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by Samia Mohamed Nour
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This book discusses skill formation, upskilling of workers, and their interaction with technological change in Gulf countries. Heavy dependence on oil, the 'Dutch Disease', and the high incidence of unskilled foreign workers have caused serious structural imbalances in the labour market in the...
Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Working but Poor
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
It is widely acknowledged that youth unemployment is one of the most critical challenges facing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This volume brings together an eminent group of international scholars to analyse the extent and complex nature of this joblessness, and offer a set of evidence-based policy...
Betrayed
Politics, Power, and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Betrayed takes a new approach to the subject of global poverty, one that doesn't blame the West but also doesn't rely on the West for solutions. Betrayed puts the poor themselves at center stage, and shows how their entrepreneurial energies are shackled by political and social discrimination. When...
Growing Income Inequalities
Economic Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
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 the globalized world economy. Comparing the experiences of more and less developed economies, chapters analyse the underlying causes and key social changes that accompany income inequality.
Delivering Sustainable Growth in Africa
African Farmers and Firms in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The purpose of this book is to fill the lack of micro evidences on a structural change of African producers. By collecting studies on single industries, we attempt to demonstrate firms' and farmers' responses to the recent economic trend such as growth of demand, emergence of FDI and improvement in infrastructure.
Handbook of Markets and Economies: East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand
East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
East and Southeast Asia is a vast and complex region. Its countries have a bewildering array of histories, demographics, economic structures, cultural backgrounds, and global marketing potential. This Handbook unravels the mystery. Each chapter is written by a country specialist and provides a thorough...
Singapore's National Wages Council
An Insider's View
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Written by Emeritus Professor LIM Chong-Yah, Founding Chairman of the tripartite National Wages Council (NWC), this unique volume offers readers an insider's view of the genesis and the evolution of the wage determination mechanism and system in Singapore under the aegis of the NWC. As a tripartite...
Trade Unions and Democracy
Strategies and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Trade Unions and Democracy explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. As civil society agents, unions may promote democracy within the wider society, especially in the case of authoritarian regimes or other rigid political systems, by acting as watchdogs and protecting...
Rationalisation and Unemployment (Routledge Revivals)
An Economic Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
First published in 1930, John Hobson’s study deals with the economic dilemmas generated in the early twentieth century by the advent of mass production. Namely the over-production and surfeit of goods and the resultant failure of the expansion of markets leading to record levels of mass unemployment.
Seeking...
The Miners of Windber
The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 1996
In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of...
Combining paid work and family care
Policies and experiences in international perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring...
New Forms of Ownership
Management and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Originally published in 1990. Why has the pattern of ownership in British industry changed so dramatically in recent years? This high-level and wide-ranging discussion on the developments of the industrial scene in Britain investigates why such changes have occurred, and explores their impact on management...
People's Capitalism?
A Critical Analysis of Profit-Sharing and Employee Share Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
First published in 1989. In the decade before this book was originally published, employee share ownership and profit sharing had increased markedly as successive governments introduced fiscal legislation promoting their uses. Yet how successful had ‘people’s capitalism’ been?
The Glasgow...
by Giep Franzen, Sandra E. Moriarty
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This innovative work provides a state-of-the-art overview of current thinking about the development of brand strategy. Unlike other books on branding, it approaches successful brand strategy from both the producer and consumer perspectives. "The Science and Art of Branding" makes clear distinctions...