Labour / income economics

This Palgrave Pivot re-examines salary formation in Major League Baseball in light of real option theory to clarify the connection between salary and marginal revenue product for professional baseball players.

This title was first published in 2001.

Few issues are as mired in rhetoric and controversy as affirmative action.

The descriptive data in this book, first published in 1989, were obtained from participant observation and interviews with merchant seaman current and retired.

The start of the European monetary union gave additional impetus to the lively debate on the effects of monetary policy and the appropriate strategy for central banks.

Lu Zhang explains how labor relations in the auto industry and broader social economy can be expected to develop in China in the coming decades.

First published in 1988, this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain.

Living standards in the UK and US are in danger of falling.

Volume 16 of "e;Research on Economic"e; contains a selection of thirteen papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July, 2007.

Living standards in the UK and US are in danger of falling.

This book offers a fresh perspective on gender debates in Nepal and analyses how the international migration of the first generation of professional female Nepali nurses has been a catalyst for social change.

Cheap Wage Labour is the first analysis of shore work and shoreworkers in British Columbia from the 1860s to the mid-1980s.

Various editions of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles have served as the Employment Service's basic tool for matching workers and jobs.

Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840.

This book examines the major US welfare programs affecting children and presents a systematic evaluation of the evidence regarding the effects of welfare programs on the children themselves.

Tobacco is reported to be the second major cause of death in the world and there is ever-increasing interest in the costs of smoking, especially in the light of evidence of the health effects of second-hand smoke.

A practical, straight-talking guide to thriving in today's tumultuous workplaceAccording to author Linda Dominguez, today's turbulent work environment is rife with advancement opportunities for those who know how to seize them.

This book examines the importance of work in human well-being, addressing several related philosophical questions about work and arguing on the whole that meaningful work is central in human flourishing.

This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Begriff und Messung der Arbeitsproduktivität im landwirtschattlichen Betrieb" verfügbar.

For the first time, and in one place, Roxi Bahar Hewertson provides decision makers at any supervisory level, exactly what they need to get it right every time they hire, develop, or fire someone.

First published in 1970.

Employment Expansion and Population Growth: The California Experience, 1900-1950 provides a detailed analysis of the dramatic population growth and employment trends that shaped California's development during the first half of the 20th century.

First published in 1980, this book collects 17 lectures presented at the annual conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics covering a wide range issues and debates.

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

Organized labor is about the collective efforts of employees to improve their economic, social, and political position.

Long-running trends towards increasing inequality between the rich and poor across Europe have been exacerbated by the 2008 global financial crisis and its aftermath.

'This book flips your world upside down.

This book explains the role of formal labour market institutions in keeping the labour utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe above the level characteristic for Western European states.

In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared.

First Published in 1952, Problems of Nationalized Industry presents the first serious discussion on the issues related to nationalization of industries in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century.

Originally published in 1997 this book examines the unique nature and characteristics of Silicon Valley and looks at the factors that led to the economic and competitiveness problems of the 1980s.

Modern labor economics has continued to grow and develop since the first volumes of this Handbook were published.

First published in 1975, Workers' Participation in Industry provides a fresh perspective on a highly significant issue.

The ontology of work and the economics of value underpin the legal institution, with the existence of modern law predicated upon the subject as labourer.

The nature of work is changing, due to demographic shifts, globalization, and digitization.

First published in 1959, The Keynesian Theory of Economic Development is perhaps the first systematic attempt to apply post-Keynesian dynamic economics to the problems of underdeveloped countries.

Research on the growth of the precarious economy is of signifi cant interest as the economy increasingly becomes dependent on gig work.

This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan.

This book concentrates on ethnic minorities such as former slaves, outcastes and indigenous peoples dispossessed of homeland.

This book, fist published in 1979, traces the growth of Britain's inland transportation systems, chiefly for goods traffic, by road, canal and railway, from the early seventeenth century to the eve of nationalisation in 1947.

While much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of "e;citizenry"e;.

Islamic Macroeconomics proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and developing countries.

This is a critical and descriptive analysis of the UK construction industry based on up-to-date statistics.

The overarching goal of South Africa's National Development Plan (NDP) is to eliminate poverty, reduce inequality, lower unemployment and increase the labour participation.

Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their families, friends and communities.

As a collection of alternative views on societies, methodologies, policies and assessment of the current elements of the society, Alternative Perspectives on a Good Society brings together different authors answering different questions all within the context of visions of a good society.

Bernan Press proudly presents the 13th edition of Employment, Hours, and Earnings: States and Areas, 2018.

With a growing population, deteriorating economic conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become a trouble spot.

Most developed economies are characterized by high levels of inequality and an inability to provide stability or opportunity for many of their citizens.