Labour Economics

Economic Organization of the British Coal Industry (1934) is a study that shows on the one hand the organization of the coal industry in Britain in...

An adequate, well-trained, and diverse health care workforce is essential for providing access to quality health care services. However, despite mo...

A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regiona...

Chemistry plays a pivotal role in the strength of the U.S. economy and the advancement of humankind. Chemists' achievements include life-saving pha...

Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic...

In recent decades, production processes of intermediate and final products have been increasingly fragmented across countries in what are called gl...

Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to ra...

A mismatch between the federal government's revenues and spending, now and in the foreseeable future, requires heavy borrowing, leading to a large ...

Defining the role of a job coach, this book sets out EU-wide training standards for helping people with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful e...

This book examines gender inequality from the perspective of feminist economics, with empirical application, across different countries such as Tur...

This book examines labor market policy and institutional reforms and their impact on outcomes in the Chinese labor market, utilizing both instituti...

First published in 1974, Employment Policies in Developing Countries is an attempt to take stock of experience that has been acquired in a number o...

This optimistic and useful look at the coming convergence of automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence, shows how we can take advantage of ...

This book provides unique insight into the economic and humanitarian challenges facing Lebanon following the Syrian refugee crisis. It examines the...

This book explores the prospects of a global labour law system. Global labour law is understood as a still non-coherent set ofnorms that at differe...

This is the first book that uses the Harris Todaro (H-T) model to study contemporary economic issues in developing countries, with a particular fo...

This open-access volume accompanies the microdata release of the EU Loneliness Survey. Loneliness, often referred to as the epidemic of the 21st c...

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige....

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige....

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