Labour / income economics

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.

Outlining important policy requirements for Bangladesh to become an upper middle-income country, the book presents research work conducted during the project "e;Changing Labor Markets in Bangladesh: Understanding Dynamics in Relation to Economic Growth and Poverty,"e; sponsored by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada.

WHAT IF YOUR BOSS WAS AN ALGORITHM?

With growing economic inequality and threats to the sustainability of human societies, Koh argues that cooperatives can play an important role in promoting decent work and reducing economic inequality in the twenty-first century and thus urges policy makers to reignite policy discussions on cooperatives.

What will be the shape of the German economy and its labour market in 20 years time?

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.

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its status as a world economic leader.

This book bridges the gap between theoretical and empirical understandings of the informal sector to provide insight into the role of the informal sector within the development process.

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy-the second largest in the world.

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.

The decade of 1980s was one of crisis for Africa.

Thema dieses Buches ist eine breite Darstellung des Gebietes Arbeitsmarktökonomik, wie sie bisher in der deutschsprachigen Literatur kaum zu finden ist.

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 book focuses on the high-income Asia that experienced fast economic growth and rapid demographic change in recent decades.

The TUC Overseas (1986) traces the decisions made by the Trades Union Congress in response to domestic and external influences and events, from its establishment of a joint international committee with the Labour Party in 1917 to the first congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions in 1945.

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.

Named one of the Best Business Books of 2023 by the Financial TimesThinkers50 2023 Winner: Talent AwardFrom MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on Good Jobs comes a leadership guide for choosing excellence and providing good jobs that offer a living wage, dignity, and opportunities for growth.

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.

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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 examines labor market policy and institutional reforms and their impact on outcomes in the Chinese labor market, utilizing both institutional and empirical study perspectives.

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.

This book examines the inclusive development experiences and impacts of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

Tested, practical ideas to meet current and future skilling needs of both workers and employersThe labor market in the United States faces seemingly contradictory challenges: Many employers have trouble finding qualified applicants for current and future jobs, while millions of Americans are out of work or are underemployed-their paths to living-wage jobs blocked by systemic barriers or lack of adequate skills.

This book examines unemployment insurance policy through a survey, taking stock of the theoretical work in the field of labor economics.

This volume contains an Open Access chapter.

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.