Labour Economics

This edited volume examines how some OECD countries have adapted to new challenges in the labor market by evaluating and analyzing public programs ...

This book on economic security is particularly timely as the world economy confronts difficult challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and high in...

Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers...

This book provides a critical perspective on the digitalisation of universities and precarisation of academic labour.While research and teaching be...

This book examines the role of creative mental labor in determining long-term economic growth, production costs, and product pricing. By redefining...

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...