Labour Economics

Employing the intellectual migration analytical framework, this book examines the dynamics of student and professional migration. Intellectual migr...

This book assesses the architecture of performance measurement systems (PMS) in emerging countries, utilizing a mix of theoretical frameworks and e...

Wage stagnation, growing inequality, and even poverty itself have resulted from decades of neoliberal decision making, not the education system, wr...

Demographic studies help make sense of key aspects of the economy, offering insight into trends in fertility, mortality, immigration, and labor for...

This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, ...

Guardian's Best Non-Fiction, 2019The Tablet's Highlights of 2019Personality tests. Team-building exercises. Forced Fun. Desktop surveillance. Open-...

Equal is an inspiring, personal and campaigning book about how we should and can fight for equal pay and other kinds of equality in the workplace, ...

This book addresses the instabilities that growing industries face in developing countries, especially Nepal. Also, what happens when industries di...

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological ...

This book provides an in-depth look at the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of work. The rise of AI and automation is transform...

In a world gripped by endless crisis and climate breakdown, the demand to reshape our economic system has never been more urgent. Reclaiming the Fu...

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...