Labor category: 1449 books

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The Economics of Immigration

Theory and Policy

by Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009

The inspiration for this book came from a collaborative research project on immigration, begun in 2001, when we were colleagues at University of Nebraska- Lincoln (Bodvarsson was a Visiting Professor there in 2001–05). Our project dealt with the application of Say’s Law to the supply of immigrant...
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by Yves Flückiger, Jacques Silber
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

When considering labor market inequality across different demographic groups in society, it is natural for most individuals to think of discrimination as the most likely explanation. Since the pioneering work of University of Chicago economist and Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, there has been an abundance...
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The Demise of Labor

The Brian Ahakuelo Story

by Ahakuelo Brian
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

Unions are Dying a Slow Death Organized labor, once a powerful force for social and economic justice in America, is rapidly fading into obscurity, with unions bleeding members from their rosters even in the most labor-friendly regions of the country. Nobody knows this better than Brian...
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Modern Labor Economics

Theory and Public Policy (International Student Edition)

by Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Robert S. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 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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Severance Payment and Labor Mobility

A Comparative Study of Taiwan and Japan

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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018

This book compares legally allowed dismissal conditions in employment contracts in Taiwan and Japan and then examines the possibility of introducing the Taiwan-style severance payment system into Japanese employment contracts. A significant difference exists between employment regulations of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community, immigrant communities and other progressive forces are emerging across the U.S. and Canada and winning better...
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Beaten Down, Worked Up

The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

by Steven Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019

From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered In an era when corporate profits have soared while wages have flatlined, millions of Americans are searching for ways to improve...
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Radical Economics and Labour

Essays inspired by the IWW Centennial

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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009

To celebrate the centenary of the most radical union in North America - The Industrial Workers of the World - this collection examines radical economics and the labor movement in the 20th Century. The union advocates direct action to raise wages and increase job control, and it envisions the eventual...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a market economy. These phenomena pose major challenges for the Chinese labor market, which are at the center of the booming academic and policy research in recent...
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by Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015

For most countries, women's labor force participation and hours of work has risen while men's have fallen. Concomitantly, men's and women's wages and occupational structures have been converging. This volume contains new and innovative research on issues related to gender convergence in the labor...
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Solidarity Divided

The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice

by Bill Fletcher Jr., Fernando Gapasin
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008

The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new...
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International Trade and Labor Markets

Welfare, Inequality and Unemployment

by Udo Kreickemeier
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017

This volume collects theoretical papers on the labor market effects of international trade that Udo Kreickemeier has published, together with different co-authors, over the past decade. Many contributions contained in this volume feature labor market imperfections that give rise to involuntary unemployment,...
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Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies

Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age

by Jacqueline Mazza
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty – good jobs, schools, and training -...
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by Marianne J. Koch
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

This title, first published in 1995, examines how certain human resource practices link to labor productivity, and sets out to explain why some firms choose particular practices while others do not. In order to clearly model the relationship between labor productivity and how the firm elects to manage...
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