Labour Economics

The Economics of Urban Diversity explores ethnic and religious minorities in urban economies. In this exciting work, the contributors develop an in...

This book offers a labour perspective on wage-setting institutions, collective bargaining and economic development. Sixteen country chapters, eight...

The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book ...

The book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions for analysing contemporary capital...

Labour: A Heterodox Approach provides a theoretical reconstruction of the labour and job market by examining it in a rich historical context. It ex...

This book proposes a revised theory of agency, drawing on ideas from behavioural economics and built on more robust assumptions about human behavio...

This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing issue for all states in th...

Cross-border movement of employees and services creates a very difficult environment for employers entrepreneurs expanding to foreign markets, whi...

The labour movement in Lebanon: Power on hold narrates the history of the Lebanese labour movement from the early twentieth century to today. Bou K...

As governments across the GCC strive to implement labour policies which accelerate the transition to post oil knowledge-based economies, this volum...

Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population g...

An investigation into the labor force in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries primarily focusing on labor migration and remittances. The GC...

This book examines, theoretically and empirically, the key aspects and differences of economic growth. It provides a comprehensive investigation of...

The notion of rentier mentality has haunted the literature on the Gulf States for almost 40 years now. However, few studies have actually provided ...

This volume provides a cross-cutting analysis of the policy challenges related to Gulf Cooperation Council labour markets. It analyses the differen...

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we in...

This book analyzes in what way activation policies impact on given patterns of social citizenship that predominate in national contexts. It argues ...

The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being un...

At its current state of historical development, capital finds its contradictions tending towards an irresolvable character as manifested in multipl...

With so many political establishments and economic institutions undergoing enormous changes, many economic theories are being called into question....

The Reproductive Bargain reveals the institutional sources of labour insecurities behind Japan's post-war employment system, and helps to explain t...

In light of the decline of trade union membership and the role TU are expected to play in industrial relations, this book explores the consequences...

An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F. Kennedy....

Undocumented international migration is an increasingly important political, social and economic issue. The articles collected in this volume provi...

The inspiring story of worker centers that are cropping up across the country and leading the fight for today's workers For over 60 million ...

Capitalism has proven much more resilient than Marx anticipated, and the working class has hardly lived up to his hopes. What might a critique of t...

For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for maintaining the unequal relations between them. Tr...

This book analyses the processes, mutations and trends currently characterising the world of work that are bound up within the deep contradictions ...

This is the second volume of a two-part series on Concordian economics, an innovative paradigm that builds upon the Aristotelian-Aquinian tradition...

Known for his seminal work in efficiency-wage theory, Andrew Weiss surveys recent research in the field and presents new results. He shows how wage...

The informal economy – economic activity and income outside government regulation, taxation and observation – is, by its very nature, difficult to ...

The informal economy – economic activity and income outside government regulation, taxation and observation – is, by its very nature, difficult to ...

The living wage is an old idea that has experienced a dramatic resurgence of political popularity in recent years. The underlying logic of the conc...

The living wage is an old idea that has experienced a dramatic resurgence of political popularity in recent years. The underlying logic of the conc...

Globalization has transformed how nations, firms and workers compete in the international economy over the past half century. This book by Gary Ger...