Labour Economics

Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region, and its products found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, a...

This book explores the role and effect of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) with different dimensions. It is being supported with strong empirical e...

Local Authority Borrowing (1985) sets out the history of local authorities activities as borrowers. The early attempts to finance the building of t...

How have the immediate school-to-work transition and the early career changed in different labour market entry regimes since the early 1980s? How d...

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.The ultim...

HUANG Yiping is Professor of Economics at the China Center for Economic Research, National School of Development, Peking University, China. He is a...

The Second Reform Act, passed in 1867, created a million new voters, doubling the electorate and propelling the British state into the age of mass ...

With the creation of the Mediterranean partnership and the recent move towards the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean in 2008, a new empha...

This book provides the first systematic account of the premium costs that migrants pay to live and work abroad.Reducing the costs of international ...

Working for Ford (1984) describes just what it is like to work in a car factory, very often in the words of the workers themselves. It also reveals...

The financial crisis that began in 2008 is a stark demonstration that we as a nation take great risks when we build too much of our economy on a ba...

In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the crucial strategic issues of U.S. competitiveness...

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced un...

As governments struggle to adapt half-century-old income and social support programs to new needs and realities, some are calling for the introduct...

New York's Nanotechnology Model: Building the Innovation Economy is the summary of a 2013 symposium convened by the National Research Council Board...

This book is a Festschrift in honor or Professor Rod Fort, one of the leading contributors to the emerging field of sports economics in the past ha...

This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation. It examines the difficulties that arise from th...

This book offers conceptual and empirical insights from economic geography to explore how uncertainties, crises, and risks, shape, reshape, and ult...

First published in 1988, The Mexican Economy presents a comprehensive survey of the Mexican economy and its problems and argues that the crisis has...

The Industrial Revolution (1958) examines the various interpretations of early industrialization in Britain. It assesses and synthesises the many w...

The Stationers Company (1960) examines the corporate existence, under one name or another, of the Stationers Company over five hundred and fifty ye...

Economic Nationalism of the Danubian States (1928) examines the economic situations in the newly-configured countries of the basin of the Danube. T...

Economic Organization of the British Coal Industry (1934) is a study that shows on the one hand the organization of the coal industry in Britain in...

An adequate, well-trained, and diverse health care workforce is essential for providing access to quality health care services. However, despite mo...

A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regiona...

Chemistry plays a pivotal role in the strength of the U.S. economy and the advancement of humankind. Chemists' achievements include life-saving pha...

Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic...

In recent decades, production processes of intermediate and final products have been increasingly fragmented across countries in what are called gl...

Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to ra...

A mismatch between the federal government's revenues and spending, now and in the foreseeable future, requires heavy borrowing, leading to a large ...

Defining the role of a job coach, this book sets out EU-wide training standards for helping people with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful e...

This book examines gender inequality from the perspective of feminist economics, with empirical application, across different countries such as Tur...

This book examines labor market policy and institutional reforms and their impact on outcomes in the Chinese labor market, utilizing both instituti...

First published in 1974, Employment Policies in Developing Countries is an attempt to take stock of experience that has been acquired in a number o...

This optimistic and useful look at the coming convergence of automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence, shows how we can take advantage of ...

This book provides unique insight into the economic and humanitarian challenges facing Lebanon following the Syrian refugee crisis. It examines the...

This book explores the prospects of a global labour law system. Global labour law is understood as a still non-coherent set ofnorms that at differe...

This is the first book that uses the Harris Todaro (H-T) model to study contemporary economic issues in developing countries, with a particular fo...

This open-access volume accompanies the microdata release of the EU Loneliness Survey. Loneliness, often referred to as the epidemic of the 21st c...

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige....

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige....

This book bridges the gap between theoretical and empirical understandings of the informal sector to provide insight into the role of the informal ...