Labor category: 1449 books

Cover of An Introduction to Labor Law
by Michael Evan Gold
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

An Introduction to Labor Law is a useful and course-tested primer that explains the basic principles of the federal law regulating the relationship of employers to labor unions. In this updated third edition, which features a new introduction, Michael Evan Gold discusses the law that applies to union...
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Modern Labor Economics

Theory and Public Policy

by Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Robert S. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, now in its thirteenth edition, continues to be the leading text for one-semester courses in labor economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It offers a thorough overview of the modern theory of labor market behavior, and reveals how...
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Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics

The IZA World of Labor Guide 2017

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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions. Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, research findings on key policy issues are presented...
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Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics

The IZA World of Labor Guide 2016

by Daniel S. Hamermesh, Olga K. Nottmeyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers to make better informed policy decisions. Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, research findings on key policy issues are presented...
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Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics

The IZA World of Labor Guide 2015

by Klaus F. Zimmermann, Alexander S. Kritikos
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

IZA World of Labor distils and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers make better informed policy decisions. Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, the findings on each topic are presented in a compact and readable format, as distillations...
Cover of Globalization, Technological Change, and Labor Markets
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Markets is an edited collection of papers drawn from the conference held at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in June 1997. This conference brought German and American perspectives to bear on the complex issues of global competition,...
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Geographical Labor Market Imbalances

Recent Explanations and Cures

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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015

This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time. Unemployment divergence and unemployment club convergence have been touched on in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

Canada and the countries of Latin America are in the midst of major changes and choices in the area of labor markets and related social policy. These decisions are likely to have profound consequences for the quality of life of workers throughout the hemisphere. Labor Market Policies in Canada and...
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Back to Work

Growing with Jobs in Europe and Central Asia

by Omar S. Arias, Carolina Sánchez-Páramo, María E. Dávalos
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

Over the last decade, significant global and regional forces including changes in technology, trade patterns, and business practices, with a steady shift in value added production and employment toward knowledge-intensive activities and services such as finance, the hospitality industry, and the retail...
Cover of 35th Anniversary Retrospective
by Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Solomon W. Polachek
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012

Since its inception Research in Labor Economics has published over 350 articles encompassing a wide range of themes and spanning an array of labor economics topics. Authors have ranged from young scholars with much potential to mature leaders in the field, including Nobel Prize and John Bates Clark...
Cover of Handbook of Labor Economics
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010

What factors affect the ways individuals participate in labor markets? "New Developments and Research on Labor Markets" (volume 4B) proposes answers to this and other questions on important topics of public policy. Leading labor economists demonstrate how better data and advanced experiments...
Cover of New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Hugo Nopo
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012

After a sustained economic growth period at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, Latin America still faces high inequality and lower well-being indicators among women, afro-descendants, and indigenous peoples. This is a period in which the world and particularly Latin America has...
Cover of Union Contributions to Labor Welfare Policy and Practice
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

This book focuses on the contributions of organized labor in the development and evolution of workplace human services in America and eight countries around the world. Beginning with an overview of labor-sponsored social service programs, it showcases the achievements by major trade unions in the...
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Labor Transfer in Emerging Economies

A Perspective from China’s Reality to Theories

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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017

Based on new phenomena appearing in many emerging economies, this book presents a theoretical study on the economic influences of labor transfer from several aspects. In recent years, thanks to the continuous progress of social forms as well as science and technology, there are a large number of new...
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