Labor category: 1449 books
The Economics of Trade Unions
A Study of a Research Field and Its Findings
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff’s now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do? stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economicimpact of trade unions. Trade unions continue to be a significant feature of many labormarkets, particularly in developing countries, and issues...
by Pages Carmen; Pierre Gaelle; Scarpetta Stefano
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
This book analyzes recent labor market trends in Latin American countries and the factors that underlie the failure to create more and more productive and rewarding jobs, a failure with substantial political and social costs. The authors analyze how growth and job creation in the region's economies...
Moving for Prosperity
Global Migration and Labor Markets
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Migration presents a stark policy dilemma. Research repeatedly confirms that migrants, their families back home, and the countries that welcome them experience large economic and social gains. Easing immigration restrictions is one of the most effective tools for ending poverty and sharing prosperity...
Intergenerational Mobility
A Study of Social Classes in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Discrimination and exclusion in the process of capability formation and the labor market transcend the boundaries of the current generation and spill over to successive generations as well. Though a plethora of work has been done at the international level, the area has not been the focus of Indian...
Compensating Wounded Warriors
An Analysis of Injury, Labor Market Earnings, and Disability Compensation Among Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This comprehensive, quantitative assessment of how injury sustained by service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan affects their subsequent labor market earnings also explores the extent to which retirement and disability payments compensate for any resulting earnings losses. The analysis controls...
by Peter Custers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
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 understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that...
Services Offshoring and its Impact on the Labor Market
Theoretical Insights, Empirical Evidence, and Economic Policy Recommendations for Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Services – from information technology to research to finance – are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...
A Feasible Basic Income Scheme for Germany
Effects on Labor Supply, Poverty, and Income Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book analyzes the consequences that would arise if Germany’s means-tested unemployment benefits were replaced with an unconditional basic income. The basic income scheme introduced is based on a negative income tax and calibrated to be both financially feasible and compatible with current constitutional...
Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions
Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2010
Allan Flanders was one of the leading British industrial relations academics and his ideas exerted a major influence on government labor policy in the 1960s and 1970s. But as well as being an Oxford academic with a strong interest in theory and labor reform, he was also a lifelong political activist....
The Poverty of Slavery
How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its negative effects on a country’s economy, much...
Fires on the Border
The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers’ organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles: the extent to which organizing is driven...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations is a refereed research volume published annually or biannually. Although the series is designed to focus on industrial relations issues, volumes also focus on diverse disciplines, such as economics, law, history, organizational behavior, psychology, and sociology.
by Deon Filmer, Louise Fox
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
High fertility and declining mortality rates have led to a very young population in most Sub-Saharan African countries. The region?s labor force is expected to increase by 11 million people per year over the next 10 years. Most of this increase will be new entrants seeking their first job. While the...
by Garcia Marito H.; Fares Jean
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The authors examine the challenges facing Africa's youth in their transition from school to working life, and propose a strategy for meeting these challenges. Topics covered include the effect of education on employment and income, broadening employment opportunities, and enhancing youth capabilities....