Labour Economics

This book discusses the equity versus efficiency approach emphasising the importance of incentives that would predict a positive relationship betwe...

For the majority of employees in the US and elsewhere, their job is by far their most important property; with jobs providing not only a principal ...

The number of workers age 55 and over experiencing long-term unemployment has grown substantially since the recession. This raises concerns about h...

This book explores the possible economic implications of large shifts in the supply of foreign-born, hired farm labour that could result from subst...

The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high u...

Labour market differences among the race and ethnicity groups are associated with many factors, not all of which are measurable. These factors incl...

There is little doubt that significant income inequality persists across as well as within countries, and that wage differential exists between mal...

This book examines the importance of social media and other information technologies in connecting people to job opportunities. Not surprisingly, d...

The economy is recovering from the recession, but employers are still having difficulty filling certain jobs. The Department of Labor''s (DOL) Work...

U.S. employers in various industries argue that they need to hire foreign workers to perform lower-skilled jobs, while others maintain that many of...

In response to continuing high rates of unemployment and a weak economy, President Obama announced his American Jobs Act on September 8, 2011. As s...

Many recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low-income individuals find or keep jobs for a while, but far fewer rem...

How can federal programs support low-income and low-skilled individuals find and keep employment? Searching for a job is a universal experience for...

The book argues that trade unionism must break into the new worlds of work by radically transforming contemporary trade union structures and cultur...

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological ...

Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it ...

Expanded and updated, this is a new edition of an essential look at the history, structure, successes, and problems of the US health care system.Th...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark f...

How does the insecurity of work affect us? We know what job insecurity does to workers at work, the depressive effect it has on morale, productivit...

The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible. To embrace change, work with unpredictable schedules, be available 24/7, ...

Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change. How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics studies a singl...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online ...

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at th...

Vidarbha a major cotton growing region in central India has been the epicentre of a protracted agrarian crisis. Chronic indebtedness and farmers' ...

Offering the six historical essays from the out-of-print Bicentennial volume originally published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this book tells ...

Feminism is once again on the political agenda. Across the world women are taking to the streets to protest unfair working conditions, abortion law...

This volume of Research in Law and Economics contains articles that address important legal and economic developments in the areas of healthcare, i...

In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested. The terminological tug of war between activists and corporations, scientists and gov...

Its hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book o...

In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits Nor...

Named one of the Best Business Books of 2023 by the Financial TimesThinkers50 2023 Winner: Talent AwardFrom MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on ...

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. A...

This handbook focuses on two sides of the lean production debate that rarely interact. On the one hand, management and industrial engineering schol...

Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to...

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) ...

Although the economic recession that began in December 2007 has officially ended, unemployment rates still remain close to 10%. Especially hard hit...