Labour Economics

This title was first published in 2000. The UNDP announced on 29th July 1999 that 'A human crisis of monumental proportions is emerging in the form...

Title first published in 2003. This informative volume addresses the impact of the EU on national policies to combat poverty in European member sta...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to a world in the midst of a telecommunications revolution. What this means is that societies through...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

This short book examines the availability and adoption of new education technologies in higher education institutions in India. It provides a summa...

Published in 1998, this book looks at unemployment in Ireland, the country's most serious social and economic problem. It is the major contributor ...

The book is a collection of essays written by scholars of global repute in honour of Professor Sunanda Sen. Each paper is well-researched and offer...

Title first published in 2003. In recognition of the power of organised labour, the ANC Government elected in 1994 granted South Africa's unions un...

The idea of comparing rewards with others has a long and persistent presence in the social sciences, and can be found in many psychological, social...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the politicalrevolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ong...

Greeces economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerit...

There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care. ...

Turkey has experienced growth in both the population and the workforce. However, female participation in the workforce in Turkey is extremely low, ...

Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe at the same time as governments of both sending and receiving countries ...

Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consis...

Thousands of gifted individuals, including women and underrepresented minorities, remain a disproportionally small fraction of those in science, te...

The book intends to capture the most critical issue that has cropped up as an aftermath of the Corona pandemic- the phenomenon of widening of globa...

This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing India's development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support youth labour market ...

Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its ...

Inequality has dramatically increased in America, with few solutions on the horizon. Serious social inequalities persist. For example, the 14 riche...

This title was first published in 2000: The book will be a set of essays addressing various aspects of regulation. It will concentrate on regulatio...

This title was first published in 2000: Analyzing the poverty trends in Mexico during the 1980s and early 1990s, this work is concerned with the ex...