Labour Economics

Keyness General Theory was the most influential piece of economic writing of the twentieth century, and is one of the least understood. Keynes wrot...

The current moment faced by the microfinance field reflects the opening lines from Charles Dickens'' A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of time...

Many congressional policy makers have maintained an ongoing interest in the adequacy of the number of U.S. scientists and engineers required to add...

Born in Roanoke County, Virginia, on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation, Richard L. Davis was an early mine labor organizer in Rendville, ...

This book analyses the regulations and outcomes of labor markets. Chapter One studies the minimum wage effects on selectivity and job specialisatio...

Arbitration is the process by which a difference among parties as to their mutual legal rights is referred and determined with a binding effect by ...

Unemployment is a considerable source of social distress, leading to loss of social contact and activity, increased isolation from others, increase...

Women make up almost half of the nation''''s workforce, yet research shows that they continue to hold a lower percentage of corporate board seats c...

Sewing Success? Employment, Wages, and Poverty following the End of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) analyzes the impact of the 2004 MFA phaseout ...

In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations ...

This book presents and discusses information on a variety of labour issues and policies. Topics discussed include (among others)outsourcing and in-...

This book contains a unique set of pieces which examine the plight of Hispanics in today''''s workforce. A diverse set of scholars share their pers...