Labor category: 1449 books
by Dora María Lladó Lárraga, Luis Ivan Sanchez Rodriguez, Marco Aurelio Navarro Leal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 18, 2013
En el contexto de la globalizacin econmica los mercados laborales han ido sufriendo transformaciones en sus procesos de administracin, organizacin y empleabilidad. De ah que la interrogante que orienta la presente publicacin es cmo se ubican los profesionistas en el mercado laboral flexible y cules...
Social Failures of EU Enlargement
A Case of Workers Voting with their Feet
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a less glittering answer. The EU has betrayed hopes of social cohesion: social regulations have been...
Industrial Relations
Origins and Patterns of National Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This comparative study of industrial relations provides an analysis of a wide range of phenomena, with a view to uncovering the origins of national diversity. It takes into account the notion of strategic choice, set within a series of constraints of environment, organizational and institutional conditions...
Global America
Understanding Global and Economic Trends and How To Ensure Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
John Manzella, recognized author, speaker and global business consultant, shares his inside perspective on the complex challenges that face America in the domestic and global arena. Get a glimpse of which events cause powerful chain reactions and how they will ultimately impact and shape our future,...
Storytelling Organizational Practices
Managing in the quantum age
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Once upon a time the practice of storytelling was about collecting interesting stories about the past, and converting them into soundbite pitches. Now it is more about foretelling the ways the future is approaching the present, prompting a re-storying of the past. Storytelling has progressed and is...
Negotiating Globally
How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
A framework for anticipating and managing cultural differences at the negotiating table
In today's global environment, negotiators who understand cultural differences and negotiation fundamentals have a decided advantage at the bargaining table. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of...
The Indonesian Labour Market
Changes and challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The topics of unemployment, underemployment, wage trends and patterns, and the relationship between poverty and the labour market are of interest to all policy makers, researchers, academics and journalists concerned with economic development. This book traces the evolution of the Indonesian labour...
Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics
Essays in Honour of Ingrid Rima
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Edited by three very well known academics in the field and contributed to by John Smithin, Laurence Moss and G. C. Harcourt, this volume reflects the breath of the honouree‘s interests and as such it covers a wide range of topics including political economy, labour economics, history of economic thought and macroeconomics.Ingrid Rima, one of the fi
Basic Income and the Free Market
Austrian Economics and the Potential for Efficient Redistribution
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Discusses whether the Basic Income Guarantee could offer an alternative to both laissez-faire and existing welfare systems in developed countries - often criticized by both advocates and critics of laissez-faire - thus opening a constructive dialog in policy discussion.
The Globotics Upheaval
Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
At the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for service and professional jobs. Instant machine translation is melting language barriers, so the ranks...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific examines the relationship between gender equality and development and outlines an agenda for public action to promote more effective and inclusive development in East Asian and Pacific countries. Written as a companion to the World Development Report...
World Development Report 2019
The Changing Nature of Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more attention than others, in part due to the vast uncertainty involved in making predictions about the future. The 2019 World Development Report...
Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised
Street Vendors in the Urban Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This book is the product of a study conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ministry of Urban Housing and Poverty Alleviation (MoHUPA). Its objective is to highlight some of the problems faced by street vendors...
Unemployment in Transition
Restructuring and Labour Markets in Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The emergence of open unemployment is an unavoidable consequence of postcommunist transition. Some countries-notably in the former Soviet Union-initially slowed economic contraction. But in the longer run slower reformers have generally sustained deeper and more prolonged recessions than faster reforming...