Labour Economics

In Our Unions, Our Selves, Anne Zacharias-Walsh provides an in-depth look at the rise of women-only unions in Japan, an organizational analysis of ...

Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to thi...

Basic income is one the most innovative, powerful and controversial proposals for addressing poverty and growing inequalities. This book examines t...

Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain investigate how neoliberal globalization generates unique conditions, contradictions, and confrontations in l...

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Du...

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Du...

Examining the new realities of economic immigration to Europe, this book focuses on new trends and developments, including the rediscovery of econo...

Our health, our income and our social networks at older ages are the consequence of what has happened to us over the course of our lives. The situa...

The new macroeconomics is about distributions and flows, rather than points and intersections. Market frictions imply that the search for trading p...

Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system,...

The Egyptian economy has faced many challenges in the decade since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Not only was job creation anaemic from 2012 to 2...

La présente étude s'appuie sur des données démographiques, des travaux de recherche, des entretiens avec des informateurs clés, ainsi que des étude...

In this latest work by the prolific Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia, the COVID-19 pandemic is shown to have merely exacerbated the profound...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This absorbing study examines the remarkable campaign for do...

THE FIVE-DAY WORKING WEEK MUST CHANGE: HERES HOW.Fingers crossed that this book will shake up the five-day working week. - Sir Christopher Pissarid...

This report examines the role of economic and social policies in understanding the evolution of inequality and poverty in Malawi over the past thre...

In this edition of the Demographic Observatory, the impact of population dynamics is illustrated through an analysis of selected indicators of labo...

In a rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their cities' labor markets and a threat to their development. Drawing on n...

This open access book intends to contribute to the debate on migrant labour exploitation by exploring the extent to which the EU and the European c...

This provocative book makes a compelling case for reducing the number of workdays in a week to four. Globalization has brought with it fiercer comp...