Labour Economics

Much of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpaid, free or coe...

This volume comprises 12 chapters, each accounting for a particular aspect of worker well-being. Among the issues addressed are: employee compensat...

Laid Off, Laid Low provides a sobering portrait of the ailing American labor system and the social and political consequences of increasing job ins...

Much of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpaid, free or coe...

Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic change...

A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about seventeen percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government's defi...

The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and ...

Despite the economic boom of the 1990s, the gap between the wealthy and the poor in the United States is growing larger. This volume draws together...

Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market. I...

From debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexican immigrants are the subject of widespread controversy. By 2003, their growing numbers acc...

This volume tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant to the people who lived in that co...

Feel empowered with your finances and discover the route to economic equality in this astonishing dissection of the gender wealth gap'Uncovers the ...

How are human capital investments allocated between women and men? What are the returns to investments in women's nutrition, health care, education...