomes policies.

On January 27-28, 1999, the NRC Commission on Life Sciences organized "e;Finding the Path: Issues of Access to Research Resources"e;, a conference to explore the breadth of problems and opportunities related to obtaining and transferring research resources.

After the breakdown of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, the role of education systems in preparing students for the "e;real world"e; changed.

First published in 1909 and reissued in 1910, J.

First published in 1999, this volume is about unemployment and discrimination, with a focus on Northern Ireland and its debate over patterns of inequality between unemployed Catholics and Protestants.

Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity.

This Handbook responds to the needs and aspirations of current and future generations of development economists by providing critical reference material alongside or in relation to mainstream propositions.

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.

Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession.

This book addresses topics and issues of high relevance to the widely shared desire to promote inclusive growth, sustainability, and innovation within a context of global governance.

The supposed link between immigration and crime is a highly contentious issue.

Austerity is a concise, accessible overview of austerity policies, their impact on society, and possible alternatives for more just and equitable economic policies.

Available research suggests that less developed countries have significant competitive advantage over developed countries in three major areas of international trade: agriculture, textiles and clothing (T&C), and cross-border labor mobility.

Children in poor countries are subjected to exploitation characterized by low wages and long hours of work, as well as by unclean, unhygienic and unsafe working and living conditions, and, more importantly, by deprivation from education, all of which hampers their physical and mental development.

Title first published in 2003.

This book examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on changing labour markets and accelerating digitalisation of the workplace in Central and Eastern Europe.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book is a collection of working papers, policy briefs and training modules, published by the International Poverty Centre in Brazil, which provides a comprehensives set of recommendations for alternative economic policies that can generate growth, employment and poverty reduction in developing countries.

No modern economy can escape open unemployment as long as free labour and a free labour market exist.

This book, first published in 1974, provides a comprehensive review of the application of economic concepts to the appraisal of transport systems.

A collection of papers in memory of Wassily Leontief, focusing on his contributions to economics.

In the United States alone, there are roughly three million individuals living with a developmental disability, but less than a third are active in the labor market.

Although much has been written on the topic of economic globalization, few volumes examine the social foundations of the global economy in a way that puts power and contestation at the forefront of the analysis.

Global free trade is one of the most controversial phenomena of our time.

First published in 1989, The Technological Behaviour of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries presents essays based on original research work conducted for the International Labour Office, to employ a wide variety of approaches and methodologies to analyse the technological choices made by public enterprises in Tanzania, India, Argentina, and Brazil.

An increasingly globalized world economy creates new economic, cultural, and social opportunities.