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Book SynopsisPacific Rim scholars look at globalization's impact on international economicsTrade Review"An excellent and often impressive book that advances our understanding of the internationalization of production and the ways in which it is actually implemented in specific sites."—Saskia Sassen, Department of Urban Planning, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Garment Industry in the Restructuring Global Economy Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng, Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton, and Paul Ong Part I: Patterns and Linkages 2. Mapping a Global Industry: Apparel Production in the Pacific Rim Triangle Edna Bonacich and David V. Waller 3. Power and Profits in the Apparel Commodity Chain Richard P. Appelbaum and Gary Gereffi 4. U.S. Retailers and Asian Garment Production Lucie Cheng and Gary Gereffi 5. The Role of U.S. Apparel Manufacturers in the Globalization of the Industry in the Pacific Rim Edna Bonacich and David V. Waller Part II: Asia 6. The Development Process of the Hong Kong Garment Industry: A Mature Industry in a Newly Industrialized Economy Ho-Fuk Lau and Chi-Fai Chan 7. The Globalization of Taiwan's Garment Industry Gary Gereffi and Mei-Lin Pan 8. The Korean Garment Industry: From Authoritarian Patriarchism to Industrial Paternalism Seung Hoon Lee and Ho Keun Song 9. The Philippine Garment Industry Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo 10. Thailand in the Pacific Rim Garment Industry Richard F. Doner and Ansil Ramsay 11. The Garment Industry in Singapore: Clothes for the Emperor Sara U. Douglas, Stephen A. Douglas and Thomas J. Finn Part III: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean 12. The Apparel Maquiladora Industry at the Mexican Border Jorge Carillo V. 13. Industrial Organization and Mexico-U.S. Free Trade: Evidence from the Mexican Garment Industry Gordon H. Hanson 14. Export Manufacturing, State Policy, and Women Workers in the Dominican Republic Helen I. Safa 15. The Maquila Revolution in Guatemala Kurt Petersen 16. The Garment Industry and Economic Restructuring in Mexico and Central America Norma Chinchilla and Nora Hamilton Part IV: The United States 17. Labor Squeeze and Ethnic/Racial Recomposition in the U.S. Apparel Industry Evelyn Blumenberg and Paul Ong 18. Recent Manufacturing Changes in the U.S. Apparel Industry: The Case of North Carolina Ian M. Taplin 19. Immigrant Enterprise and Labor in the Los Angeles Garment Industry James Loucky, Maria Soldatenko, Gregory Scott, and Edna Bonacich 20. Conclusion: The Garment Industry, National Development, and Labor Organizing Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng, Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton, and Paul Ong List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFrom this experience, Lawrence J. Ouellet has the advantage of a rare perspective and a profound understanding of the two fundamental questions he asks in this book: Why do truck drivers work so hard even when it doesn't result in more money or other material gains? and How do truckers make sense of their behavior to themselves and to the outside world?A vivid ethnography of trucking culture, Pedal to the Metal documents and analyzes truckers' lives and work ethic, exploring the range of identities truckers create for themselves—the renegade cowboy, the company man, the voyeur, the lone king of the road. To explain truckers' motivations, Ouellet examines the meaning of work and the motivation for excelling despite long, unsupervised hours on the road. He finds that their occupational pride results in extraordinary efforts on the job and, subsequently, a positive sense of self. Driving skill allows truckers to improve their hauling times, which they proudly track to the minute, and to increase their productivity and income.Truckers' knowledge of the industry's structure and the idiosyncrasies of their own company allows them to improve their ability to get and carry out assignments, to maneuver around a traditional concept of rank and seniority, and to recreate to their advantage the pervasive cultural myths that the public expects should dictate a trucker's behavior. Whether capturing the pleasure and enchantment of trucking—driving under moon-lit skies across a snow-covered mountain range—or the miseries of boredom, bad weather, and exhausting schedules, Ouellet exhibits deep appreciation and passion for his subject.Trade Review"[A] fascinating study of the lives and work ethic of truckers.... [M]ore than a study of truck drivers, [this] entertaining work adds to the research on blue-collar workers and their interests, motivations, and job satisfactions."—Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Driving Trucks, Driving Ourselves 2. The Organization of Work 3. Drivers at Work 4. Conflict between Drivers and Owners 5. Work Skills and Self-Esteem 6. What Owners Want from Drivers, What Drivers Want from Owners 7. Work Audiences 8. Highway Audiences 9. Careers, Magic, and Masculinity Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of the experiences of workers in various service-sector occupations to explore how the shift to a service-based economy fundamentally transforms the nature of work and the challenges of workplace empowerment in contemporary AmericTrade Review"[A] welcome addition to...the study of organizations and workers." --Work and Occupations "This collection...bring[s] a light touch to consideration of a fundamental change in work in America." --ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Service Society and the Changing Experience of Work Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni Part I: Management Control of the New Labor Process 2. Rethinking Questions of Control: Lessons from McDonald's Robin Leidner 3. The Politics of Service Production: Route Sales Work in the Potato-Chip Industry Steven H. Lopez 4. Consumers' Reports: Management by Customers in a Changing Economy Linda Fuller and Vicki Smith 5. Service with a Smile: Understanding the Consequences of Emotional Labor Amy S. Wharton Part II: Gender, Race, and Stratification in the Service Sector 6. From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor Evelyn Nakano Glenn 7. Family, Gender, and Business in Direct Selling Organizations Nicole Woolsey Biggart 8. Reproducing Gender Relations in Large Law Firms: The Role of Emotional Labor in Paralegal Work Jennifer L. Pierce Part III: Worker Resistance, Organizing, and Participation 9. Invisibility, Consciousness of the Other, and Resentment among Black Domestic Workers Judith Rollins 10. Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and Invisible Work Cameron Lynne Macdonald 11. Resisting the Symbolism of Service among Waitresses Greta Foff Paules 12. "The Customer Is Always Interesting": Unionized Harvard Clericals Renegotiate Work Relationships Susan C. Eaton 13. The Prospects for Unionism in a Service Society Dorothy Sue Cobble Contributors

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Book SynopsisHaving come of age during a period of vibrant union-centered activism, Jack Metzgar begins this book wondering how his father, a U.S> Steel shop steward in the 1950s and '60s, and so many contemporary historians could forget what this country owes to the union movement. Combining personal memoir and historical narrative, Striking Steel argues for reassessment of unionism in American life during the second half of the twentieth century and a recasting of \u0022official memory.\u0022 As he traces the history of union steelworkers after World War II, Metzgar draws on his father's powerful stories about the publishing work in the mills, stories in which time is divided between \u0022before the union\u0022 and since. His father, Johnny Metzgar, fought ardently for workplace rules as a means of giving \u0022the men\u0022 some control over their working conditions and protection from venal foremen. He pursued grievances until he eroded management's authority, and he badgered foremen until he established shop-floor practices that would become part of the next negotiated contract. As a passionate advocate of solidarity, he urged coworkers to stick together so that the rules were upheld and everyone could earn a decent wage. Striking Steel's pivotal event is the four-month nationwide steel strike of 1959, a landmark union victory that has been all but erased from public memory. With remarkable tenacity, union members held out for the shop-floor rules that gave them dignity in the workplace and raised their standard of living. Their victory underscored the value of sticking together and reinforced their sense that they were contributing to a general improvement in American working and living conditions. The Metzgar family's story vividly illustrates the larger narrative of how unionism lifted the fortunes and prospects of working-class families. It also offers an account of how the broad social changes of the period helped to shift the balance of power in a conflict-ridden, patriarchal household. Even if the optimism of his generation faded in the upheavals of the 1960s, Johnny Metzgar's commitment to his union and the strike itself stands as an honorable example of what a collective action can and did achieve. Jack Metzgar's Striking Steel is a stirring call to remember and renew the struggle.Trade Review"Striking Steel is part memoir, part history of the steelworkers and their union. It is a unique addition to the literature on American labor. Although I disagree with Metzgar's spirited defense of the union, this is an indispensable book for any student of American labor and of recent American history!" -Stanley Aronowitz, author of From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future "We have here an informative, engaging, perceptive, sometimes controversial and always challenging history of the 1959 steel strike and the union struggles of the '50s. A thought-provoking review of a much neglected period and event, its results and its implications." -Lynn Williams, past President of the United Steelworkers of America "Jack Metzgar is a fabulous writer whose memoir of his own steelworking family illuminates a now distant shopfloor universe of moral conflict, cultural change, and working class power. Striking Steel is full of insight, wisdom, and passion. read it and you will turn the pages with eagerness and appreciation." -Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia "Through its compelling portrayal of one family, one union and industry, striking Steel vividly brings to life the spirit fo the American labor movement. and in its brilliant reinterpretation of one of the most misunderstood eras in our nations' past; it makes a potent case for organized laobr's continuing role in helping to shape the next American century." -Roberta Lynch, International Vice President of AFSCME and co-author of Rusted Dreams: Hard Times in a Steel Community "The publication of Striking Steel adds to a growing literature about the post-war working-class identity and ways of life. It is the kind of class studies scholarship that labor educators should become acquainted with and use in their teaching." -Robert Bruno, University of Illinois "Striking Steel is a history of the era of collective bargaining in steel, and, despite Metzgar's modesty, very good history it is." -The Journal of American History "...sharply drawn profiles of relationships inside a working-class family and a marvelously complex description of union culture and work practices in a 1950s steel mill." -DissentTable of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction Part One: The 1959 Steel Strike Prologue 1. Getting to 1959 2. No Backward Steps: The Biggest Strike in U.S. History Part Two: Cause and Consequence Prologue 3. 2-B or Not 2-B: A Battle for "Rigid Union Work Rules" 4. When the Wolf Finally Came: Union Power and the Demise of Steel Part Three: Remembering or Not Prologue 5. Steel Family Memories and the Culture of Unionism 6. The Contest for Official Memory Appendix A: Histories of Postwar America Appendix B: Interviews Notes Acknowledgments Index Photographs follow page 148

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Book SynopsisTwo broad developments reshaped work at the end of the twentieth century. The first was the implosion of the Soviet Union and the worldwide triumph of market capitalism. The second was the increasing use of computer-based production technologies and management command-and-control systems. How do we make sense of these important developments. The editors have assembled a collection of provocative, original essays on work and workplaces throughout the world that challenge the current celebration of globalization and new technologies. Building on labor process analysis, individual case studies venture beyond factory and office to examine \u0022virtual\u0022 workplaces, computer-era cottage work, and emotional and household labor. The settings range from Indian and Irish software factories to Brazilian supermarkets, Los Angeles sweatshops, and Taiwanese department stores. Other essays seek to make theoretical sense of increasingly de-centered production chains, fluid work relations, and uncertain employment. Individually and collectively the authors construct a new critical study of work, highlighting the connections between geography, technology, gender, race, and class. They offer an accessible and flexible approach to the study of workplace relations and production organization -- and even the notion of work itself.Trade Review"This volume presents innovative, comparative case studies of work and the politics of labor around the world. Moving the field of labor process studies onto new conceptual terrain, The Critical Study of Work should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand globalization and how it shapes and connects work experiences in offices, retail establishments, homes, and factories." -Vicki Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis, and author of Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy "[A]n important contribution to the literature on labor, labor relations, labor process, labor value, globalization and technology and work." -Anthropology of Work Review "This edited collection will be of interest to scholars curious about the theoretical development and recent empirical research in labour process analysis... The qualitative/ ethnographic methodologies employed in these labour process analyses yield valuable insights into the real experiences of workers confronting the forces of global market capitalism." -Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "The overall quality of the contributions is outstanding and Baldoz, Koeber and Kraft deserve high marks for assembling work that will interest scholars and stimulate undergraduates and learned nonspecialists." -Social ForcesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Making Sense of Work in the 21st Century Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft Part I:The Global Perspective: Continuity and Change 1. Dwelling in Capitalism, Traveling Through Socialism Michael Burawoy 2. Do Capitalists Matter in the Capitalist Labor Process? Collective Capacities, Group Interests, and Management Prerogatives, 1886-1904 Jeffery Haydu Part II:Service and Service Sectors Workers 3. Gender, Race, and the Organization of Reproductive Labor Evelyn Nakano Glenn 4. The Body as a Contested Terrain for Labor Control: Cosmetics Retailers in Department Stores and Direct Selling Pei-Chia Lan 5. Silent Rebellions in Capitalist Paradise: A Brazil-Quebec Comparison Angelo Soares Part III: Production and Industrial Workers 6. Flexible Despotism: The Intensification of Insecurity and Uncertainty in the Lives of Silicon Valley's High-Tech Assembly Workers Jennifer J. Chun 7. The Challenge of Organizing in a Globalized/Flexible Industry: The Case of the Apparel Industry in Los Angeles Edna Bonacich 8. Transcending Taylorism and Fordism? Three Decade of Work Restructuring James Rinehart 9. Manufacturing Compromise: The Dynamics of Race and Class Among South African Shop Stewards in the 1990s Edward Webster Part IV: Professional and Technical Workers 10. "Globalization": The Next Tactic in the 50-Year Struggle of Labor and Capital in Software Production Richard Sharpe 11. Controlling Technical Workers in Alternative Work Arrangements: Rethinking the Work Contract Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley 12. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace Sean O'Riain

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Book SynopsisYoung people often work in some of the lowest-paying, lowest-status jobs there are -- in dead end jobs or \u0022McJobs\u0022 in retail, food, and entertainment service sectors. They have lower wages, fewer benefits, less job security, and are less likely to be unionized than any other age group in the workforce. Employers of young workers, by contrast, frequently rank among the world's most powerful corporations. Despite their importance to the service economy, young workers are often ignored or stereotyped by researchers, policymakers, and trade unions. This interview-based study of 95 young unionized fast-food and grocery workers in two cities in the U.S. and Canada presents a detailed account of their experiences in their workplaces and in their unions. These young workers vividly describe their daily tasks of frying, serving, bagging, stocking, and cleaning up, and the pressures from management and customers that surround these tasks. Management control tactics they encounter include video surveillance, drug testing, and monitoring of worker service scripts by mystery shoppers. The workers also document the hazards -- muscle injuries, burns, and robberies -- and the responsibilities of their jobs, including the emotional labor of customer relations. The book suggests that young service sector workers have a distinct workforce identity as \u0022stopgap workers.\u0022 Society, employers, and even some unions often dismiss young workers as not being \u0022real\u0022 workers, since these youths are seen as being in transition between school and \u0022adult\u0022 career forms of employment. The collective activism of unions may offer hope not just for improving service sector work, but for educating young workers and providing them with a voice in shaping their own temporary work conditions.Trade Review"In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Stuart Tannock poses a startling question: Why shouldn't young workers receive good pay, respectful treatment, and decent working conditions? Giving voice to young people in fast-food and supermarket work, he shows what life on the job is like for these 'stopgap workers'-and how it could be different." -Robin Leidner, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life "Powerful and revealing, Youth at Work puts youth workers on the front burner of the nation's policy concerns. Youth offer their own accounts, both wise and compelling, about their investments in work, the challenges in their working lives-and their demands, which we should listen to. A remarkable book for teaching, Youth at Work is Paul Willis's Learning to Labor for the 21st century!" -Carol Stack, Author of All Our Kin and Call to Home "Tannock provides a rare and timely look at today's fast-food and grocery workplaces through the eyes of their young workers. He shows how these working teens are 'real' workers in the low-end service economy, who deserve more respect and need a stronger voice on the job. Youth at Work is required reading for all who care about our youth, the working poor, and the future of the labor movement." -Bill Fletcher, Jr., Assistant to the President, AFL-CIO "Stuart Tannock's study takes us beyond lamentations of exploited youth and frustrated unionization. His investigation challenges a rethink of our understanding of 'youth stopgap workers' and our conception of the potential of unions. This book will certainly appear on the must-read shelf of anyone committed to either youth or the revival of the union movement." -Sam Gidin, Packer Visitor in Social Justice, Political Science, York University, and author of The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union "Youth at Work is an interesting look at what the author terms 'stopgap youth workers'...the book overall is appealing." -Capital Times, Madison "Youth at Work provides valuable insights into the world of youth employment in the retail and service fields. It has also sounded the alarm over the conditions that prevail in such industries despite the existence of unions, and illustrated the importance of age (and life stage) in studies of non-standard work." -Canadian Journal of Sociology OnlineTable of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Youth and Work 1. Dead Ends 2. On the Front Lines of the Service Sector Part II: Youth in the Workplace 3. Store-Level Solidarities 4. Age in the Grocery Store 5. Stopgap Work Cultures Part III: Youth in the Union 6. Outsiders in the Union 7. The Youth Union 8. Handling Time Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, New Yorkers have been surprised to see workers they had taken for granted-Mexicans in greengroceries, West African supermarket deliverymen and South Asian limousine drivers-striking, picketing, and seeking support for better working conditions. Suddenly, businesses in New York and the nation had changed and were now dependent upon low-paid immigrants to fill the entry-level jobs that few native-born Americans would take. Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market tells the story of these workers' struggle for living wages, humane working conditions, and the respect due to all people. It describes how they found the courage to organize labor actions at a time when most laborers have become quiescent and while most labor unions were ignoring them. Showing how unions can learn from the example of these laborers, and demonstrating the importance of solidarity beyond the workplace, Immanuel Ness offers a telling look into the lives of some of America's newest immigrants.Trade Review"This is an original, major contribution to the power of solidarity among new migrant workers of color in the U.S. The case studies of worker collective action in the informal economy eloquently show that migrants in the global economy share common bonds and will organize against all odds. The organizing by Francophone Africans, Mexicans, and South Asians call attention to the exclusion of migrant workers of color in established unions. The book impressively demonstrates that a strong labor movement can only be established through the inclusion of those struggling outside the margins of traditional institutions."-Bill Fletcher, Jr., President, TransAfrica Forum "Worker self organization accounts for a huge percentage of formal and informal labor history in the U.S. and throughout the world. Manny Ness has chronicled some inspiring and recent accounts of great organizing by immigrant workers in the U.S. This type of organizing and mobilizing existing members provides our best hope for the future."-Larry Cohen, Communications Workers of the World "Manny Ness tells the compelling stories of the workplace organizing efforts of immigrants in New York City. The odds are against them. Many are undocumented, they have to contend with a restructured labor market that disadvantages low wage workers, and the unions are not much help. Nevertheless, these workers forged the solidarities and found the courage that made militant struggle possible. Read this fine book and hope!"-Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate School of the City University of New York "As government policies grow more repressive and corporate imperatives more malevolent, Ness offers hope that a new path is possible for organizing the workplace."-Elaine Bernard, Executive Director, Labor & Worklife Program, Harvard Law SchoolTable of ContentsPreface1. Why New Immigrants Organize2. The Political Economy of Transnational Labor in New York City: The Context for Immigrant Worker Militancy3. Unions and Immigrant Worker Organizing: New Models for New Workers4. Mexican Immigrants, Class Formation, and Union Organizing in New York's Greengrocery Industry5. Francophone West African Supermarket Delivery Workers Autonomous Union Organizing Outside of a Union6. Black-Car Drivers: Industrial Restructuring and New Worker Organizing7. The Post-September 11 Economic Crisis and the Government Crackdown on Immigrant Workers8. Parallel Organizing: Immigrants and UnionsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, New Yorkers have been surprised to see workers they had taken for granted-Mexicans in greengroceries, West African supermarket deliverymen and South Asian limousine drivers-striking, picketing, and seeking support for better working conditions. Suddenly, businesses in New York and the nation had changed and were now dependent upon low-paid immigrants to fill the entry-level jobs that few native-born Americans would take. Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market tells the story of these workers' struggle for living wages, humane working conditions, and the respect due to all people. It describes how they found the courage to organize labor actions at a time when most laborers have become quiescent and while most labor unions were ignoring them. Showing how unions can learn from the example of these laborers, and demonstrating the importance of solidarity beyond the workplace, Immanuel Ness offers a telling look into the lives of some of America's newest immigrants.Trade Review"This is an original, major contribution to the power of solidarity among new migrant workers of color in the U.S. The case studies of worker collective action in the informal economy eloquently show that migrants in the global economy share common bonds and will organize against all odds. The organizing by Francophone Africans, Mexicans, and South Asians call attention to the exclusion of migrant workers of color in established unions. The book impressively demonstrates that a strong labor movement can only be established through the inclusion of those struggling outside the margins of traditional institutions."-Bill Fletcher, Jr., President, TransAfrica Forum "Worker self organization accounts for a huge percentage of formal and informal labor history in the U.S. and throughout the world. Manny Ness has chronicled some inspiring and recent accounts of great organizing by immigrant workers in the U.S. This type of organizing and mobilizing existing members provides our best hope for the future."-Larry Cohen, Communications Workers of the World "Manny Ness tells the compelling stories of the workplace organizing efforts of immigrants in New York City. The odds are against them. Many are undocumented, they have to contend with a restructured labor market that disadvantages low wage workers, and the unions are not much help. Nevertheless, these workers forged the solidarities and found the courage that made militant struggle possible. Read this fine book and hope!"-Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate School of the City University of New York "As government policies grow more repressive and corporate imperatives more malevolent, Ness offers hope that a new path is possible for organizing the workplace."-Elaine Bernard, Executive Director, Labor & Worklife Program, Harvard Law SchoolTable of ContentsPreface1. Why New Immigrants Organize2. The Political Economy of Transnational Labor in New York City: The Context for Immigrant Worker Militancy3. Unions and Immigrant Worker Organizing: New Models for New Workers4. Mexican Immigrants, Class Formation, and Union Organizing in New York's Greengrocery Industry5. Francophone West African Supermarket Delivery Workers Autonomous Union Organizing Outside of a Union6. Black-Car Drivers: Industrial Restructuring and New Worker Organizing7. The Post-September 11 Economic Crisis and the Government Crackdown on Immigrant Workers8. Parallel Organizing: Immigrants and UnionsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhile the internet bubble has burst, the New Economy that the internet produced is still with us, along with the myth of a workplace built around more humane notions of how people work and spend their days in offices. No-Collar is the only close study of New Economy workplaces in their heyday. Andrew Ross, a renowned writer and scholar of American intellectual and social life, spent eighteen months deep inside Silicon Alley in residence at two prominent New Economy companies, Razorfish and 360hiphop, and interviewed a wide range of industry employees in other cities to write this remarkable book. Maverick in their organizations and permissive in their culture, these workplaces offered personal freedoms and rewards that were unheard of in corporate America. Employees feared they may never again enjoy such an irresistible work environment. Yet for every apparent benefit, there appeared to be a hidden cost: 70-hour workweeks, a lack of managerial protection, an oppressive shouldering of risk by employees, an illusory sense of power sharing, and no end of emotional churning. The industrialization of bohemia encouraged employees to think outside the box, but also allowed companies to claim their most free and creative thoughts and ideas. In these workplaces, Andrew Ross encountered a new kind of industrial personality, and emerged with a sobering lesson. Be careful what you wish for. When work becomes sufficiently humane, we tend to do far too much of it, and it usurps an unacceptable portion of our lives. He concludes that we should not have to choose between a personally gratifying and a just workplace, we should strive to enjoy both.Trade Review"Provides a balanced, richly textured, and, in the end, chilling account of work in the high-tech digitized world of the New Economy."-William Wolman, The Los Angeles Times Book Review "No-Collar is a wonderful read, with well-written prose and an engaging style. It can be read as an interesting story about a period of time, a description of a particular group of people, or an insightful critique of our market civilization."-Administrative Science Quarterly "[Ross] provides many insights into the IT Workplace...This book has much to offer... Ross has written a well-researched, cautionary analysis of the IT work environment that is not deterministic or unjustifiably celebratory. Anyone reading this book will find that the IT industry is not particularly unique; nor are the workplaces operating in it."-Labour/Le TravailTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the 2004 Edition1. Jobs in Candyland: An Introduction2. The No-Collar People3. The Golden Children of Razorfish4. The Industrialization of Bohemia5. A Hip-Hop Haven6. Optimize Me7. After the Kool-AidNotesIndex

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Book Synopsis"Monitoring Sweatshops" offers the first comprehensive assessment of efforts to address and improve conditions in garment factories. Jill Esbenshade describes the government's efforts to persuade retailers and clothing companies to participate in private monitoring programs. She shows the different approaches to monitoring that firms have taken, and the variety of private monitors employed, from large accounting companies to local non-profits. Esbenshade also shows how the efforts of the anti-sweatshop movement have forced companies to employ monitors overseas as well. When monitoring is understood as the result of the withdrawal of governments from enforcing labor standards as well as the weakening of labor unions, it becomes clear that the United States is experiencing a shift from a social contract between workers, businesses, and government to one that Jill Esbenshade calls the social responsibility contract.She illustrates this by presenting the recent history of monitoring, with considerable attention to the most thorough of the Department of Labor's programs, the one in Los Angeles. Esbenshade also explains the maze of alternative approaches being employed worldwide to decide the questions of what should be monitored and by whom. Jill Esbenshade is Assistant Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University.Trade Review"Jill Esbenshade's Monitoring Sweatshops presents the best empirical overview to date of what watchful monitoring can do and has accomplished. Esbenshade marshals many well-documented examples." International Labour Review "Monitoring Sweatshops critically assesses the global regulatory regime that emerged to fight the sweatshop...Esbenshade clearly summarizes the social compact that emerged from garment unionization and the growth of the welfare state during the first half of the twentieth century." National Women's Studies Association Journal "Esbenshade brilliantly explains the emerging system of labor relations in the highly-globalized apparel industry, analyzes the weakness of the industry's preferred approach, and offers an alternative way to combat sweatshop production...Monitoring Sweatshops is one of the few works to seriously and systematically address the issue of monitoring as a means of combating sweatshops. This is a must-read book...It should also be taken seriously by the growing number of firms that are placing increasing reliance on a system of monitoring that is fundamentally flawed." Contemporary Sociology "A important and timely study that demonstrates that voluntary, corporate-sponsored monitoring is no substitute for independent accountability through government regulation and a free labor movement. Especially in an era of globalization and outsourcing of jobs, it is more imperative than ever that monitoring be credible and that consumers be attuned to the conditions under which products are manufactured if the social contract and economic justice are to be preserved. Oversight, whether by concerned industries or benevolent government, will not achieve sustained improvements in working conditions in the absence of free unions organized by employees to safeguard their own rights." --U.S. Congressman George Miller, Senior Democrat, Committee on Education & the Workforce "When clothing companies tried to shed the 'sweatshop' moniker by writing a Code of Conduct and hiring their own monitors to check factory conditions, few were better placed than academic/activist Jill Esbenshade to provide a critique. Monitoring Sweatshops is a fascinating look at companies' attempts to silence their critics, workers' efforts to improve their conditions, activists' campaigns to pressure the companies, and the public's desire to be responsible consumers. Monitoring Sweatshops is the best analysis to date of monitoring that is designed to placate consumers and maintain the status quo. Anyone concerned about the conditions under which our clothes are made should read this book." --Medea Benjamin, Founding Director, Global Exchange "This book is a richly detailed, first-hand account of the rise of private monitoring in the global apparel industry. Esbenshade dissects the power relationships and conflicts of interest within the monitoring paradigm, and presents the challenging conclusion that without greater involvement by workers themselves, international monitoring cannot effectively address the sweatshop problem. Monitoring Sweatshops is a must read for anyone who hopes to understand and change the contemporary global production system." --Gary Gereffi, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Monitoring, Sweatshops, and Labor Relations 1. The Rise and Fall of the Social Contract in the Apparel Industry 2. The Social-Accountability Contract 3. Private Monitoring in Practice 4. Weaknesses and Conflicts in Private Monitoring 5. The Development of International Monitoring 6. Examining International Codes of Conduct and Monitoring Efforts 7. The Struggle for Independent Monitoring Conclusion: Workers, Consumers, and Independent Monitoring Appendix 1: Confessions of a Sweatshop Monitor by Joshua Samuel Brown Appendix 2: Research Methods Appendix 3: List of Interviews Appendix 4: Acronyms and Abbreviations Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMonitoring Sweatshops offers the first comprehensive assessment of efforts to address and improve conditions in garment factories. Jill Esbenshade describes the government's efforts to persuade retailers and clothing companies to participate in private monitoring programs. She shows the different approaches to monitoring that firms have taken, and the variety of private monitors employed, from large accounting companies to local non-profits. Esbenshade also shows how the efforts of the anti-sweatshop movement have forced companies to employ monitors overseas as well. When monitoring is understood as the result of the withdrawal of governments from enforcing labor standards as well as the weakening of labor unions, it becomes clear that the United States is experiencing a shift from a social contract between workers, businesses, and government to one that Jill Esbenshade calls the social responsibility contract. She illustrates this by presenting the recent history of monitoring, with considerable attention to the most thorough of the Department of Labor's programs, the one in Los Angeles. Esbenshade also explains the maze of alternative approaches being employed worldwide to decide the questions of what should be monitored and by whom.Trade Review"A important and timely study that demonstrates that voluntary, corporate-sponsored monitoring is no substitute for independent accountability through government regulation and a free labor movement. Especially in an era of globalization and outsourcing of jobs, it is more imperative than ever that monitoring be credible and that consumers be attuned to the conditions under which products are manufactured if the social contract and economic justice are to be preserved. Oversight, whether by concerned industries or benevolent government, will not achieve sustained improvements in working conditions in the absence of free unions organized by employees to safeguard their own rights."-U.S. Congressman George Miller, Senior Democrat, Committee on Education & the Workforce "When clothing companies tried to shed the 'sweatshop' moniker by writing a Code of Conduct and hiring their own monitors to check factory conditions, few were better placed than academic/activist Jill Esbenshade to provide a critique. Monitoring Sweatshops is a fascinating look at companies' attempts to silence their critics, workers' efforts to improve their conditions, activists' campaigns to pressure the companies, and the public's desire to be responsible consumers. Monitoring Sweatshops is the best analysis to date of monitoring that is designed to placate consumers and maintain the status quo. Anyone concerned about the conditions under which our clothes are made should read this book."-Medea Benjamin, Founding Director, Global Exchange "This book is a richly detailed, first-hand account of the rise of private monitoring in the global apparel industry. Esbenshade dissects the power relationships and conflicts of interest within the monitoring paradigm, and presents the challenging conclusion that without greater involvement by workers themselves, international monitoring cannot effectively address the sweatshop problem. Monitoring Sweatshops is a must read for anyone who hopes to understand and change the contemporary global production system."-Gary Gereffi, Duke University "Jill Esbenshade's clear, careful and insightful Monitoring Sweatshops exposes the inadequacy of corporations' claims that they are holding their subcontractors to voluntary 'codes of conduct.' ...As the first serious effort to gather and analyze evidence about new approaches to industrial regulation, Monitoring Sweatshops makes a significant contribution to our understanding of globalization, and to continuing efforts to shape globalization in ways that will benefit workers as well as consumers."-Industrial and Labor Relations Review "In this important book, Jill Esbenshade skillfully pieces together a mass of evidence that challenges the wisdom and effectiveness of private monitoring as practiced in the global apparel industry... This is an ambitious book that draws on rich interview data and case study materials to weave together a complex story of the various corporate, grass roots, and worker efforts to police and abusive industry. It succeeds on all fronts. It should be of interest to students of social movements, stratification, and labor, and for those who are concerned about how their clothes are made."-MobilizationTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Monitoring, Sweatshops, and Labor Relations1. The Rise and Fall of the Social Contract in the Apparel Industry2. The Social-Accountability Contract3. Private Monitoring in Practice4. Weaknesses and Conflicts in Private Monitoring5. The Development of International Monitoring6. Examining International Codes of Conduct and Monitoring Efforts7. The Struggle for Independent MonitoringConclusion: Workers, Consumers, and Independent MonitoringAppendix 1: Confessions of a Sweatshop Monitor by Joshua Samuel BrownAppendix 2: Research MethodsAppendix 3: List of InterviewsAppendix 4: Acronyms and AbbreviationsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn The Coming Jobs War, Clifton makes the bold assertion that job creation and successful entrepreneurship are the world’s most pressing issues right now, outpacing runaway government spending, environmental degradation and even the threat of global terrorism. The book is grounded in findings from Gallup’s World Poll, which reveals the implications of the jobs war on everything from economics to foreign policy to nothing less than America’s moral authority in the world. And it offers a prescription for attacking the jobs issue head-on. Clifton argues that the solution to creating good jobs must be found in cities, not in the federal government. Promoting entrepreneurship and job creation must be the sole mission and purpose of cities’ business leaders, government officials and philanthropists. Winning the jobs war will require all hands on deck, and failure is not an option, especially for the United States, which has been the global leader in promoting freedom and entrepreneurship. America’s place in the world is at stake, and there are other countries poised to surpass a sputtering U.S. economy. While the statistics are dire, Clifton remains optimistic about America’s ability to win the jobs war because America has been here before. “The Greatest Generation saved America by beating the Japanese and Germans at [World War II]. The Baby Boomers saved America a second time by beating the same foes, Japan and Germany, in an economic war that determined the leadership of the free world, again,” he says.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been an increase in new forms of employment. Namely, thanks to the use of platforms in business and the emergence of the ""gig economy"", there are gradual changes in this domain. These include part-time, temporary, informal, and unpaid family work. This type of employment can be defined as any job, but only of short or uncertain duration.The experiences gained by the countries of the European Union, as well as the countries of the Western Balkans from the COVID-19 crisis, during which they used new technologies in work, should in the future make working systems even more adapted to the digital age.At last, whether working from home is the product of one's own choice or is the result of a pandemic or other environmental shock, the change in the way work is done is real and governments must understand the implications and take steps to position their economies accordingly.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been an increase in new forms of employment. Namely, thanks to the use of platforms in business and the emergence of the ""gig economy"", there are gradual changes in this domain. These include part-time, temporary, informal, and unpaid family work. This type of employment can be defined as any job, but only of short or uncertain duration.The experiences gained by the countries of the European Union, as well as the countries of the Western Balkans from the COVID-19 crisis, during which they used new technologies in work, should in the future make working systems even more adapted to the digital age.At last, whether working from home is the product of one's own choice or is the result of a pandemic or other environmental shock, the change in the way work is done is real and governments must understand the implications and take steps to position their economies accordingly.

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Book SynopsisAs jobs disappear and wages flat-line, paid work is an increasingly fragile and unattainable basis for dignified life. This predicament, deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic, is sparking urgent debates about alternatives such as a universal basic income (UBI). Highly topical and distinctive in its approach, In the Balance is the most rounded and up-to-date examination yet of the need and prospects for a UBI in a global South setting such as South Africa.Hein Marais casts the debate about a UBI in the wider context of the dispossessing pressures of capitalism and the onrushing turmoil of global warming, pandemics and social upheaval. Marais surveys the meaning, history and appeal of a UBI before even-handedly weighing the case for and against such an intervention. The book explores the vexing questions a UBI raises about the relationship of paid work to social rights, about prevailing notions of entitlement and dependency, and the role of the state in contemporary capitalism.Along with cost estimates for different versions of a basic income in South Africa, it discusses financing options and lays out the social, economic and political implications. This incisive new book advances both our theoretical and practical understanding of the prospects for a UBI.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The crisis of waged work Chapter 2 Behind the idea of a universal basic income Chapter 3 The attractions of a universal basic income Chapter 4 Testing the arguments against Chapter 5 Financing a universal basic income Chapter 6 The politics and economics of a universal basic income Chapter 7 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains nine original innovative chapters on worker well-being. Three chapters are on time allocated to work and human capital acquisition, three on aspects of risk in the earnings process, two on migration, and finally one on how tax policies affect poverty. Questions answered include: Are more educated women now opting out of work with a higher probability than in the past? Under what circumstances do young adults allocate non-school time to educational pursuits? How do macroeconomic shocks affect labor force participation rates? Can tax policies alleviate poverty? Are workers compensated adequately for taking risks? Do differences in private and public sector earnings affect mobility between the two sectors? And, do migrant parents affect educational decisions of their offspring?Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Chapter 1 How do Adolescents Spell Time Use? An Alternative Metholological Approach For Analyzing Time-Diary DATA. Chapter 2 The Opt-Out Revolution: Recent Trends in Female Labor Supply. Chapter 3 Female Labor Participation and Occupation Decisions in Post-NAFTA Mexico. Chapter 4 A Risk Augmented Mincer Earnings Equation? Taking Stock. Chapter 5 Workers’ Mobility and the Return to Education, Evidence from Public and Private Sectors. Chapter 6 Foregone Earnings from Smoking: Evidence for a Developing Country. Chapter 7 The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Toward Temporary Migrants. Chapter 8 Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, And High School Graduation In México. Chapter 9 In-Work Transfers in Good Times and Bad: Simulations for Ireland. Chapter 10 Exploring the Determinants of Employment in Europe: The Role of Services. Research in Labor Economics. Research in Labor Economics. Research in Labor Economics. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisThe Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations is an essential resource for those seeking to understand contemporary developments in the world of work, and the way in which employment relations systems are evolving around the world. Special consideration is given to the impact of globalization and the role of multinational corporations, including their consequences for the fate of workers' rights under existing national systems of employment relations (ER) regulation. This Handbook is unique in taking an explicitly comparative approach by discussing ER developments through a series of paired country comparisons. These chapters include a wide selection of countries from all regions, looking beyond those that are frequently discussed. The expert contributors also examine comparative issues from a range of perspectives, including industrial and employment relations, political economy, comparative politics, and cross-cultural studies. These impressive features make this important reference tool the most comprehensive of its kind. Academics and students in final-year undergraduate and postgraduate courses interested in employment relations will find this compendium enriching and insightful.Contributors include: M. Atzeni, L. Baccarro, M. Barry, D. Collings, F.L. Cooke, S. Cooney, T. Dundon, F. Duran, I. Forstenlechner, P. Gahan, P. Gunnigle, T. Jackson, E.H. Jung, B. Kaufman, J. Kelly, J. Lavelle, K. Mellahi, R. Mitchell, P. Pochet, T. Royle, A. Verma, N. Wailes, A. Wilkinson, G. Wood, S. ZalgermeyerTrade Review’This Research Handbook is a highly readable and thought-provoking account of comparative employment relations in current published texts. The breadth and depth of this book are remarkable and it will serve as a very valuable introductory text to students and researchers interested in comparative employment relations and global governance of employment relations.’ -- Wei Huang, Work, Employment and Society‘Besides a well-written introduction by the two editors, the book presents seventeen other chapters, some by well-known writers on the subject or related social sciences. . . This is a substantial resource book for scholars and students of comparative ER, especially for those who look towards the evolution of ER in the new economic world that is in formation, and in a comparative perspective. . . the book contains intellectually stimulating analyses of employee relations realities across the globe. . . Scholars belonging to different disciplinary perspectives, from which ER has been studied in the past, will also find in it a good reference material of comparative analyses. . . The publishers too deserve accolades for their professionalism and first rate copy-editing and production.’ -- Debi S. Saini, Vision - the Journal of Business Perspectives‘The book is a comprehensive volume of studies on employment relations in a wide variety of settings. . .an enriching compendium.’ -- Silvia Florea, Management of Sustainable DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Re-examining Comparative Employment Relations Michael Barry and Adrian Wilkinson PART II: PERSPECTIVES 2. Comparative Employment Relations: Institutional and Neo-institutional Theories Bruce E. Kaufman 3. The Political Economy of Comparative Employment Relations John Kelly 4. Legal Origins, Labour Law and the Regulation of Employment Relations Sean Cooney, Peter Gahan and Richard Mitchell 5. Cross-cultural Studies Terence Jackson PART III: PAIRED COUNTRY COMPARISONS 6. Employment Relations in Chile and Argentina Maurizio Atzeni, Fernando Durán-Palma and Pablo Ghigliani 7. Employment Relations in Canada and the US Sara Slinn and Richard W. Hurd 8. Employment Relations in China and India Fang Lee Cooke 9. Employment Relations in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Tony Dundon and David G. Collings 10. Employment Relations in Japan and Korea EeHwan Jung 11. Employment Relations in Belgium and the Netherlands Hester Houwing, Maarten Keune, Philippe Pochet and Kurt Vandaele 12. Employment Relations in Australia and New Zealand Nick Wailes 13. Employment Relations in South Africa and Mozambique Geoffrey Wood 14. Employment Relations in France and Germany Stefan Zagelmeyer 15. Employment Relations in Oil-rich Gulf Countries Kamel Mellahi and Ingo Forstenlechner PART IV: BROADER COMPARATIVE INFLUENCES 16. Corporatism Meets Neoliberalism: The Irish and Italian Cases in Comparative Perspective Lucio Baccaro 17. The Role of MNEs David G. Collings, Jonathan Lavelle and Patrick Gunnigle 18. Regulating Global Capital through Public and Private Codes: An Analysis of International Labour Standards and Corporate Voluntary Initiatives Tony Royle Index

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Book SynopsisOne might mistakenly think that the long tradition of economic analysis in antitrust law would mean there is little new to say. Yet the field is surprisingly dynamic and changing. The specially commissioned chapters in this landmark volume offer a rigorous analysis of the field's most current and contentious issues. Focusing on those areas of antitrust economics that are most in flux, leading scholars discuss topics such as: mergers that create unilateral effects or eliminate potential competition; whether market definition is necessary; tying, bundled discounts, and loyalty discounts; a new theory of predatory pricing; assessing vertical price-fixing after Leegin; proving horizontal agreements after Twombly; modern analysis of monopsony power; the economics of antitrust enforcement; international antitrust issues; antitrust in regulated industries; the antitrust-patent intersection; and modern methods for measuring antitrust damages. Students and scholars of law and economics, law practitioners, regulators, and economists with an interest in industrial organization and consulting will find this seminal Handbook an essential and informative resource. Contributors: J.B. Baker, R.D. Blair, A. Bradford, N. Economides, A. Edlin, E. Elhauge, D.S. Evans, J.S. Haynes, B. Klein, A.K. Klevorick, I.B. Kohler-Hausmann, J. Kwoka, D. Reitman, D.L. Rubinfeld, H.A. Shelanski, C.J. Sprigman, A.L. WickelgrenTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction and Overview to Current Issues in Antitrust Economics Einer Elhauge PART I: MERGERS AND MARKET DEFINITION 2. Research Topics in Unilateral Effects Analysis Jonathan B. Baker and David Reitman 3. Lightening Up on Market Definition David S. Evans 4. Mergers that Eliminate Potential Competition John Kwoka PART II: AGREEMENTS AND UNILATERAL CONDUCT 5. Tying, Bundling, and Loyalty/Requirement Rebates Nicholas Economides 6. Predatory Pricing Aaron Edlin 7. Assessing Resale Price Maintenance After Leegin Benjamin Klein 8. The Plausibility of Twombly: Proving Horizontal Agreements After Twombly Alvin K. Klevorick and Issa B. Kohler-Hausmann 9. Monopsony, Monopsony Power, and Antitrust Policy Roger D. Blair and Jessica S. Haynes PART III: ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT 10. Issues in Antitrust Enforcement Abraham L. Wickelgren 11. Antitrust Law in Global Markets Anu Bradford 12. Antitrust and Regulation Howard A. Shelanski 13. The Intersection of Patent and Antitrust Law Christopher Jon Sprigman 14. Antitrust Damages Daniel L. Rubinfeld Index

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Book SynopsisGendered Lives deserves to find its way onto the bookshelf of students and scholars seeking to better understand the big picture of gender dynamics at home and at work, particularly as it plays out in the British context. Graduate students will likely most appreciate the broad overview the book provides, and I can see it provoking lively debate in advanced classes. Scholars with more focused interests will also no doubt find considerable value in particular chapters, while also being prompted to new insights and connections by the diversity of disciplinary contributions.'- S. Fuller, University of British Columbia, Canada'This state-of-the art collection brings together the latest research of eminent experts in the field. It combines a wide sweep with focused analysis of gender dynamics at home and at work, and the interaction between them. A longitudinal and life course perspective underpins the authors' assessment of the current state of gender inequality, and helps explain why some domains are more resistant to change than others. This timely and innovative volume will be an excellent resource for academics and policy-makers alike.' - Miriam Glucksmann, University of Essex, UK This meticulous book examines how gender inequalities in contemporary societies are changing and how further changes towards greater gender equality might be achieved. The focus of the book is on inequalities in production and reproductive activities, as played out over time and in specific contexts. It examines the different forms that gendered lives take in the household and the workplace, and explores how gender equalities may be promoted in a changing world. Gendered Lives offers many novel and sometimes unexpected findings that contribute to new understandings of not only the causes of gender inequalities but also the ongoing implications for economic well-being and societal integration. This topical and interdisciplinary study by leading researchers in the field will appeal to course leaders, researchers and postgraduate students in sociology, economics, public policy, demography and human geography. Social scientists interested in gender equality, labor market behavior and public policy will also find much to interest them in this fascinating book. Contributors: A. Batnitzky, F. Bennett, E. Bukodi, J. De Henau, S. Deakin, S. Dex, S. Dyer, J. Gershuny, S. Himmelweit, J. Hobcraft, H. Joshi, M.Y. Kan, J. Lewis, L. McDowell, C. McLaughlin, A.C. Plagnol, J. Scott, W. Sigle-Rushton, S. SungTrade ReviewGendered Lives offers novel and sometimes unexpected findings that contribute to new understandings of not only the causes of gender inequalities but also the ongoing implications for economic well-being and societal integration. Although gender inequality is a well-worked field, the research presented in this book is both innovative and timely. --SirReadaLot.org[T]he book encompasses the myriad aspects of gender equality; the changes, legislations, achievements and challenges in different countries; and different policy contexts in the background of technological and social changes. It clearly brings out the influence of policy on social life and how it affects gender-based issues like work-life balance and childcare, among others. --Nandita Gupta, The Indian Journal of Labour EconomicsGendered Lives in a fascinating and innovative smorgasbord of new research, asking key questions about the nature and future of gender inequalities. The research presented is accessible at a senior undergraduate level, with more detail available in appendices for researchers. A ''state of the art'' work on gendered lives. --Susan McDaniel, Canadian Studies in PopulationTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi and Anke C. Plagnol PART I: GENDERED LIVES UNFOLDING ACROSS TIME 1. The Childhood Origins of Adult Socio-economic Disadvantage: Do Cohort and Gender Matter? John Hobcraft and Wendy Sigle-Rushton 2. Changing Career Trajectories of Women and Men Across Time Erzsebet Bukodi, Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi 3. Halfway to Gender Equality in Paid and Unpaid Work? Evidence from the Multinational Time-use Study Jonathan Gershuny and Man Yee Kan PART II: GENDER INEQUALITIES IN THE HOUSEHOLD AND WORKPLACE 4. Financial Togetherness and Autonomy Within Couples Fran Bennett, Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit and Sirin Sung 5. Global Flows and Local Labour Markets: Precarious Employment and Migrant Workers in the UK Linda McDowell, Adina Batnitzky and Sarah Dyer PART III: GENDER INEQUALITIES IN A CHANGING WORLD 6. Equality Law and the Limits of the ‘Business Case’ for Addressing Gender Inequalities Colm McLaughlin and Simon Deakin 7. Work–Family Conflict and Well-being in Northern Europe Jacqueline Scott and Anke C. Plagnol 8. Gender Equality and Work–Family Balance in a Cross-national Perspective Jane Lewis Index

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Book SynopsisThe economics of worker cooperatives is a branch of economic inquiry with a long and esteemed pedigree, dating at least from the work of John Stuart Mill in the mid-nineteenth century. Since then, leading economists have paid intermittent attention to the topic, but the collapse of state-sponsored socialism in Eastern Europe and growing discontent with loosely-fettered capitalism have resulted in a resurgence of interest in worker co-operatives as a method of enhancing productivity and reducing income inequalities without heavy government regulation. Professor Pencavel's judicious selection of articles by leading scholars conveys the vigour and rigour of this new empirical research. His original introduction provides an authoritative guide to past and current thinking in this topical area and raises important issues, which point the way for further contributions to the already rich literature.Trade Review‘The Economics of Worker Cooperatives, edited by John Pencavel, is therefore a timely and important collection of theoretical and empirical pieces of research. Pencavel’s collection includes important classic writings on worker cooperatives and related business forms such as some collectives, as well as more contemporary commentaries and analyses. The range of selections is quite balanced overall, especially in addressing risks as well as advantages observed in the financial performance of worker cooperatives. . . The Economics of Worker Cooperatives is an excellent volume for anyone who wishes to become familiar with the array of economic issues implicated in worker cooperatives.’ -- Work, Employment and SocietyTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction John Pencavel PART I THE SETTING 1. Derek C. Jones (1976), ‘British Economic Thought on Association of Laborers 1848–1974’ 2. Gregory K. Dow (2003), ‘Workers’ Control in Action (I)’ and ‘Workers’ Control in Action (II)’ 3. Derek C. Jones (1984), ‘American Producer Cooperatives and Employee-Owned Firms: A Historical Perspective’ 4. Robert A. Dahl (1985), ‘Democracy and the Economic Order’ and ‘The Right to Democracy Within Firms’ 5. Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (1993), ‘A Political and Economic Case for the Democratic Enterprise’ 6. John P. Bonin, Derek C. Jones and Louis Putterman (1993), ‘Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Producer Cooperatives: Will Ever the Twain Meet?’ PART II ISSUES OF OWNERSHIP, FINANCING AND CHANGE 7. Louis Putterman (1993), ‘Ownership and the Nature of the Firm’ 8. Henry Hansmann (1990), ‘The Viability of Worker Ownership: An Economic Perspective on the Political Structure of the Firm’ 9. Eirik G. Furubotn (1976), ‘The Long-Run Analysis of the Labor-Managed Firm: An Alternative Interpretation’ 10. Jaroslav Vanek (1973), ‘Some Fundamental Considerations on Financing and the Form of Ownership under Labor Management’ 11. David P. Ellerman (1986), ‘Horizon Problems and Property Rights in Labor-Managed Firms’ 12. Avner Ben-Ner (1984), ‘On the Stability of the Cooperative Type of Organization’ 13. Hajime Miyazaki (1984), ‘On Success and Dissolution of the Labor-managed Firm in the Capitalist Economy’ PART III ECONOMIC MODELS 14. Benjamin Ward (1958), ‘The Firm in Illyria: Market Syndicalism’ 15. Evsey D. Domar (1966), ‘The Soviet Collective Farm as a Producer Cooperative’ 16. Walter Y. Oi and Elizabeth M. Clayton (1968), ‘A Peasant’s View of a Soviet Collective Farm’ 17. Saul Estrin (1982), ‘Long-Run Supply Responses under Self-Management’ 18. A. Steinherr and J.-F. Thisse (1979), ‘Are Labor-Managers Really Perverse?’ 19. A.A. Brewer and M.J. Browning (1982), ‘On the “Employment” Decision of a Labour-managed Firm’ 20. Hajime Miyazaki and Hugh M. Neary (1985), ‘Output, Work Hours and Employment in the Short Run of a Labour-Managed Firm’ 21. Murat R. Sertel (1987), ‘Workers’ Enterprises are not Perverse’ 22. Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis (2005), ‘Profit Sharing and the Role of Professional Partnerships’ PART IV SOME EMPIRICAL RESEARCH 23. John Pencavel and Ben Craig (1994), ‘The Empirical Performance of Orthodox Models of the Firm: Conventional Firms and Worker Cooperatives’ 24. John Pencavel, Luigi Pistaferri and Fabiano Schivardi (2006), ‘Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms’ 25. Gabriel Burdín and Andrés Dean (2009), ‘New Evidence on Wages and Employment in Worker Cooperatives Compared with Capitalist Firms’ 26. Ran Abramitzky (2011), ‘Lessons from the Kibbutz on the Equality-Incentives Trade-Off’

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Book SynopsisSince the mid 1990s, the focus of European employment and social policy has shifted from protection to promotion. This book provides a timely analysis of this new form of governance, and the new forms of policy delivery and audit which accompany it. The limitations of the current approach became particularly apparent during the financial crisis of 2008, and it has now reached a turning point. The book offers a new coherent European reform agenda that views easing transitions in employment and promoting the development of individual and collective capabilities as cornerstones. The contributing authors focus on vocational training, life course policies, reflexive labor law and social insurance, from theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives. Transforming European Employment Policy will be of great benefit to policy makers as well as those researching or studying European law, labor law, industrial relations, political science, social policy or international business. Contributors: P. Auer, J.-M. Bonvin, C. Crouch, S. Deakin, C. Didry, B. Gazier, P. Kaps, R. Rogowski, R. Salais, G. Schmid, H. Schutz, N. Whiteside, P. Wotschack, B. ZimmermannTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Robert Salais, Ralf Rogowski and Noel Whiteside PART I: SECURING TRANSITIONS AND PROMOTING CAPABILITIES Section 1.1. Securing Transitions through Flexicurity Policies, Placement Services and Working-time Accounts 2. Social and Labour Market Reforms: Four Agendas Peter Auer and Bernard Gazier 3. Transitional Labour Markets and Flexicurity: Managing Social Risks Over the Life Course Günther Schmid 4. Privatisation of Placement Services in Light of the Transitional Labour Market Approach Petra Kaps and Holger Schütz 5. Working-time Options Over the Life Course: Challenges and Company Practices Philip Wotschack Section 1.2. Promoting Capabilities 6. Making Employees’ Pathways More Secure: A Critical Examination of the Company’s Responsibility Bénédicte Zimmermann 7. Reframing the Issue of Responsibility in Labour Market Activation Policies Jean-Michel Bonvin 8. Creating Collective Capability: Historical Perspectives on Co-ordinating Public Action Noel Whiteside PART II: WHAT FUTURE FOR EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT POLICIES? 9. Occupational Structures and Social Models in European Societies Colin Crouch 10. Corporate Social Responsibility and Employment: A Plurality of Configurations Claude Didry 11. Reflexive Labour Law, Capabilities and the Future of Social Europe Simon Deakin and Ralf Rogowski 12. Employment and the Social Dimension of Europe: What Constitutive Conventions of the Market? Robert Salais Index

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Book SynopsisCai Fang has led Chinese and international understanding of the links between Chinese population and economic development over the past two decades. He has defined relationships that have been centrally important to structural change in China, with immense implications for the rest of the world. This book brings together the wisdom from decades of research at the frontiers of knowledge. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand today's world economy.'- Ross Garnaut, University of Melbourne, Australia'Cai Fang's book, China's Economic Growth Prospects, is masterful. This is a book only he could write. Dr Cai takes decades of theory and observations on the world's experience in growth and development, explains it in fully digestible terms and then applies it in a nuanced and understandable way to the reality of what happened, and what is happening, in China. It is a book that is full of hope; it is a book fraught with warnings. It is the only book I know of that truly captures today's China.'- Scott Rozelle, Senior Fellow, Stanford University, USChina has grown rapidly since the reform initiation of the 1970s. China's Economic Growth Prospects narrates the contribution of demographic transition to recent economic growth in China, and provides suggestions for ways in which it can sustain growth over the next few decades. The expert author provides reasons for the economic slowdown since the second decade of the twenty-first century; explores the challenges facing China's long-term sustainability of growth with the disappearance of demographic dividend; and proposes policy suggestions. He concludes that, in order to avoid the middle-income trap, economic growth in China must transform from an inputs-driven pattern, to a productivity-driven pattern.Academics, researchers and students of economics and business, particularly those specialising in China, will find this book to be a useful resource. Investment bankers, journalists, politicians and policy makers will find the discussions of past experience and the future potential of the Chinese economy to be of interest.Trade Review‘Cai Fang has led Chinese and international understanding of the links between Chinese population and economic development over the past two decades. He has defined relationships that have been centrally important to structural change in China, with immense implications for the rest of the world. This book brings together the wisdom from decades of research at the frontiers of knowledge. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand today's world economy.’ -- Ross Garnaut, University of Melbourne, Australia‘Cai Fang's book, China's Economic Growth Prospects, is masterful. This is a book only he could write. Dr Cai takes decades of theory and observations on the world's experience in growth and development, explains it in fully digestible terms and then applies it in a nuanced and understandable way to the reality of what happened, and what is happening, in China. It is a book that is full of hope; it is a book fraught with warnings. It is the only book I know of that truly captures today's China.’ -- Scott Rozelle, Senior Fellow, Stanford University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. At the Crossroads of Long-Term Development 2. The Development of a Dual Economy 3. The Lewis Turning Point 4. The Demographic Dividend 5. Growing Old before Getting Rich 6. The Risk of a Middle Income Trap 7. The New Engine of Economic Growth 8. Macroeconomic Policies in Transition 9. Human Capital Accumulation 10. Reducing Income Inequality 11. Labor Market Institutions and Social Protections 12. Reaping China's Reform Dividends Index

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Book SynopsisThis important title introduces the reader to the key theoretical and empirical issues concerning the topical field of law and economics of discrimination. The book begins with readings from Gary Becker's seminal work on the economics of discrimination followed by a series of papers that try to evaluate the degree of discrimination in labour markets and the extent to which government intervention has reduced this discrimination. In addition to examining discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and sexual orientation in the labour market, Professor Donohue explores the problem of discrimination in various consumer markets, in the criminal justice sphere, in education and in health care.Trade Review‘This collection assembles many of the most important law and economics articles on discrimination. Together, these articles show the progress that has been made in the last twenty years in using empirical evidence and field experiments to assess the nature and extent of discrimination in different areas, such as labor markets, credit markets, education and criminal justice.’ -- Jonathan Levin, Stanford University, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction John J. Donohue PART I GENERAL 1. Gary Becker (1971), ‘The Forces Determining Discrimination in the Market Place’ and ‘Employer Discrimination’ 2. Kerwin Kofi Charles and Jonathan Guryan (2008), ‘Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker’s The Economics of Discrimination’ 3. Kerwin Kofi Charles and Jonathan Guryan (2011), ‘Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress’ 4. James J. Heckman (1998), ‘Detecting Discrimination’ 5. Kenneth J. Arrow (1998), ‘What Has Economics to Say About Racial Discrimination?’ PART II EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION A Racial Discrimination 6. John J. Donohue III and James Heckman (1991), ‘Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks’ 7. Derek A. Neal and William R. Johnson (1996), ‘The Role of Premarket Factors in Black-White Wage Differences’ 8. Dan Black, Amelia Haviland, Seth Sanders and Lowell Taylor (2006), ‘Why Do Minority Men Earn Less? A Study of Wage Differentials among the Highly Educated’ 9. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan (2004), ‘Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination’ B Sex Discrimination 10. Richard A. Posner (1989), ‘An Economic Analysis of Sex Discrimination Laws’ 11. John J. Donohue III (1989), ‘Prohibiting Sex Discrimination in the Workplace: An Economic Perspective’ 12. Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse (2000), ‘Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians’ 13. Uri Gneezy, Muriel Niederle and Aldo Rustichini (2003), ‘Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences’ 14. Kimberly Bayard, Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark and Kenneth Troske (2003), ‘New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages from Matched Employee-Employer Data’ C Sexual Orientation 15. Heather Antecol, Anneke Jong and Michael D. Steinberger (2008), ‘The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting and Human Capital’ 16. Doris Weichselbaumer (2003), ‘Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Hiring’ D Statistical Discrimination 17. David H. Autor and David Scarborough (2008), ‘Does Job Testing Harm Minority Workers? Evidence from Retail Establishments’ PART III DISCRIMINATION IN VARIOUS CONSUMER MARKETS 18. Alicia H. Munnell, Geoffrey M.B. Tootell, Lynn E. Browne and James McEneaney (1996), ‘Mortgage Lending in Boston: Interpreting HMDA Data’ 19. John Yinger (1998), ‘Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets’ 20. Andrew Hanson and Zackary Hawley (2011), ‘Do Landlords Discriminate in the Rental Housing Market? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment in US Cities’ 21. Ian Ayres and Peter Siegelman (1995), ‘Race and Gender Discrimination in Bargaining for a New Car’ 22. John A. List (2004), ‘The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence from the Field’ PART IV DISCRIMINATION IN CRIMINAL SENTENCING AND POLICING 23. Darrell Steffensmeier, Jeffery Ulmer and John Kramer (1998), ‘The Interaction of Race, Gender, and Age in Criminal Sentencing: The Punishment Cost of being Young, Black, and Male’ 24. Shawn D. Bushway and Anne Morrison Piehl (2001), ‘Judging Judicial Discretion: Legal Factors and Racial Discrimination in Sentencing’ 25. David B. Mustard (2001), ‘Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Courts’ 26. Raymond Paternoster, Robert Brame, Sarah Bacon and Andrew Ditchfield (2004), ‘Justice by Geography and Race: The Administration of the Death Penalty in Maryland, 1978–1999’ 27. Nicola Persico (2009), ‘Racial Profiling? Detecting Bias Using Statistical Evidence’ PART V EDUCATIONAL DISCRIMINATION 28. Jonathan Guryan (2004), ‘Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates’ 29. Rema N. Hanna and Leigh L. Linden (2012), ‘Discrimination in Grading’ 30. Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Steven D. Levitt (2004), ‘Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School’ PART VI MEDICAL/HEALTH CARE DISCRIMINATION 31. Ana I. Balsa and Thomas G. McGuire (2001), ‘Statistical Discrimination in Health Care’ 32. Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan Skinner (2005), ‘Geographic Variation in Health Care and the Problem of Measuring Racial Disparities’

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Book SynopsisEstlund and Wachter have assembled a feast on the economic analysis of issues in labor and employment law for scholars and policy-makers. The volume begins with foundational discussions of the economic analysis of the individual employment relationship and collective bargaining. It then progresses to discussions of the theoretical and empirical work on a wide range of important labor and employment law topics including: union organizing and employee choice, the impact of unions on firm and economic performance, the impact of unions on the enforcement of legal rights, just cause for dismissal, covenants not to compete and employment discrimination. Anyone who wants to study what economists have to say on these topics would do well to begin with this collection.'- Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Indiana University Bloomington School of Law, USThis Research Handbook assembles the original work of leading legal and economic scholars, working in a variety of traditions and methodologies, on the economic analysis of labor and employment law.In addition to surveying the current state of the art on the economics of labor markets and employment relations, the volume's 16 chapters assess aspects of traditional labor law and union organizing, the law governing the employment contract and termination of employment, employment discrimination and other employer mandates, restrictions on employee mobility, and the forum and remedies for labor and employment claims.Comprising a variety of approaches, the Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law will appeal to legal scholars in labor and employment law, industrial relations scholars and labor economists.Contributors: R. Arnow-Richman, S. Deakin, Z.J. Eigen, R.A. Epstein, C.L. Estlund, S. Estreicher, B.T. Hirsch, A. Hyde, S. Issacharoff, C. Jolls, B.E. Kaufman, M.M. Kleiner, B.I. Sachs, E. Scharff, S.J. Schwab, M.L. Wachter, D. WeilTrade Review... if you are involved in any way with matters pertaining to trades union and/or employment legislation, you'll find this book an enlightening read... The book certainly offers interesting perspectives on employee-employer relationships, often a fraught and politically divisive subject, which is why you should read it. The extensive footnoting, reams of references and the detailed index provide any number of avenues for further research. --- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Introduction: The Economics of Labor and Employment Law Cynthia L. Estlund and Michael L. Wachter 2. Neoclassical Labor Economics: Its Implications for Labor and Employment Law Michael L. Wachter 3. Economic Analysis of Labor Markets and Labor Law: An Institutional/Industrial Relations Perspective Bruce E. Kaufman PART II: UNIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING 4. Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance Barry T. Hirsch 5. Union Organizing and the Architecture of Employee Choice Benjamin I. Sachs 6. The Deserved Demise of EFCA (and Why the NLRA Should Share its Fate) Richard A. Epstein 7. Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies Morris M. Kleiner and David Weil 8. The Union as Broker of Employment Rights Stewart J. Schwab PART III: EMPLOYEE RIGHTS AND EMPLOYER MANDATES 9. Bias and the Law of the Workplace Christine Jolls 10. From Just Cause to Just Notice in Reforming Employment Termination Law Rachel Arnow-Richman 11. The Law and Economics of Employment Protection Legislation Simon Deakin 12. Intellectual Property Justifications for Restricting Employee Mobility: A Critical Appraisal in Light of the Economic Evidence Alan Hyde 13. Antidiscrimination in Employment: The Simple, the Complex, and the Paradoxical Samuel Issacharoff and Erin Scharff 14. The Forum for Adjudication of Employment Disputes Samuel Estreicher and Zev J. Eigen PART IV: CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVES 15. The Striking Success of the National Labor Relations Act Michael L. Wachter 16. Why Workers Still Need a Collective Voice in the Era of Norms and Mandates Cynthia L. Estlund Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a fascinating, rich and comprehensive analytical account of the causes and consequences of austerity measures affecting the public sector in terms of pay and employment. The editors have assembled a broad array of contributions that really reflect the diversity within Europe, both in terms of how deep the financial crisis hit, and the drivers of public sector reforms. An absorbing and thought-provoking read.'- Jacqueline O Reilly, University of Brighton, UKAfter a first series of policy responses to the 2008-09 crisis aimed at sustaining domestic demand through expansionary anti-crisis packages, most European governments - starting with Greece, Ireland, Bulgaria and Romania, and followed by many others - have since put in place a series of restrictive budgetary policies aimed at reducing their budget deficits. With these new policies, a significant number of jobs and wages have been cut in the public sector. A number of expenditure items related to education and training have also been cut. These reforms have given rise to waves of protest throughout Europe.The goal of this volume is to study this 'public sector shock'. While budgetary reforms seek to ensure a more balanced and sound economic policy, they may generate new work inequalities among public sector employees, most particularly among women, who account for a considerable proportion of public sector employment. Cuts in education and training may also have an impact on the quality of human capital in both the public and private sectors, despite the fact that the recent crisis has shown the value of education as employees with better skills and training are more likely to maintain their jobs and incomes.The authors explore a number of questions, including: what types of reform have been implemented in the public sector and what are their implications in both the short and long term? On the economic side, what will be the impact on wages, and on job quantity and quality? On the social side, what will the effects be on inequality and social cohesion? And what will be the outcome for, and potential role of, social partners and social dialogue?On the basis of a comparative and comprehensive assessment, illustrated by case studies in education, health and public administration, policy issues are discussed with the aim of finding the right mix of public sector reforms.Contributors: S. Altwicker-Hámori, J.-I. Antón, D. Anxo, G. Bosch, K. Espenberg, V. Franicevic, J. Gautié, D. Grimshaw, J. Köll , J. Masso, T. Matkovic, Y. Monogios, R. Muñoz de Bustillo, P. O Connell, H. Rato, J. Rubery, W. Salverda, Z. Tzannatos, V. Vasile, D. Vaughan-WhiteheadTrade Review‘This is a very timely volume as Europe begins to reevaluate the enthusiasm its leaders have shown for austerity as a response to economic and fiscal crisis.’ -- P. K. Kresl, Choice‘This is a fascinating, rich and comprehensive analytical account of the causes and consequences of austerity measures affecting the public sector in terms of pay and employment. The editors have assembled a broad array of contributions that really reflect the diversity within Europe, both in terms of how deep the financial crisis hit, and the drivers of public sector reforms. An absorbing and thought-provoking read.’ -- Jacqueline O’Reilly, University of Brighton, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Guy Ryder 1. Public Sector Shock in Europe: Between Structural Reforms and Quantitative Adjustment Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead 2. Public Sector Adjustment and the Threat to Gender Equality Jill Rubery 3. Early Application of Fiscal Austerity Measures in the Baltic States Jaan Masso and Kerly Espenberg 4. Croatia: Public Sector Adaptation and its Impact on Working Conditions Vojmir Franičević and Teo Matković 5. France: The Public Service under Pressure Jérôme Gautié 6. Public Sector Adjustments in Germany: From Cooperative to Competitive Federalism Gerhard Bosch 7. Public Sector Adjustment Amidst Structural Adjustment in Greece: Subordinate, Spasmodic and Sporadic Zafiris Tzannatos and Yannis Monogios 8. Hungary: Public Sector Labour Market from Crisis to Crisis Szilvia Altwicker-Hámori and János Köllő 9. Cautious Adjustment in a Context of Economic Collapse: The Public Sector in the Irish Crises Philip O’Connell 10. The Netherlands: Wage Cuts No Longer a Constructive Option Wiemer Salverda 11. Portugal: Structural Reforms Interrupted by Austerity Helena Rato 12. Romania: A Country Under Permanent Public Sector Reform Valentina Vasile 13. Those Were the Days, My Friend: The Public Sector and the Economic Crisis in Spain Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo and José-Ignacio Antón 14. Early Fiscal Consolidation and Negotiated Flexibility in Sweden: A Fair Way Out of the Crisis? Dominique Anxo 15. Austerity, Privatization and Levelling Down: Public Sector Reforms in the United Kingdom Damian Grimshaw Index

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Book SynopsisWork sharing' is a labor market instrument devised to distribute a reduced volume of work to the same (or similar) number of workers over a diminished period of working time in order to avoid redundancies. This fascinating and timely study presents the concept and history of work sharing and explores the complexities and trade-offs involved in its use as both a strategy for preserving jobs and a policy for increasing employment.The expert contributors examine the resurgence in the use of work sharing as a job preservation strategy via country case studies of work-sharing programmes implemented across the globe during the Great Recession of 2008-2009. These studies clearly illustrate that work sharing has been successful as a crisis-response measure in a number of countries. Lessons learned and their implications are presented alongside prescriptions on how to design permanent work-sharing policies that would provide appropriate incentives to generate positive effects for employment and promote a sustainable and job-rich economic recovery.This enlightening book will prove invaluable to academics, researchers, students and policymakers in the fields of labor economics, public sector economics and social policy.Contributors: L. Bellmann, A. Crimmann, J. Flecker, H.-D. Gerner, N. Ghosheh, S. Glosser, L. Golden, M.J. González Fernández, J.C. Messenger, K. Ogura, A. Schönauer, F. Wießner, E. YeldanTable of ContentsContents: 1. An Introduction to Work Sharing: A Strategy for Preserving Jobs, Creating New Employment and Improving Individual Well-being Jon C. Messenger and Naj Ghosheh 2. Work Sharing as an Alternative to Layoffs: Lessons from the German Experience during the Crisis Lutz Bellmann, Andreas Crimmann, Hans-Dieter Gerner and Frank Wießner 3. European Diversity of Work Sharing as a Crisis Measure: The Experiences of Austria, Belgium, France and the Netherlands Jörg Flecker and Annika Schönauer 4. Work Sharing in Japan Kazuya Ogura 5. The Turkish Experience with Work-Sharing Policy during the Global Economic Crisis, 2008−2010 Erinç Yeldan 6. Results of the Implementation of the Suspension and Partial Unemployment Insurance Programmes in Uruguay, 2009−2010 María José González Fernández 7. Work Sharing as a Potential Policy Tool for Creating More and Better Employment: A Review of the Evidence Lonnie Golden and Stuart Glosser 8. Conclusion: Lessons Learned from the Great Recession and Implications for Policy Jon C. Messenger and Naj Ghosheh Index

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Book SynopsisThe 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged and ongoing period of extreme economic turbulence that has created multiple challenges for both governments and national systems of labour administration. Difficult economic conditions are encouraging a reevaluation of established policies and institutions in the areas of labour, employment, social protection and industrial relations. This book analyses recent reforms in labour administration and national labour policies, charting their development and discussing the challenges and opportunities faced by governments, ministries of labor, labor inspectors, employer organizations and trade unions.The contributors draw upon new and original research to explore issues including labour law, public employment services, labour inspection and industrial relations. They evaluate the effectiveness of implementation, addressing questions relating to the structure and management of labour ministries, regulatory bodies and the resources that they have at their disposal. Future prospects for labor administration are also considered.This book will prove a thought-provoking read for academics, researchers and students of economics - particularly labour economics, social policy and public administration. Policy-makers and practitioners involved with labor administration at any level will also find this book to be an invaluable reference tool.Contributors: N. Countouris, M. Freedland, J. Heyes, R. Hyman, C.T. King, D. Koeltz, M. Luz Vega, L. Rychly, J.T. WeishauptTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Moussa Oumarou 1. Introduction: The Origins and Development of Labour Administration Jason Heyes and Ludek Rychly 2. The Changing Fortunes of Labour Administration Ludek Rychly 3. Labour Policy and Administration in a Time of Crisis Jason Heyes 4. Labour Regulation and the Economic Crisis in Europe: Challenges, Responses and Prospects Nicola Countouris and Mark Freedland 5. The Role of Government in Industrial Relations Richard Hyman 6. Active Labour Market Policies and Programmes in Japan and the USA: Will East Meet West? Christopher T. King 7. Delivering Public Employment Services: Which Model Works Best? Donna Koeltz 8. Governing Public Employment Services: New Public Management, Social Partnership and Privatization J. Timo Weishaupt 9. Labour Inspection Systems: Strengthening Enforcement in Times of Crisis Maria Luz Vega 10. Conclusion Jason Heyes and Ludek Rychly References Index

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Book SynopsisThe authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and opportunities for improving working conditions. They illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key groups, including brands, suppliers, governments, workers and consumers.Using extended examples from China, Honduras, Bangladesh and the United States, as well as new quantitative evidence, the authors analyze stakeholders and mechanisms that create or obstruct opportunities for improving labor rights. They evaluate key clusters of actors and their interests in order to comprehensively map the complex interactions and relationships that make up global supply chains. Original data and analyses, including four in-depth case studies, present a systematic evaluation of the points of leverage for changing labor standards in sectors including apparel, footwear, and electronics.This exciting new contribution to a burgeoning field of study will benefit scholars of labor rights and human rights, as well as students with an interest in labor and working conditions. It also presents critical information for political scientists, NGOs, and practitioners looking to effect change in working conditions and learn more about key players in the global economy.Trade Review'Exhibiting a refreshing disregard for industry-approved narratives about labor rights, in which progress flows from the spigot of an espresso machine at a 'corporate social responsibility' seminar, the authors focus with precision on the factors that actually determine labor rights outcomes: the economic interests of global brands, and their suppliers, and how these are mediated by governments' regulatory choices and by the efforts of workers and allied groups to make brands pay a reputational price for the labor abuses they help create. Readers will better understand why early 20th century working conditions still exist in the 21st - and what might be done about it.' --Scott Nova, Executive Director, Worker Rights ConsortiumTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Worlds Brands Create 3. Aligning Interests Across Global Supply Chains: An Analytic Framework 4. The International Framework for Labour Standards 5. Labor Standards Around the World: A Quantitative Examination 6. The United States in the Struggle for Labor Standards 7. Apparel Production in Honduras: A Case of Cross-cluster Alignment 8. Apparel Production in Bangladesh: Opportunity Amidst Tragedy? 9. Labor Resistance and Local Government – Supplier Collusion in Post-1986 China 10. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThe authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and opportunities for improving working conditions. They illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key groups, including brands, suppliers, governments, workers and consumers.Using extended examples from China, Honduras, Bangladesh and the United States, as well as new quantitative evidence, the authors analyze stakeholders and mechanisms that create or obstruct opportunities for improving labor rights. They evaluate key clusters of actors and their interests in order to comprehensively map the complex interactions and relationships that make up global supply chains. Original data and analyses, including four in-depth case studies, present a systematic evaluation of the points of leverage for changing labor standards in sectors including apparel, footwear, and electronics.This exciting new contribution to a burgeoning field of study will benefit scholars of labor rights and human rights, as well as students with an interest in labor and working conditions. It also presents critical information for political scientists, NGOs, and practitioners looking to effect change in working conditions and learn more about key players in the global economy.Trade Review'Exhibiting a refreshing disregard for industry-approved narratives about labor rights, in which progress flows from the spigot of an espresso machine at a 'corporate social responsibility' seminar, the authors focus with precision on the factors that actually determine labor rights outcomes: the economic interests of global brands, and their suppliers, and how these are mediated by governments' regulatory choices and by the efforts of workers and allied groups to make brands pay a reputational price for the labor abuses they help create. Readers will better understand why early 20th century working conditions still exist in the 21st - and what might be done about it.' --Scott Nova, Executive Director, Worker Rights ConsortiumTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Worlds Brands Create 3. Aligning Interests Across Global Supply Chains: An Analytic Framework 4. The International Framework for Labour Standards 5. Labor Standards Around the World: A Quantitative Examination 6. The United States in the Struggle for Labor Standards 7. Apparel Production in Honduras: A Case of Cross-cluster Alignment 8. Apparel Production in Bangladesh: Opportunity Amidst Tragedy? 9. Labor Resistance and Local Government – Supplier Collusion in Post-1986 China 10. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis well-researched book analyzes the positioning of EU constitutional law towards economic and social integration by contrasting liberal and socially embedded constitutionalism. The book draws on a unique content and discourse analysis of all Grand Chamber decisions on substantive EU law since May 2004. It finds the EU's 'judicial constitution' to be more nuanced and more uniform than expected. While the Court of Justice enforces the constitution of integration, it favors economic freedoms under mainly liberal paradigms, but socially embeds constitutionalism in citizenship cases. The 'judicial constitution' contrasts with EU Treaties after the Treaty of Lisbon in that their new value base enhances European social integration. However, the Treaties too seem contradictory in that they do not expand the EU's competence regime accordingly. In the light of these contradictions, Dagmar Schiek proposes a 'constitution of social governance': the Court and EU institutions should encourage steps towards social integration at EU level to be taken by transnational societal actors, rather than condemn their relevant activity. Economic and Social Integration will appeal to academics and postgraduate students in EU law, EU politics, European sociology, international relations, international law, labor law, and welfare state theory. Undergraduate students in labor law, policy advisors on EU social policy and welfare state, government departments and EU Commission departments will also find much to interest them in this book.Trade Review'Dagmar Schiek has written a timely and vital book. Following financial and sovereign debt crises, the European Union is in crisis. As responses to crisis - for example fiscal union - appear to be couched in wholly technocratic terms, a European public is entitled to ask whether the European Union has any respect for established national traditions of social constitutionalism and social welfare. Dagmar Schiek addresses these questions, both in a historical and contemporary context of social constitutionalism, arguing forcefully for the need to establish social legitimacy within Europe. I recommend this book to all researchers and students of European Union.' --Michelle Everson, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK'Is there a ''European social space''? What is the place of ''social integration'' alongside ''economic integration'' in the EU? Has a ''socially embedded constitutionalism'' been developed in parallel with the internal market case law of the CJEU? Dagmar Schiek in her comprehensive and interdisciplinary study gives refreshing new answers under the recent Lisbon Treaty.' --Norbert Reich, Universitat Bremen, Germany'At a time of crisis and therefore a crucial juncture in European politics, Dagmar Schiek offers us an inspiring vision of the potential of the European Union. In her brilliant study, she exposes the obstacles that economic integration has posed for achievement of social justice, and provides a bold solution. Rejecting more limited models of constitutionalism, she presents a convincing alternative which is socially embedded, allowing space for action by manifold actors at multiple levels of governance.' --Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Economic and Social Integration 2. EU Constitutional Law 3. The Trajectory of EU Constitutional Law 4. The EU’s Judicial Constitution after Enlargement 5. Economic and Social Integration Under the EU’s Normative Constitution Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe European Social Model has been an integral part of the construction of the European Community and has been effective in stimulating its economic growth. This social dimension represents the soul of the European Union, and has been envied and adopted by other regions and countries in the world.Under the pressure of the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent introduction of austerity measures across Europe, many countries have reformed basic elements of the model including social protection, pensions, public services, workers' rights, quality of jobs, working conditions and social dialogue, often undermining social cohesion. These trends have raised questions: is Europe currently losing its legacy? If so, what are the social and economic implications, both in the short and longer term? The European Social Model in Crisis assesses social policy developments in each EU individual member state on the basis of detailed empirical evidence and concrete case studies.The volume is a timely warning about the weakening of the European Social Model and its possibly devastating future effects. The alternative options proposed here make the book essential reading for policy-makers, while scholars and researchers of European studies and social policy will find it an invaluable reference.Contributors include: J.I. Antón, D. Anxo, G. Bosch, R. Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente, K. Espenberg, A. Figueiredo, J. Gautié, P. González, D. Grimshaw, M. Karamessini, J. Masso, I. Mierina, Á. Scharle, A. Simonazzi, D. Szikra, D. Vaughan-WhiteheadTable of ContentsContents: Forward 1. The European Social Model in Times of Crisis: An Overview Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead 2. The Baltic States: Convergence with the European Social Model or Further Liberalisation? Jaan Masso and Kerly Espenberg and Inta Mierina 3. France’s Social Model: Between Resilience and Erosion Jérôme Gautié 4. The German Welfare State: From an Inclusive to an Exclusive Bismarckian Model Gerhard Bosch 5. The Greek Social Model: Towards a Deregulated Labour Market and Residual Social Protection Maria Karamessini 6. Recent Changes Moving Hungary Away from the European Social Model Ágota Scharle and Dorottya Szikra 7. Italy: Continuity and Change in Welfare State Retrenchment Annamaria Simonazzi 8. The European Social Model in a Context of Crisis and Austerity in Portugal Pilar González and António Figueiredo 9. Turning Back before Arriving: The Weakening of the Spanish Welfare State Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo and José-Ignacio Antón 10. The Swedish Social Model: Resilience and Success in Turbulent Times Dominique Anxo 11. Britain’s Social Model: Rapid Descent from ‘Liberal Collectivism’ to a ‘Market Society’ Damian Grimshaw Index

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Book SynopsisWhatever happened to the Swedish model? Once the prime example of a Nordic welfare state, Sweden's labour market is now a highly individualized competitive arena. With attention to detail as well as global trends, this important book describes the dismantling of the Swedish welfare state across various arenas where being employable is increasingly framed as an individual responsibility. This book offers unique insight into current shifts from state to market, from institutional loyalty to marketing of self.'- Marianne Lien, University of Oslo, Norway'What remains of the emblematic Swedish model of the welfare state? Taking the example of labor market policy, Makeshift Work brings to light a major shift: from the commodification of work to the commodification of workers. In depth empirical investigations into the institutional and individual consequences of this shift make this book a reference for understanding the current transformations in Swedish society and more generally brings into focus the challenges facing Europe as a whole.'- Bénédicte Zimmermann, EHESS, France'The rise and development of the Swedish model of labour market policy has been thoroughly dealt with in many important social science and economic analyses, but the present dismantling of the model and its consequences have only started to be understood. This book is therefore an extremely important contribution in that it combines concrete analyses of changes in the infrastructure of employment services and of the implications thereof from a human perspective.'- Jan Ch. Karlsson, Karlstad University, SwedenIn the aftermath of the global financial crisis, people who had never before had cause to worry about losing their jobs entered the ranks of the unemployed for the first time. In Sweden, the welfare state has been radically challenged and mass unemployment has become a reality in what used to be viewed as a model case for a full employment society.With an emphasis on Sweden in the context of transnational regulatory change, Makeshift Work in a Changing Labour Market discusses how the market mediates employment and moves on to explore the ways in which employees adjust to a new labor market. Focusing on the legibility, measurability and responsibility of jobseekers, the expert contributors to this book bring together an analysis of activation policy and new ways of organizing the mediation of work, with implications for the individual jobseeker.Students and researchers of labor market policy, the organization of markets and work and society both in Sweden and abroad will find this book to be of interest. Policy makers will find the empirical examples of policy processes among employees an extremely useful and insightful tool.Trade Review‘Whatever happened to the Swedish model? Once the prime example of a Nordic welfare state, Sweden’s labour market is now a highly individualized competitive arena. With attention to detail as well as global trends, this important book describes the dismantling of the Swedish welfare state across various arenas where being employable is increasingly framed as an individual responsibility. This book offers unique insight into current shifts from state to market, from institutional loyalty to marketing of self.’ -- Marianne Lien, University of Oslo, Norway‘What remains of the emblematic Swedish model of the welfare state? Taking the example of labor market policy, Makeshift Work brings to light a major shift: from the commodification of work to the commodification of workers. In depth empirical investigations into the institutional and individual consequences of this shift make this book a reference for understanding the current transformations in Swedish society and more generally brings into focus the challenges facing Europe as a whole.’ -- Bénédicte Zimmermann, EHESS, France‘The rise and development of the Swedish model of labour market policy has been thoroughly dealt with in many important social science and economic analyses, but the present dismantling of the model and its consequences have only started to be understood. This book is therefore an extremely important contribution in that it combines concrete analyses of changes in the infrastructure of employment services and of the implications thereof from a human perspective.’ -- Jan Ch. Karlsson, Karlstad University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Makeshift Work in a Global Labour Market Christina Garsten, Jessica Lindvert And Renita Thedvall PART I: A MARKET TO MEDIATE EMPLOYMENT TAKES SHAPE 2. A Policy for the New Job Market Jessica Lindvert 3. The Dual Role of the Public Employment Service: To Support and Control Lars Walter 4. Public Employment Officers as Agents and Therapists Julia Peralta 5. A Labour Market of Opportunities? Specialists Assess Work Ability and Disability Ida Seing 6. Temporary Staffing – Balancing Cooperation and Competition Gunilla Olofsdotter 7. Transition Programmes – A Disciplining Practice Ilinca Benson PART II: PEOPLE IN THE NEW LABOUR MARKET 8. Market-Oriented Relationships in Working Life – On the Perception of Being Employable Erik Berntson 9. Home Help Work: Balancing Loyalties Marie Hjalmarsson 10. In The Name of Evidence-Based Practice. Managing Social Workers Through Science, Standards and Transparency Renita Thedvall 11. Skills Development – An Empty Offer? Matilda Ardenfors and Jessica Lindvert 12. The Labour Market as a Market – Exchangeability, Measurability and Accountability Christina Garsten Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely research review pinpoints seminal works on active labour market policies. Topics covered in this review include econometric policy evaluation, social experiments, regression discontinuity designs, evaluations of active labour market policies and ending with final conclusions on evaluating the evaluations. Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Robert Lalonde PART I ECONOMETRIC POLICY EVALUATION 1. Anders Björklund and Robert Moffitt (1987), ‘The Estimation of Wage Gains and Welfare Gains in Self-Selection Models’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 69 (1), February, 42–49 2. James J. Heckman, Jeffrey Smith and Nancy Clements (1997), ‘Making the Most Out Of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments: Accounting for Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts’, Review of Economic Studies, 64 (4), October, 487–535 3. James Heckman and Salvador Navarro-Lozano (2004), ‘Using Matching, Instrumental Variables, and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 86 (1), February, 30–57 4. James J. Heckman and Edward Vytlacil (2005), ‘Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation’, Econometrica, 73 (3), May, 669–738 5. Edward Vytlacil (2002), ‘Independence, Monotonicity, and Latent Index Models: An Equivalence Result’, Econometrica, 70 (1), January, 331–41 6. J.P. Florens, J.J. Heckman, C. Meghir and E. Vytlacil (2008), ‘Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects’, Econometrica, 76 (5), September, 1191¬–206 7. Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman and Edward Vytlacil (2010), ‘Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin’, Econometrica, 78 (1), January, 377–94 8. Jeffrey M. Woolridge (1997), ‘On Two Stage Least Squares Estimation of the Average Treatment Effect in a Random Coefficient Model’, Economics Letters, 56 (2), October, 129–33 9. Whitney K. Newey (2009), ‘Two-step Series Estimation of Sample Selection Models’, Econometrics Journal, 12 (S1), January, S217–S219 10. Jinyong Hahn and Geert Ridder (2013), ‘Asymptotic Variance of Semiparametric Estimators with Generated Regressors’, Econometrica, 81 (1), January, 315–40 PART II SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS 11. James J. Heckman (1996), ‘Randomization as an Instrumental Variable’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 78 (2), May, 336–41 12. Joel L. Horowitz and Charles F. Manski (2000), ‘Nonparametric Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Missing Covariate and Outcome Data’, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95 (449), March, 77–84 13. James Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura, Jeffrey Smith and Petra Todd (1998), ‘Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data’, Econometrica, 66 (5), September, 1017–98 PART III METHOD OF MATCHING ESTIMATORS 14. Paul R. Rosenbaum and Donald B. Rubin (1983), ‘The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Observational Studies for Causal Effects’, Biometrika, 70 (1), April, 41–55 15. Donald B. Rubin and Neal Thomas (1996), ‘Matching Using Estimated Propensity Scores: Relating Theory to Practice’, Biometrics, 52 (1), March, 249–64 16. James J. Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura and Petra E. Todd (1998), ‘Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator’, Review of Economic Studies, 65 (2), April, 261–94 17. Jinyong Hahn (1998), ‘On the Role of the Propensity Score in Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Average Treatment Effects’, Econometrica, 66 (2), March, 315–31 18. Keisuke Hirano, Guido W. Imbens and Geert Ridder (2003), ‘Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Using the Estimated Propensity Score’, Econometrica, 71 (4), July, 1161¬–89 19. Alberto Abadie and Guido W. Imbens (2006), ‘Large Sample Properties of Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects’, Econometrica, 74 (1), January, 235–67 20. Alberto Abadie and Guido W. Imbens (2008), ‘On The Failure of the Bootstrap for Matching Estimators’, Econometrica, 76 (6), November, 1537–57 21. Alberto Abadie and Guido W. Imbens (2011), ‘Bias-Corrected Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects’, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 29 (1), January, 1–11 PART IV IV AND LATE ESTIMATORS 22. James Heckman (1997), ‘Instrumental Variables: A Study of Implicit Behavioral Assumptions Used in Making Program Evaluations’, Journal of Human Resources, 32 (3), Summer, 441–62 23. Guido W. Imbens (2004), ‘Nonparametric Estimation of Average Treatment Effects under Exogeneity: A Survey’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 86 (1), February, 4–29 24. Guido W. Imbens and Joshua D. Angrist (1994), ‘Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects’, Econometrica, 62 (2), March, 467–75 25. Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens (1995), ‘Two-Stage Least Squares Estimation of Average Causal Effects in Models with Variable Treatment Intensity’, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 90 (430), June, 431–42 26. Joshua D. Angrist, Guido W. Imbens and Donald B. Rubin (1996), ‘Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables’, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91 (434), June, 444–55 27. James J. Heckman, Sergio Urzua and Edward Vytlacil (2006), ‘Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity’, Review of Economics and Statistics, LXXXVIII (3), August, 389–432 28. Whitney K. Newey and James L. Powell (2003), ‘Instrumental Variable Estimation of Nonparametric Models’, Econometrica, 71 (5), September, 1565–78 PART V REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGNS 29. Jinyong Hahn, Petra Todd and Wilbert Van der Klaauw (2001), ‘Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects with a Regression-Discontinuity Design’, Econometrica, 69 (1), January, 201–9 30. David S. Lee and David Card (2008), ‘Regression Discontinuity Inference with Specification Error’, Journal of Econometrics, 142 (2), February, 655¬–74 31. David S. Lee and Thomas Lemieux (2010), ‘Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics’, Journal of Economic Literature, 48 (2), June, 281–355 32. Justin McCrary (2008), ‘Manipulation of the Running Variable in the Regression Discontinuity Design: A Density Test’, Journal of Econometrics, 142 (2), February, 698–714 PART VI DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES, INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING AND THE MIXING PROBLEM 33. Marianne Bertrand, Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan (2004), ‘How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119 (1), February, 249¬–75 34. Charles F. Manski (1997), ‘The Mixing Problem in Programme Evaluation’, Review of Economic Studies, 64 (4), October, 537–53 35. Jeffrey M. Woolridge (2007), ‘Inverse Probability Weighted Estimation for General Missing Data Problems’, Journal of Econometrics, 141 (2), December, 1281–301 PART VII DYNAMIC TREATMENT EFFECTS AND DURATION MODELS 36. Jaap H. Abbring and Gerard J. Van den Berg (2003), ‘The Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models’, Econometrica, 71 (5), September, 1491–517, Corrigendum 37. James J. Heckman and Salvador Navarro (2007), ‘Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects’, Journal of Econometrics, 136 (2), February, 341–96 38. Richard K. Crump, V. Joseph Hotz, Guido W. Imbens and Oscar A. Mitnik (2009), ‘Dealing with Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects’, Biometrika, 96 (1), March, 187–99 Volume II Acknowledgements Introduction An Introduction by the Editor appears in Volume I PART I SURVEYS OF EVALUATIONS OF ACTIVE LABOR MARKET POLICIES 1. David Friedlander, David H. Greenberg and Philip K. Robins (1997), ‘Evaluating Government Training Programs for the Economically Disadvantaged’, Journal of Economic Literature, XXXV (4), December, 1809–55 2. David Card, Jochen Kluve and Andrea Weber (2010), ‘Active Labour Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis’, Economic Journal, 120, 548, November, F452–F477 PART II EVALUATIONS OF SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS 3. Howard S. Bloom, Larry L. Orr, Stephen H. Bell, George Cave, Fred Doolittle, Winston Lin and Johannes M. Bos (1997), ‘The Benefits and Costs of JTPA Title II-A Programs: Key Findings from the National Job Training Partnership Act Study’, Journal of Human Resources, 32 (3), Summer, 549–76 4. Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker and Petra E. Todd (2011), ‘Do Conditional Cash Transfers for Schooling Generate Lasting Benefits?: A Five-Year Follow-up of PROGRESA/Oportunidades’, Journal of Human Resources, 46 (1), Winter, 93–122 5. Peta Z. Schochet, John Burghardt and Sheena McConnell (2008), ‘Does Job Corps Work? Impact Findings from the National Job Corps Study’, American Economic Review, 98 (5), December, 1864–86 PART III NON-EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS 6. Michael Lechner (1999), ‘Earnings and Employment Effects of Continuous Off-the-Job Training in East Germany after Unification’, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 17 (1), January, 74–90 7. Markus Frölich, Almas Heshmati and Michael Lechner (2004), ‘A Microeconometric Evaluation of Rehabilitation of Long-Term Sickness in Sweden’, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 19 (3), May/June, 375–96 ] 8. Michael Gerfin and Michael Lechner (2002), ‘A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland’, Economic Journal, 112 (482), October, 854–93 9. James J. Heckman and Paul A. LaFontaine (2006), ‘Bias-Corrected Estimates of GED Returns’, Journal of Labor Economics, 24 (3), July, 661–700 10. Louis Jacobson, Robert Lalonde and Daniel G. Sullivan (2005), ‘Estimating the Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers’, Journal of Econometrics, 125 (1-2), March-April, 271–304 PART IV HETEROGENEITY IN TREATMENT EFFECTS 11. Michael Lechner (2002), ‘Program Heterogeneity and Propensity Score Matching: An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labor Market Policies’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 84 (2), May, 205–20 12. Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman and Edward J. Vytlacil (2011), ‘Estimating Marginal Returns to Education’, American Economic Review, 101 (6), October, 2754–81 PART V EVALUATIONS USING IV, RD DESIGNS, AND MATCHING ESTIMATORS 13. Joshua D. Angrist (1989), ‘Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Records’, American Economic Review, 80 (3), June, 313–36 14. Dan A. Black, Jeffrey A. Smith, Mark C. Berger and Brett J. Noel (2003), ‘Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective Than the Services Themselves? Evidence from Random Assignment in the UI System’, American Economic Review, 93 (4), September, 1313–27 15. Wilbert Van der Klaauw (2002), ‘Estimating the Effect of Financial Aid Offers on College Enrollment: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach’, International Economic Review, 43 (4), November, 1249–87 16. James J. Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura and Petra E. Todd (1997), ‘Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme’, Review of Economic Studies, 64 (4), October, 605–54 17. Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch (2013), ‘The Performance of Estimators Based on the Propensity Score’, Journal of Econometrics, 175 (1), July, 1–21 18. Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch (2013), ‘Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables’, Labour Economics, 21, April, 111–21 19. Matias Busso, John DiNardo and Justin McCrary (2014), ‘New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Reweighting and Matching Estimators’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 96 (5), December, 885–97 PART VI ACCOUNTING FOR DROPOUTS, ASHENFELTER’S DIP AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS 20. James Heckman, Jeffrey Smith and Chrsitopher Taber (1998), ‘Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Programs’, Review of Economic and Statistics, LXXX (1), February, 1–14 21. James J. Heckman and Jeffrey A. Smith (1999), ‘The Pre-Programme Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Programme. Implications for Simple Programme Evaluation Strategies’, Economic Journal, 109 (457), July, 313–48 22. James J. Heckman, Carolyn Heinrich and Jeffrey Smith (2002), ‘The Performance of Performance Standards’, Journal of Human Resources, 37 (4), Autumn, 778–811 PART VII THE EFFECT ON DURATIONS OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYMENT 23. John C. Ham and Robert J. Lalonde (1996), ‘The Effect of Sample Selection and Initial Conditions in Duration Models: Evidence from Experimental Data on Training’, Econometrica, 64 (1), January, 175–205 24. Curtis Eberwein, John C. Ham and Robert J. Lalonde (1997), ‘The Impact of Being Offered and Receiving Classroom Training on the Employment Histories of Disadvantaged Women: Evidence from Experimental Data’, Review of Economic Studies, 64 (4), October, 655–82 25. Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw and Jan C. van Ours (2004), ‘Punitive Sanctions and the Transition Rate from Welfare to Work’, Journal of Labor Economics, 22 (1), January, 211–41 26. Jaap H. Abbring, Gerard J. van den Berg and Jan C. van Ours (2005), ‘The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions on the Transition Rate from Unemployment to Employment’, Economic Journal, 115 (505), July, 602–30 27. Barbara Sianesi (2004), ‘An Evaluation of the Swedish System of Active Labor Market Programs in the 1990s’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 86 (1), February, 133–55 28. Peter Fredriksson and Per Johansson (2008), ‘Dynamic Treatment Assignment: The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data’, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 26 (4), October, 435¬–45 PART VIII EVALUATING THE EVALUATIONS 29. Daniel Friedlander and Philip K. Robins (1995), ‘Evaluating Program Evaluations: New Evidence on Commonly Used Nonexperimental Methods’, American Economic Review, 85 (4), September, 923–37 30. Rajeev H. Dehejia and Sadek Wahba (1999), ‘Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs’, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94 (448), December, 1053–62 31. Rajeev H. Dehejia and Sadek Wahba (2002), ‘Propensity Score-Matching Methods for Nonexperimental Causal Studies’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 84 (1), February, 151–61 32. Juan Jose Diaz and Sudhanshu Handa (2006), ‘An Assessment of Propensity Score Matching as a Nonexperimental Impact Estimator: Evidence from Mexico’s PROGRESA Program’, Journal of Human Resources, 41 (2), Spring, 319–45 33. Stevem Glazerman, Dan M. Levy and David Myers (2003), ‘Nonexperimental versus Experimental Estimates of Earnings Impacts’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 589, September, 63–93 34. Charles Michalopoulos, Howard S. Bloom and Carolyn J. Hill (2004), ‘Can Propensity-Score Methods Match the Findings from a Random Assignment Evaluation of Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programs?’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 86 (1), February, 156–79 35. Jeffrey A. Smith and Petra E. Todd (2005), ‘Does Matching Overcome LaLonde’s Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?’, Journal of Econometrics, 125 (1-2), March-April, 305–53 36. Elizabeth Ty Wilde and Robinson Hollister (2007), ‘How Close Is Close Enough? Evaluating Propensity Score Matching Using Data from a Class Size Reduction Experiment’, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 26 (3), Summer, 455–77

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Book Synopsis'Good governance, social stabilization and economic justice are not luxuries that weigh down and impede the process of development. They are the essence of development itself. This book provides the documentation required to carry the point.'- From the foreword by James K. GalbraithLabor market institutions, including collective bargaining, the regulation of employment contracts and social protection policies, are instrumental for improving the well-being of workers, their families and society. In many countries, these institutions have been eroded, whilst in other countries they do not exist at all.Labour Markets, Institutions and Inequality includes empirical case studies, from both developed and developing countries, which examine the role of institutions in ensuring equitable income distribution. The volume discusses the effect of macroeconomic, labor and social policies on inequality, highlighting how specific groups such as women, migrants and younger workers are affected by labor market institutions. Expert contributions demonstrate that in order to reduce inequality, countries must strengthen their labour market institutions through comprehensive policy formulation.Contributors: C. Behrendt, P. Belser, J. Berg, S. Cazes, J. Martínez Franzoni, S. Gammage, M. Gerecke, D. Grimshaw, S. Hayter, M. Hengge, I. ['Yan'] Islam, C. Kuptsch, J. Ramón de Laiglesia, S. Lee, M. Luebker, J.C. Messenger, U. Rani, N. Ray, G. Reinecke, D. Sánchez-Ancochea, J. WoodallTrade Review'A de?ning feature of recent decades has been the rise in income inequality within many, but certainly not all, countries, and perhaps most spectacularly in the US and UK. The reigning explanation remains the orthodox story that it's all about supply and demand. . . . A powerful and welcome antidote, the essays in this ?ne book make the case that strong institutions are not only 'the building blocks of just societies', but can be, if well-designed, fully consistent with high employment and dynamic economies.' --David R. Howell, New School for Public Engagement, US'The worrying trend of growing inequality was the major theme of Davos in January 2014. In this well-researched and argued volume, Janine Berg and her colleagues show convincingly how neglect for distributional concerns and equitable growth policies in macroeconomic policies and labour market policies led to this worrying trend, why a refocusing on distributional issues and equitable growth policies is urgently needed and what needs to be done to achieve that. A must-read for concerned politicians, industrialists, trade unions and researchers.' --Rolph van der Hoeven, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague, the Netherlands'To sum up, this book provides wide-ranging coverage of macroeconomic, labour market and social protection policies that, taken together, can contribute to the formulation of balanced and equitable social and economic development. A particularly inspiring contribution for policy-makers and for the social partners is the emphasis on analysing the outcomes, limits and potential for improvement of policies in terms of addressing inequality and poverty which benefit society and economy as a whole.' --TransferTable of ContentsContents: Preface James K. Galbraith 1. Labour Market Institutions: The Building Blocks of Just Societies Janine Berg PART I MACROECONOMIC POLICIES, DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY 2. Economic Development and Inequality: Revisiting the Kuznets Curve Sangheon Lee, Megan Gerecke 3. Renewing the Full Employment Compact: Issues, Evidence and Policy Implications Iyanatul Islam, Martina Hengge PART II INCOME FROM WORK 4. Unions and Collective Bargaining Susan Hayter 5. Minimum Wages and Inequality Patrick Belser, Uma Rani 6. Temporary Contracts and Wage Inequality Sandrine Cazes and Juan Ramón De Laiglesia 7. The ‘Deconstruction’ of Part-Time Work Jon C. Messenger and Nikhil Ray PART III SOCIAL TRANSFERS AND INCOME REDISTRIBUTION 8. Redistribution Policies Malte Luebker 9. Pensions and Other Social Security Income Transfers Christina Behrendt andJohn Woodall 10. Income Support for the Unemployed and the Poor Janine Berg 11. Public Social Services and Income Inequality Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sanchéz-Ancochea PART IV THE IMPACT OF LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS ON DIFFERENT GROUPS 12. Labour Market Institutions and Gender Equality Sarah Gammage 13. Inequalities and the Impact of Labour Market Institutions on Migrant Workers Christiane Kuptsch 14. Labour Market Inequality Between Youths and Adults: A Special Case? Gerhard Reinecke and Damian Grimshaw Index

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Book SynopsisProviding a thorough overview of the political nature of, and dynamics between, the worlds of work, labour and employment, this timely Handbook draws together an interdisciplinary range of top contributors to explore the interdependent relationship between politics and labour, work and employment. Chapters provide a wide range of differing theoretical approaches with which to explore the legal, economic and socio-political aspects of labour, work and employment in pre-capitalist, capitalist and post-capitalist societies. The Handbook explores the purpose, roles, rights and powers of employers and management, workers and unions, states and governments in the age of globalised neo-liberalism. Different non-standard and non-renumerated types of work are examined with their counterparts, offering a thorough insight into the modern economy with a key focus on migration, gender, race and community. An essential reference for political economists as well as business and management scholars, this comprehensive Handbook provides an important analysis of the interconnectedness of politics and labour, work and employment. This will also be a useful read for policy makers looking for broad insights to the ways in which policies can impact labour, work and employment.Trade Review'Many of the contributors to this book point out how daunted they felt when they began their chapters. There is no argument that the authors had their work cut out, but they triumphantly achieve the ambitious goals they were set. This is an extremely useful book which features authoritative overviews of complex, and potentially baffling, subjects and guides readers through the latest evidence and developments in a wide range of theoretical traditions. This evidence is drawn from across the world's largest economies and space is made for some original research. Chapters draw on a variety of disciplinary resources to illuminate complex issues at the heart of current research and scholarship.' --Ralph Fevre, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The politics of labour, work and employment Gregor Gall PART I Foundations for Understanding the Politics of Labour, Work and Employment 2. A theoretical framework for labour, work, and employment research Bruce E. Kaufman 3. Pre- and post-capitalist labour, work and employment Neil Davidson 4. Labour, work and employment in the age of globalised neo-liberalism Jason Heyes and Thomas Hastings 5. The neo-liberal state and the regulation of class relations Chris Howell 6. Different types of societal regulation – coordinated market economy, social democracy, aspiration of worker control Greg Patmore 7. The politics and diversity of worker representation: the increasing fluidity and challenge of representation Miguel Martínez Lucio and Stephen Mustchin 8. Employers and their representatives: discretion, power, markets, and managers in the transformation of twenty first century work Gerald Friedman 9. Juridification in industrial relations Alan Bogg 10. The moral economy: flexible employment and layers of disconnection Sharon C. Bolton and Knut Laaser PART II Aspects of the Politics of Labour, Work and Employment 11. Managing labour and the labour process Bill Harley 12. Who manages the managers? Graham Sewell 13. Beyond the workplace: how civil society organisations attempt to exercise regulatory influence over work and employment Steve Williams and Brian Abbott 14. Types of work and labour Rachel Lara Cohen 15. Non-standard work and non-standard workers Vicki Smith and Brian Halpin 16. Non-remunerated work Colin C Williams 17. Skills and the social value of work Patricia Findlay 18. The expansion of the labour market and the politics of migration Gabriella Alberti 19. Gender segregation and labour market institutions Siobhan Austen, Therese Jefferson and Linley Lord 20. Labour market, work and employment segregation by race Steve Jefferys 21. Training and development – whose interests are being served? Mark Stuart 22. Kinship and community networks Robert MacKenzie, Zyama Ciupijus and Chris Forde Index

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Book SynopsisIn the neoliberal world, rising individualism has frequently been linked to rising inequality. Drawing on social theory, philosophy, history, institutional research and a wealth of contemporary empirical data, this innovative book analyzes the tangled relationship between individualism and inequality and explores the possibilities of rediscovering individualism's revolutionary potential.Ralph Fevre demonstrates that a belief in individual self-determination powered the development of human rights and inspired social movements from anti-slavery to socialism, feminism and anti-racism. At the same time, every attempt to embed individualism in systems of education and employment has eventually led to increased social inequality. The book discusses influential thinkers, from Adam Smith to Herbert Spencer and John Dewey, as well as the persistence of discrimination despite equality laws, management and the transformation of individualism, individualism in work and mental illness, work insecurity and intensification. This multi-disciplinary book will be essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, economics, philosophy, political science, management science and public policy studies, among other subjects. It will also be of use to policymakers and those who want to know how the culture and politics of the neoliberal world are unfolding.Trade Review'With the publication of Individualism and Inequality, Ralph Fevre establishes himself as one of today's most important figures in social theory and economic and cultural sociology. Building on his past work, his newest book skillfully brings together social theory, history, political philosophy, public policy and normative inquiry to tell a bold, new story about the rise of neoliberalism in the US and in the UK. Fevre produces nuanced genealogies of various forms of individualism and convincingly argues that the rise of neoliberalism is directly connected to the eclipse of sentimental individualism by cognitive individualism. In spite of the formidable social problems, including income inequality, that Fevre's account vividly depicts, he concludes his book with a ray of hope for a social movement that could bring the revitalization of sentimental individualism.' --Mark S. Cladis, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of the Humanities, Brown University'Suitors would be wrong to see this book as just another study of modern-day inequality. It offers far more insight than other books on this topic. Broadly, it is about two related trends: the decline of belief in human qualities and human potential expressed through forms of collective identity and the expansion of rationalisation and scientific knowledge into the domains previously occupied by belief (in education for example). Fevre describes this as the shift from sentimental individualism to cognitive individualism, tracing the origins of the former back to Thomas Paine and Adam Smith and the latter to Herbert Spencer among others. But there is far more to his analysis than this. With the rise of the narratives of globalisation and neoliberalism, Fevre shows how our own sense of self and agency has narrowed from aspirations for social change to anticipation of self-actualisation in the workplace. He describes how employers have embraced neoliberal ideals and increasingly take on responsibility for the welfare and self-development of employees, but then fail to live up to the increased expectations. Drawing on empirical studies, Fevre documents the psychological and other impacts on workers as the neoliberal workplace fails to provide them with the self-determination and self-actualisation it promises. It is concerning to learn how much the 'cognitive individual' defers to institutions and organisations to act on their own behalf rather than taking matters into their own hands. Fevre wisely encourages us to look for opportunities to rekindle moral meaning by reviving belief in human qualities rather than in the discourse of neoliberalism.' --Alex Standish, University College London/Institute of Education, UK'This is a wonderful holdall of an interdisciplinary book. We could call its content history, sociology, political economy, economic geography, economics, and social policy: and it is packed full of fascinating detail.' --Citizens IncomeTable of ContentsContents: 1. Neoliberalism Takes Over 2. Anti-slavery and the Secret of Human Rights 3. Adam Smith and American Individualism 4. Inequality, Welfare and the Cultivation of Character 5. American Ideology: Millennium and Utopia 6. Classes and Evolution 7. Sowing the Seeds of Neoliberalism 8. Education, Individualism and Inequality 9. An Introduction to People Management 10. From ‘Stupid’ to ‘Self-actualizing’ Workers 11. The Neoliberal Settlement 12. The Apotheosis of Individualism at Work 13. The Hidden Injuries of Cognitive Individualism 14. Insecurity, Intensification and Subordination 15. The Future of Work and Politics Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together two leading researchers in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of the shadow economy from a global perspective. Reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of measuring the informal sector, the authors evaluate its size and key determinants across the world. Williams and Schneider clearly establish the persistence and prevalence of the shadow economy, analysing the narrowness of existing policy approaches and explaining how these fail to address the key factors for its existence and may even exacerbate the problem.Proposing an alternative way forward, the authors argue that little headway will ever be made in reducing the shadow economy until there are changes not only to the character of formal institutions but also informal institutions (the values, beliefs and norms of citizens) through the introduction of macro-level structural changes.This timely, cutting-edge review of the global shadow economy and how it can be measured and tackled is an invaluable resource for postgraduate students, researchers and policy-makers, particularly those with a interest in tax evasion and informal labour.Trade Review'Williams and Schneider, two of the most respected colleagues in this field have pulled off a fascinating book. This is a resource, which will genuinely benefit a range of actors interested in the informal economy from governments, taxation authorities, trading standards to students of the sociology of work and enterprise. Brilliant.' --Gerard McElwee, University of Huddersfield, UK'Tax evasion and the various types of deviant behaviour that lead to unproductive entrepreneurship outcomes have long been considered harmful to economies around the world. In this light, this book, written by two leading scholars in the field, is undoubtedly a considerable contribution to the debate, especially when it comes to assessing the size of the shadow economy in various regions of the world and providing valuable policy suggestions.' --Arnis Sauka, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, LatviaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction PART I MEASUREMENT METHODS 2. Measuring the Shadow Economy: A Review of Indirect Methods 3. Measuring the Shadow Labour Force: A Review of Direct Survey Methods PART II THE SHADOW ECONOMY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 4. The Shadow Economy in Developing and Transition Economies 5. The Shadow Economy in Developed Countries PART III THE SHADOW LABOUR FORCE IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 6. The Shadow Labour Force in Developing and Transition Economies 7. The Shadow Labour Force in Developed Countries PART IV TACKLING THE SHADOW ECONOMY AND SHADOW LABOUR FORCE 8. Current Policy Approaches 9. A Way Forward 10. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis essential research review discusses the most important articles on executive compensation published in the twenty-first century. Beginning with an overview of executive compensation, this comprehensive review includes analyses of the growth and magnitude of executive compensation, its relationship with corporate governance, pay and performance, managing assets, and managing liabilities. Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Robert W. Kolb PART I AN OVERVIEW OF EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION 1. Steven N. Kaplan (2013), ‘CEO Pay and Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Perceptions, Facts, and Challenges’, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 25 (2), Spring, 8–25 2. John E. Core, Wayne R. Guay and David F. Larcker (2003), ‘Executive Equity Compensation and Incentives: A Survey’, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, 9 (1), April, 27–50 3. Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy (2003), ‘The Trouble With Stock Options’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 17 (3), Summer, 49–70 4. Arantxa Jarque (2008), ‘CEO Compensation: Trends, Market Changes, and Regulation’, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, 94 (3), Summer, 265–300 5. Carola Frydman and Dirk Jenter (2010), ‘CEO Compensation’, Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2 (1), December, 75–102 [28] 6. Michael Faulkender, Dalida Kadyrzhanova, N. Prabhala and Lemma Senbet (2010), ‘Executive Compensation: An Overview of Research on Corporate Practices and Proposed Reforms’, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 22 (1), Winter, 107–18 PART II THE GROWTH AND MAGNITUDE OF EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION 7. Lucian Bebchuk and Yaniv Grinstein (2005), ‘The Growth of Executive Pay’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 21 (2), Summer, 283–303 8. Xavier Gabaix and Augustin Landier (2008), ‘Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123 (1), February, 49–100 9. Carola Frydman and Raven E. Saks (2010), ‘Executive Compensation: A New View from a Long-Term Perspective, 1936–2005’, Review of Financial Studies, 23 (5), May, 2099–138 10. Richard A. Lord and Yoshie Saito (2010), ‘Trends in CEO Compensation and Equity Holdings for S&P 1500 Firms: 1994–2007’, Journal of Applied Finance, 20 (2), 40–56 11. Martin J. Conyon, John E. Core and Wayne R. Guay (2011), ‘Are U.S. CEOs Paid More Than U.K. CEOs? Inferences from Risk-adjusted Pay’, Review of Financial Studies, 24 (2), February, 402–38 12. Nuno Fernandes, Miguel A. Ferreira, Pedro Matos and Kevin J. Murphy (2013), ‘Are U.S. CEOs Paid More? New International Evidence’, Review of Financial Studies, 26 (2), February, 323–67 13. Xavier Gabaix, Augustin Landier and Julien Sauvagnat (2014), ‘CEO Pay and Firm Size: An Update After the Crisis’, Economic Journal, 124 (574), February, F40–F59 PART III THE STRUCTURE OF EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION 14. Eli Ofek and David Yermack (2000), ‘Taking Stock: Equity-Based Compensation and the Evolution of Managerial Ownership’, Journal of Finance, LV (3), June, 1367–84 15. Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy (2000), ‘Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options’, American Economic Review, 90 (2), May, 209–14 16. Anil Arya and Brian Mittendorf (2005), ‘Offering Stock Options to Gauge Managerial Talent’, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 40 (1–3), December, 189–210 17. Bo Becker (2006), ‘Wealth and Executive Compensation’, Journal of Finance, LXI (1), February, 379–97 18. Jayant R. Kale, Ebru Reis and Anand Venkateswaran (2010), ‘Promotion Incentives and Corporate Performance: Is There a Bright Side to “Overpaying” the CEO?’, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 22 (1), Winter, 119–28 19. Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Todd Milbourn, Fenghua Song and Anjan V. Thakor (2014), ‘Duration of Executive Compensation’, Journal of Finance, LXIX (6), December, 2777–817 20. Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson, Jr. (2005), ‘Executive Pensions’, Journal of Corporation Law, 30 (4), 823–55 PART IV ARE HIGHLY PAID CEOS THE WINNERS OF A WAGE TOURNAMENT? 21. Lucian A. Bebchuk, K.J. Martijn Cremers and Urs C. Peyer (2011), ‘The CEO Pay Slice’, Journal of Financial Economics, 102 (1), October, 199–221 22. Zhihong Chen, Yuan Huang and K.C. John Wei (2005), ‘Executive Pay Disparity and the Cost of Equity Capital’, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 48 (3), June, 849–85 23. Omesh Kini and Ryan Williams (2012), ‘Tournament Incentives, Firm Risk, and Corporate Policies’, Journal of Financial Economics, 103 (2), February, 350–76 24. Steven N. Kaplan and Joshua Rauh (2013), ‘It's the Market: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27 (3), Summer, 35–55 25. Olubunmi Faleye, Ebru Reis and Anand Venkateswaran (2013), ‘The Determinants and Effects of CEO-Employee Pay Ratios’, Journal of Banking and Finance, 37 (8), August, 3258–72 PART V EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 26. Kevin J. Murphy (2002), ‘Explaining Executive Compensation: Managerial Power versus the Perceived Cost of Stock Options’, University of Chicago Law Review, 69 (3), Summer, 847–69 27. Lucian Arye Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried (2003), ‘Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 17 (3), Summer, 71–92 28. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan (2000), ‘Agents With and Without Principals’, American Economic Review, 90 (2), May, 203–8 29. Jay C. Hartzell and Laura T. Starks (2003), ‘Institutional Investors and Executive Compensation’, Journal of Finance, LVIII (6), December, 2351–74 30. Vidhi Chhaochharia and Yaniv Grinstein (2009), ‘CEO Compensation and Board Structure’, Journal of Finance, LXIV (1), February, 231–61 31. Henrik Cronqvist and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach (2013), ‘CEO Contract Design: How do Strong Principals Do It?’, Journal of Financial Economics, 108 (3), June, 659–74 32. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan (2003), ‘Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences’, Journal of Political Economy, 111 (5), October, 1043–75 33. Martin J. Conyon (2014), ‘Executive Compensation and Board Governance in US Firms’, Economic Journal, 124 (574), February, F60–F89 Volume II Acknowledgements Introduction An Introduction by the editor appears in Volume I PART I PAY AND PERFORMANCE: ARE THEY RELATED? 1. Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried (2005), ‘Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues’, Journal of Corporation Law, 30 (4), Summer, 647–73 2. John E. Core, Wayne R. Guay and Randall S. Thomas (2005), ‘Is U.S. CEO Compensation Inefficient Pay Without Performance?’, Michigan Law Review, 103, May, 1142–85 3. Adair Morse, Vikram Nanda and Amit Seru (2011), ‘Are Incentive Contracts Rigged by Powerful CEOs?’, Journal of Finance, LXVI (5), October, 1779–821 4. Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix (2009), ‘Is CEO Pay Really Inefficient? A Survey of New Optimal Contracting Theories’, European Financial Management, 15 (3), June, 486–96 PART II: COMPENSATION AND RISK-TAKING: INCENTIVIZING AND RESTRAINING 5. Richard T. Holden (2005), ‘The Original Management Incentive Schemes’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19 (4), Fall, 135–44 6. Patrick Bolton, Hamid Mehran and Joel Shapiro (2010), ‘Executive Compensation and Risk Taking’, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Staff Report No. 456, June, i, 1–43 7. Jennifer N. Carpenter (2000), ‘Does Option Compensation Increase Managerial Risk Appetite?’, Journal of Finance, LV (5), October, 2311–31 8. Stephen A. Ross (2004), ‘Compensation, Incentives, and the Duality of Risk Aversion and Riskiness’, Journal of Finance, LIX (1), February, 207–25 9. Jeffrey L. Coles, Naveen D. Daniel and Lalitha Naveen (2006), ‘Managerial Incentives and Risk–Taking’, Journal of Financial Economics, 79 (2), February, 431–68 10. John McCormack and Judy Weiker (2010), ‘Rethinking “Strength of Incentives” for Executives of Financial Institutions’, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 22 (3), Summer, 65–72 11. Zhiyong Dong, Cong Wang and Fei Xie (2010), ‘Do Executive Stock Options Induce Excessive Risk Taking?’, Journal of Banking and Finance, 34 (10), October, 2518–29 12. Neil Brisley (2006), ‘Executive Stock Options: Early Exercise Provisions and Risk‑taking Incentives’, Journal of Finance, LXI (5), October, 2487–509 13. George J. Benston and Jocelyn D. Evan (2006), ‘Performance Compensation Contracts and CEOs' Incentive to Shift Risk to Debtholders: An Empirical Analysis’, Journal of Economics and Finance, 30 (1), Spring, 70–92 14. Cory A. Cassell, Shawn X. Huang, Juan Manuel Sanchez and Michael D. Stuart (2012) , ‘Seeking Safety: The Relation Between CEO Inside Debt Holding and the Riskiness of Firm Investment and Financial Policies’, Journal of Financial Economics, 103 (3), March, 588–610 15. Yixin Liu, David C. Mauer and Yilei Zhang (2014), ‘Firm Cash Holdings and CEO Inside Debt’, Journal of Banking and Finance, 42, May, 83–100 16. Divya Anantharaman, Vivian W. Fang and Guojin Gong (2014), ‘Inside Debt and the Design of Corporate Debt Contracts’, Management Science, 60 (5), May, 1260–80 PART III: EXECUTIVE INCENTIVES AND FIRM MANAGEMENT 17. Efraim Benmelech, Eugene Kandel and Pietro Veronesi (2010), ‘Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)incentives’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (4), November, 1769–820 18. Patrick Bolton, José Scheinkman and Wei Xiong (2006), ‘Executive Compensation and Short-Termist Behaviour in Speculative Markets’, Review of Economic Studies, 73 (3), July, 577–610 19. Henrik Cronqvist, Fredrik Heyman, Mattias Nilsson, Helena Svaleryd and Jonas Vlachos (2008), ‘Do Entrenched Managers Pay Their Workers More?’, Journal of Finance, LXIV (1), February, 309–39 20. Ronald W. Masulis and Syed Walid Reza (2014), ‘Agency Problems of Corporate Philanthropy’, Review of Financial Studies, 28 (2), February, 592–636 A: Managing Assets 21. Tom Nohel and Steven Todd (2004), ‘Stock Options and Managerial Incentives to Invest’, Journal of Derivatives Accounting, 1 (1), March, 29–46 22. Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate (2005), ‘CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment’, Journal of Finance, LX (6), December, 2661–700 23. Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate (2008), ‘Who Makes Acquisitions? CEO Overconfidence and the Market’s Reaction’, Journal of Financial Economics, 89 (1), July, 20–43 24. Jie Cai and Anand M. Vijh (2007), ‘Incentive Effects of Stock and Option Holdings of Target and Acquirer CEOs’, Journal of Finance, LXII (4), August, 1891–933 25. Eliezer M. Fich, Jie Cai and Anh L. Tran (2011), ‘Stock Option Grants to Target CEOs During Private Merger Negotiations’, Journal of Financial Economics, 101 (2), May, 413–30 26. Yixin Liu and David C. Mauer (2011), ‘Corporate Cash Holdings and CEO Compensation Incentives’, Journal of Financial Economics, 102 (1), October, 183–98 B: Managing Liabilities 27. Hernan Ortiz‑Molina (2006), ‘Top Management Incentives and the Pricing of Corporate Public Debt’, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 41 (2), June, 317–40 28. Katharina Lewellen (2006), ‘Financing Decisions When Managers Are Risk Averse’, Journal of Financial Economics, 82 (3), December, 551–89 29. Hernan Ortiz‑Molina (2007), ‘Executive Compensation and Capital Structure: The Effects of Convertible Debt and Straight Debt on CEO Pay’, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 43 (1), March, 69–93 30. Paul Brockman, Xiumin Martin and Emre Unlu (2010), ‘Executive Compensation and the Maturity Structure of Corporate Debt’, Journal of Finance, LXV (3), June, 1123–61 31. Sudheer Chava, Praveen Kumar and Arthur Warga (2010), ‘Managerial Agency and Bond Covenants’, Review of Financial Studies, 23 (3), March, 1120–48 Volume III Acknowledgements Introduction An introduction by the editor appears in Volume I PART I MANAGERIAL INCENTIVES, INSIDE INFORMATION, AND EARNINGS A: Exploiting Inside Information 1. J. Carr Bettis, John M. Bizjak and Michael L. Lemmon (2005), ‘Exercise Behavior, Valuation, and the Incentive Effects of Employee Stock Options’, Journal of Financial Economics, 76 (2), May, 445–70 2. David Aboody, John Hughes, Jing Liu and Wei Su (2008), ‘Are Executive Stock Option Exercises Driven by Private Information?’, Review of Accounting Studies, 13 (4), December, 551–70 3. Robert Brooks, Don M. Chance and Brandon Cline (2012), ‘Private Information and the Exercise of Executive Stock Options’, Financial Management, 41 (3), Fall, 733–64 4. Jennifer N. Carpenter, Richard Stanton and Nancy Wallace (2010), ‘Optimal Exercise of Executive Stock Options and Implications for Firm Cost’, Journal of Financial Economics, 98 (2), November, 315–37 B: Manipulating Earnings and Disclosure for Personal Profit 5. Daniel Bergstresser and Thomas Philippon (2006), ‘CEO Incentives and Earnings Management’, Journal of Financial Economics, 80 (3), June, 511–29 6. Keith J. Crocker and Joel Slemrod (2007), ‘The Economics of Earnings Manipulation and Managerial Compensation’, RAND Journal of Economics, 38 (3), Autumn, 698–713 7. Christopher S. Armstrong, Alan D. Jagolinzer and David F. Larcker (2010), ‘Chief Executive Officer Equity Incentives and Accounting Irregularities’, Journal of Accounting Research, 48 (2), May, 225–71 8. Lin Peng and Ailsa Röell (2014), ‘Managerial Incentives and Stock Price Manipulation’, Journal of Finance, LXIX (2), April, 487–526 PART II OPTION DATING GAME 9. Randall A. Heron and Erik Lie (2007), ‘Does Backdating Explain the Stock Price Pattern Around Executive Stock Option Grants?’, Journal of Financial Economics, 83 (2), February, 271–95 10. M.P. Narayanan and H. Nejat Seyhun (2008), ‘The Dating Game: Do Managers Designate Option Grant Dates to Increase their Compensation?’, Review of Financial Studies, 21 (5), September, 1907–45 11. M.P. Narayanan, Cindy A. Schipani and H. Nejat Seyhun (2007), ‘The Economic Impact of Backdating of Executive Stock Options’, Michigan Law Review, 105 (8), June, 1597–641 12. Jesse M. Fried (2008), ‘Option Backdating and Its Implications’, Washington and Lee Law Review, 65, 853–86 PART III OPTION VALUATION: OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE 13. Don M. Chance and Tung-Hsiao Yang (2005), ‘The Utility-Based Valuation and Cost of Executive Stock Options in a Binomial Framework: Issues and Methodologies’, Journal of Derivatives Accounting, 2 (2), September, 165–88 14. Jie Cai and Anand M. Vijh (2005), ‘Executive Stock and Option Valuation in a Two State-Variable Framework’, Journal of Derivatives, Spring, 9–27 15. Jonathan E. Ingersoll, Jr. (2006), ‘The Subjective and Objective Evaluation of Incentive Stock Options’, Journal of Business, 79 (2), 453–87 16. Ronnie Sircar and Wei Xiong (2007), ‘A General Framework for Evaluating Executive Stock Options’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 31 (7), July, 2317–49 17. Jakša Cvitanić, Zvi Wiener and Fernando Zapatero (2008), ‘Analytic Pricing of Employee Stock Options’, Review of Financial Studies, 21 (2), April, 683–724 18. Jonathan E. Ingersoll, Jr. (2006), ‘Valuing Reload Options’, Review of Derivatives Research, 9 (1), January, 67–105 19. L.C.G. Rogers and José Scheinkman (2007), ‘Optimal Exercise of Executive Stock Options’, Finance and Stochastics, 11 (3), July, 357–72 20. Frank D. Hodge, Shiva Rajgopal and Terry Shevlin (2009), ‘Do Managers Value Stock Options and Restricted Stock Consisted with Economic Theory?’, Contemporary Accounting Research, 26 (3), Fall, 899–932

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Book SynopsisThis book is an exploration of arguments about the economic and social effects of the regulation of labour, and whether it is likely to be helpful or harmful to development. Authored by contributors from a variety of fields, primarily legal as well as development studies, economics and regulatory studies, the book presents both empirical and theoretical analyses of the issues. With authors from several continents, this collection is unique in that it focuses on labour regulation in poor and middle-income countries rather than industrialized ones, therefore making it a significant contribution to the field.In large part, the authors conclude that regulation of labour can play a positive role in promoting social and economic development, especially over time. Effective regulation has the potential to promote democratic engagement at work and beyond. However its impact is dependent on how much its design grapples with the particular arrangements of work occurring within different industries, reflecting the nature of development and social relations within that country. Contributors emphasize that regulation needs to be adapted to the challenges presented by non-standard employment relations, changes in the structure of work and the rise of global value chains. This collection's exploration of labour regulation in developing countries will be of interest to labour law scholars and teachers, to policy-makers in the field of labour regulation - especially in the global South - as well as to technical advisers and those engaged in the practice of industrial relations.Contributors include: G. Bensusán, D. Cheong, S. Deakin, F. Ebert, C. Fenwick, S. Godfrey, K. Kolben, S. Marshall, K. Sankaran, M. von BroembsenIn Association with the International Labour OrganizationTrade Review'Marshall and Fenwick have sculpted a rich body of essays by brilliant scholars from developed and developing countries. Labour Regulation and Development takes the reader on innovative angles of approach to poverty, inequality, informality, exclusion, gender and ethnic discrimination, supply-chain dynamics, trade and investment flows, regulatory enforcement capacity and other challenges in the global economy. This volume confronts head-on debates about labour market regulation and whether it helps or hurts economic development. Their approaches differ, but contributors here make a powerful case for strong regulatory institutions that promote economic development while advancing social justice.' --Lance Compa, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsContents: 1. Labour Law and Development: Characteristics and Challenges Shelley Marshall and Colin Fenwick 2. Labour Law and Development in the Long Run Simon Deakin 3. Labour Regulation, Capabilities, and Democracy Kevin Kolben 4. Labour Law and Trade Policy: What Implications for Economic and Human Development? David Cheong and Franz Christian Ebert 5. Labour Law and Development Viewed From Below: What Do Case Studies of the Clothing Sectors in South Africa and Lesotho Tell Us? Marlese von Broembsen and Shane Godfrey 6. Labour Law, Inclusive Development and Equality in Latin America Graciela Bensusán 7. Labour Law in South Asia: A Right to Development Perspective Kamala Sankaran 8. The ILO and National Labour Law reform: Six Case Studies Colin Fenwick 9. Revitalising Labour Market Regulation for the Economic South: New Forms and Tools Shelley Marshall Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the modern economics of education literature, bringing together a series of original contributions by globally renowned experts in their fields. Covering a wide variety of topics, each chapter assesses the most recent research with an emphasis on skills, evaluation and data analytics. Beginning with an analysis of the economic returns to education, the Handbook proceeds to examine educational production functions, various funding models, and the labour market for educators. The Handbook goes beyond these traditional concerns of the economics of education, by revealing how the methods of economics can be applied in the context of education to open up the 'black box' of production in this sector. Detailed analysis and evaluation of educational production offers practical solutions and reveals considerable new insight about the specific interventions that can be made to enhance the value of schooling. Significant new lines of research are also suggested. This Handbook should be read by economists, policy-makers and practitioners in the field of education. Academics in the areas of the economics of education, labour economics and educational policy will also find this Handbook invaluable for current and further research.Contributors include: T. Agasisti, R. Bachan, N. Barr, C.R. Belfield, A.J. Bowers, M. Bray, J. Britton, S.J. Cabus, I. Cornelisz, K. De Witte, A. Di Liberto, L. Fengliang, J. Ghysels, C. Haelermans, P. Iatarola, G. Johnes, J. Johnes, H.M. Levin, J. Liu, L. López-Torres, S. McIntosh, A. McKnight, B. Reilly, F. Saltiel, D. Santin, M. Sarzosa, G. Sicilia, L. Stiefel, F. Tomini, S. Urzua, A. Vignoles, S. Vincent-LancrinTrade Review'This is a very exciting volume. Education is a vibrant, fast paced field in economics, with diverse areas of focus, but all with critical impact on real lives. The Editors have brought some of the world's best together to deliver a sharp focus on these latest developments, but with a critical eye on policy implications. The linking of current academic thinking to policy is a distinctive feature of this Handbook.' --Colm Harmon, The University of Sydney, Australia'This Handbook covers most of the topics ranging between equity in educational opportunities and efficiency in use of resources. Undoubtedly education represents an asset during working life, but a significant fraction of students are deprived from ownership, due to lack of adequate socio-emotional skills. Ensuring equal opportunities to every student may not be cost effective but it is policy relevant. Many contributions in the volume helps to appraise the relevance of these two poles.' --Daniele Checchi, University of Milan, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Human capital and Returns to Education Geraint Johnes, Jill Johnes and Laura López-Torres 2. Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Abilities Fernando Saltiel, Miguel Sarzosa and Sergio Urzúa 3. Why Do School Dropout Rates Vary (So Much) Across Countries? A Survey Sofie Josefina Cabus 4. Education and social mobility: Theory, evidence and policy challenges Abigail McKnight 5. Inequality and education: Education as a cure for disadvantage Kristof De Witte and Florian Tomini 6. Labour Market Polarisation and the Implications for Education Steven McIntosh 7. Evaluating Didactical Interventions in Primary and Secondary Education Carla Haelermans and Joris Ghysels 8. Understanding innovation in education: Where do we stand? Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin 9. Data Analytics and Decision Making in Education: Towards the Educational Data Scientist as a Key Actor in Schools and Higher Education Institutions Tommaso Agasisti and Alex J. Bowers 10. Impact Evaluation and Frontier Methods in Education: A step forward Daniel Santín and Gabriela Sicilia 11. Education production functions Jack Britton and Anna Vignoles 12. Student Achievement and Costs in Small Schools Patrice Iatarola and Leanna Stiefel 13. Theory versus Empirics: A Review of the International School Choice Literature Ilja Cornelisz 14. School management and student achievements Adriana Di Liberto 15. Cost-effectiveness and educational efficiency Henry M. Levin and Clive R. Belfield 16. Funding post-compulsory education Nicholas Barr 17. The economics of distance education Fengliang Li 18. Understanding Shadow Education from the Perspective of Economics of Education Junyan Liu and Mark Bray 19. Pay in Education: Vice Chancellor and Rector Remuneration Ray Bachan and Barry Reilly Index

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Book SynopsisWhile recent studies have highlighted the phenomenon and risks of increased inequalities between the top and the bottom of society, little research has so far been carried out on trends relating to the median income range that generally represents the middle class. This volume examines the following questions: what are the main transformations in the world of work over the last 20 years in terms of the labour market, social dialogue and conditions of work, wages and incomes that may have affected the middle class? How has the middle class been shaped by the financial and economic crisis? What are the long-term trends for the middle class in Europe?This volume also investigates the potential risks and effects of the reshuffling, or even weakening, of the middle class. On the social side, it explores the ramifications of further retrenchment of the European Social Model, which to a great extent has traditionally been funded by the middle class. On the economic side, the book investigates whether this process - especially from the perspective of consumption and human capital - is endangering the long-term sustainability of the current economic model. While presenting evidence of a definite erosion of the middle class, this book assesses the specific situation in each individual EU Member State on the basis of detailed statistics and case studies of professional categories that traditionally represent the middle class.This book issues a timely warning about the latest trends and future of the middle class in Europe. On this basis, it presents policy considerations and options that will be useful to policy-makers for ensuring the future of the middle class in Europe. Scholars and researchers of European studies and social policy, especially from its sustainability perspective, will find the volume an invaluable reference.Contributors include: J.I. Antón, D. Anxo, T. Barbieri, G. Bosch, P. Courtioux, C. Erhel, K. Espenberg, A. Figueiredo, H. Figueiredo, S. Giakoumatos, P. González, D. Grimshaw, T. Kalina, M. Karamessini, S. Kuypers, B. Maître, N. Maitre, I. Marx, J. Masso, I. Mierina, R. Muñoz-de-Bustillo Llorente, B. Nolan, A. Rafferty, W. Salverda, L.D. Santos, A. Simonazzi, I.G. Tóth, D. Vaughan-Whitehead, R. Vazquez-AlvarezTable of ContentsContents: 1. Is The World of Work Behind Middle Class Reshuffling? Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, Rosalie Vazquez-Alvarez and Nicolas Maitre 2. Is The World of Work Stimulating Middle Class Growth in the Baltic States? Jaan Masso, Inta Mierina and Kerly Espenberg 3. Social Concertation and Middle Class Stability in Belgium Sarah Kuypers and Ive Marx 4. Transformation in the World of Work and the Middle Class: The French Experience Pierre Courtioux and Christine Erhel 5. The Erosion of the German Middle Class: The End of the ‘Levelled-Out, Middle Class Society’? Gerhard Bosch and Thorsten Kalina 6. The Greek Middle Classes Facing an Uncertain Future Maria Karamessini and Stefanos Giakoumatos 7. Is Hungary Still in Search of its Middle Class? István György Tóth 8. Middle Incomes in Boom and Bust: The Irish Experience Bertrand Maître and Brian Nolan 9. The Middle Class in Italy: Reshuffling, Erosion, Polarization Annamaria Simonazzi and Teresa Barbieri 10. Stagnating Incomes and the Middle Class in the Netherlands: Running to Stand Still? Wiemer Salverda 11. Still Holding On? Inequality, Labour Market and Middle Income Groups in Portugal Pilar GonzáLez, AntóNio Figueiredo, Hugo Figueiredo and Luis Delfim Santos 12. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Changes in the World of Work and the Middle Class in Spain Rafael Muñoz-De-Bustillo and José-Ignacio Antón 13. The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Middle Class? Dominique Anxo 14. How Have Middle-Income Households Fared in Unequal Britain? A Focus on Work and Employment Trends Damian Grimshaw and Anthony Rafferty Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines personnel economics within the context of the professional sport industry. Sport is an effective industry in which to empirically test theories of personnel economics, primarily because the employer-employee relationship in sport is much more visible and transparent than in almost any other industry. Researchers benefit from having data on a host of variables pertaining to individual employees (i.e. players), such as their age, race, national origin, and experience. Researchers also have data on each employee's performance, on their salary, and on who their co-workers (teammates) and managers (coaches) are.The chapters are organized around the core functional areas of personnel economics and cover all aspects of the employment relationship in sport - from recruiting and selection, to pay and performance, to work team design. Each chapter contains a thorough literature review that provides the reader with a sense of the breadth and depth of the work being done in the area, and with a sense as to how the literature can move forward, both in a sport and non-sport context. The book is suitable for an advanced undergraduate course right through to a PhD-level field-course in both management and economics. Academic researchers in the fields of sports economics, personnel economics, human resource management, strategic management and sport management will also find the book of interest.Contributors include: D. Berri, C. Deutscher, B. Frick, L.H. Kahane, N. Longley, J.G. Maxcy, J. Prinz, R. Simmons, D. WeimarTrade Review'For his Personnel Economics in Sports, Professor Longley collects a star lineup to bring the hot topic of personnel economics to bear on recruitment, the relationship between pay and performance, and management impacts. I've placed my copy right next to the rest of the important references in sports economics.' --Rodney Fort, University of Michigan, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. An introduction to personnel economics and its application to sport Neil Longley PART I RECRUITING AND HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT 2. The failed promise of the draft in the NFL and NBA David Berri 3. The golden generation: the personnel economics of youth recruitment in European professional soccer Joachim Prinz and Daniel Weimar PART II PAY, PERFORMANCE, AND INCENTIVES 4. Determining the drivers of player valuation and compensation in professional sport: traditional economic approaches and emerging advances Christian Deutscher 5. Multi–period contracts as risk management in professional sports Joel Maxcy PART III TEAMWORK, AND THE IMPACTS OF MANAGEMENT 6. Impacts of co-worker heterogeneity on team performance Robert Simmons 7. Pay dispersion and productivity in sports Leo Kahane 8. Magicians, scapegoats and firefighters: the peculiar role of head coaches in professional soccer Bernd Frick Index

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Book SynopsisLearning in labour markets is a key feature concerning how labour markets operate. This research reviews discusses classic and important recent contributions by leading scholars concerning how firms learn about worker abilities and other worker attributes. Topics covered include; theory of symmetric learning, evidence of symmetric learning and evidence from asymmetric learning. This research review will serve as a valuable resource for scholars, libraries, and graduate students.Trade Review‘Any scholar interested in career patterns of employees in organizations should consult this collection. It combines in one volume a comprehensive collection of seminal articles in economics that analyze the processes of learning about employees‘ talents and its implications for educational choices, promotion decisions and salary structures in firms. It demonstrates how powerful microeconomic analysis has become to help us develop a precise understanding of careers within and across organizations.’ -- Dirk Sliwka, University of Cologne, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Michael Waldman PART I CLASSICS 1. Michael Spence (1973), ‘Job Market Signaling’, 87 (3), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, 355–74 2. Boyan Jovanovic (1979), ‘Job Matching and the Theory of Turnover’, Journal of Political Economy, 87 (5), Part 1, October, 972–90 3. Eugene F. Fama (1980), ‘Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm’, Journal of Political Economy, 88 (2), April, 288–307 4. Michael Waldman (1984), ‘Job Assignments, Signaling and Efficiency’, Rand Journal of Economics, 15 (2), Summer, 255-67 5. Bruce C. Greenwald (1986), ‘Adverse Selection in the Labour Market’, Review of Economic Studies, 53 (3), July, 325-47 6. Bengt Holmstrom (1999), ‘Managerial Incentive Problems: A Dynamic Perspective’, Review of Economic Studies, 66 (1), January, 169-82 PART II EDUCATION 7. John G. Riley (1979), ‘Testing the Educational Screening Hypothesis,’ Journal of Political Economy, 87 (5), Part 2: Education and Income, October, S227–S252 8. Kevin Lang and David Kropp (1986), ‘Human Capital Versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 101 (3), August, 609–24 9. Thomas Hungerford and Gary Solon (1987), ‘Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 69 (1), February, 175–7 10. Kelly Bedard (2001),’Human Capital versus Signaling Models: University Access and High School Dropouts’, Journal of Political Economy, 109 (4), 749–75 11. Fabian Lange (2007), ‘The Speed of Employer Learning’, Journal of Labor Economics, 25 (1), 1–35 12. Peter Arcidiacono, Patrick Bayer and Aurel Hizmo (2010), ‘Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability,’ American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2 (4), October, 76–104 PART III THEORY OF SYMMETRIC LEARNING 13. Milton Harris and Bengt Holmstrom (1982), ‘A Theory of Wage Dynamics’, Review of Economic Studies, 49 (3), July, 315–33 14. Robert Gibbons and Michael Waldman (1999), ‘A Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114 (4), November, 1321–358 15. Jaime Ortega (2001), ‘Job Rotation as a Learning Mechanism’, Management Science, 47 (10), October, 1361–70 16. Edward P. Lazear (2004), ‘The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline’, Journal of Political Economy, 112 (1) Part 2, S141–S163 PART IV EVIDENCE ON SYMMETRIC LEARNING 17. Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy (1992), ‘Optimal Incentive Contracts in the Presence of Career Concerns: Theory and Evidence’, Journal of Political Economy, 100 (3), June, 468–505 18. Curtis J. Simon and John T. Warner (1992), ‘Matchmaker, Matchmaker: The Effect of Old Boy Networks on Job Match Quality, Earnings and Tenure’, Journal of Labor Economics, 10 (3), July, 306–30 19. Henry S. Farber and Robert Gibbons (1996), ‘Learning and Wage Dynamics’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111 (4), November, 1007–47 20. Joseph G. Altonji and Charles R. Pierret (2001), ‘Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116 (1), February, 313–50 21. Lisa B. Kahn and Fabian Lange (2014) ‘Employer Learning, Productivity, and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures’, Review of Economic Studies, 81, 1575–613 22. Amanda Pallais (2014), ‘Inefficient Hiring in Entry-Level Labor Markets’, American Economic Review, 104 (11), 3565–99 23. Jeanine Miklós-Thal and Hannes Ullrich (2016), ‘Career Prospects and Effort Incentives: Evidence from Professional Soccer’, Management Science, 62 (6), 1645–67 PART V THEORY OF ASYMMETRIC LEARNING 24. Paul Milgrom and Sharon Oster (1987), ‘Job Discrimination, Market Forces, and the Invisibility Hypothesis’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, CII (3), August, 453–76 25. James D. Montgomery (1991), ‘Social Networks and Labor-Market Outcomes: Toward an Economic Analysis’, American Economic Review, 81, (5), December, 1408–418 26. Dan Bernhardt (1995) ‘Strategic Promotion and Compensation’, Review of Economic Studies, 62 (2), April, 315–39 27. Chun Chang and Yijiang Wang (1996), ‘Human Capital Investment under Asymmetric Information: The Pigovian Conjecture Revisited ’, Journal of Labor Economics, 14 (3), July, 505–19 28. Ján Zábojník and Dan Bernhardt (2001), ‘Corporate Tournaments, Human Capital Acquisition, and the Firm Size-Wage Relation’, Review of Economic Studies, 68 (3), 693–716 29. Hideo Owan (2004), ‘Promotion, Turnover, Earnings, and Firm-Sponsored Training’, Journal of Labor Economics, 22 (4), October, 955–78 PART VI EVIDENCE FROM ASYMMETRIC LEARNING 30. Robert Gibbons and Lawrence F. Katz (1991), ‘Layoffs and Lemons’, Journal of Labor Economics, 9 (4), October, 351–80 31. Daron Acemoglu and Jorn -Steffen Pischke (1998) ‘Why do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113 (1), February, 79–119 32. Uta Schönberg (2007), ‘Testing for Asymmetric Employer Learning’, Journal of Labor Economics, 25 (4), October, 651–91 33. Joshua C. Pinkston (2009), ‘A Model of Asymmetric Employer Learning with Testable Implications’, Review of Economic Studies, 76 (1), January, 367–94 34. Jed DeVaro and Michael Waldman (2012), ‘The Signaling Role of Promotions: Further Theory and Empirical Evidence’, Journal of Labor Economics, 30 (1), January, 91–147 35. Lisa B. Kahn (2013), ‘Asymmetric Information Between Employers’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5 (4), October, 165–205 Index

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Book SynopsisWages are the main determinant of living standards for the vast majority of workers and families around the world. This manual describes a new methodology to measure what constitutes a decent but basic standard of living and how much workers need to earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable living wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages.The new, practical methodology in this manual draws on 10 years of research and experience to clearly explain each step in the estimation process, based on standards for a low cost nutritious diet, healthy housing, and all other needs including decent health care and children's education. It stresses transparency and the need for time and place specific living wage estimates, and is replete with examples from country studies that have put it to the test. The authors describe how living wages can be estimated in locations and countries where secondary data are limited and make new, practical recommendations on how to value in kind benefits as partial payment of a living wage.An essential tool for Researchers and NGOs interested in wages, poverty, living standards, and corporate social responsibility issues, this manual will also serve company professionals responsible for corporate social responsibility and human resources. It is also an excellent tool for Bank governments and unions, and international organizations such as the United Nations, UNDP, ILO and World Bank involved in setting minimum wages, poverty alleviation programs and trade policies.Trade Review‘The manual could serve as the basis for an applied masters course in Development Economics. It belongs on the shelf of every development practitioner, where it would sit confidently alongside classics like Gittinger’s (1982) Economic Analysis of Agricultural Projects.’ -- African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics‘Anker and Anker have delivered a substantial, practically-minded resource for helping to establish living wage standards in nations and regions across the world, and which should be of vital interest to all those interested and engaged in this battle as it continues to advance.’ -- British Journal of Industrial Relalions‘This book is a substantial achievement, and evidence of a research project with the potential to make a real difference to the world.’ -- Citizen’s Income Newsletter‘Overall, Living Wages around the World: Manual for Measurement looks set to become a well-thumbed reference guide for researchers, governments/policy analysts, international organisations, NGOs and community groups interested in a deeper understanding of living wage standards and policies. This book is likely to stoke a developing and important dialogue over what constitutes equitable, meaningful and relevant pay around the globe.’ -- Labour & IndustryTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Overview of the Anker Living Wage Methodology PART I COST OF A BASIC BUT DECENT LIFE FOR WORKER AND FAMILY 3. Model Diet for a Living Wage 4. Local Food Prices 5. Local Housing Standard for a Living Wage 6 Local Cost of Decent Housing for a Living Wage 7. Non-Food and Non-Housing Costs 8. Post Checks of Non-food Non-housing Costs: Introduction 9. Health Care Cost Rapid Assessment Post Check 10. Education Cost Rapid Assessment Post Check 11. Provision for Unexpected Events and Sustainability 12. Family Size for a Living Wage PART II ESTIMATING A LIVING WAGE 13. Number of Workers per Family 14. Take Home Pay Required and Taking Statutory Deductions into Account PART III PREVAILING WAGES AND GAPS TO A LIVING WAGE 15. Measuring Prevailing Wages to Compare to a Living Wage 16. In Kind Benefits as Partial Payment of a Living Wage 17. Living Wage in Context: Wage Ladder and Wage Trends PART IV: TYPICAL LIVING WAGE REPORT AND UPDATING A LIVING WAGE ESTIMATE 18. Suggested Outline of a Living Wage Report 19. Summary Tables to Include in a Living Wage Report 20. Updating a Living Wage Estimate References Index

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Book SynopsisWages are the main determinant of living standards for the vast majority of workers and families around the world. This manual describes a new methodology to measure what constitutes a decent but basic standard of living and how much workers need to earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable living wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages.The new, practical methodology in this manual draws on 10 years of research and experience to clearly explain each step in the estimation process, based on standards for a low cost nutritious diet, healthy housing, and all other needs including decent health care and children's education. It stresses transparency and the need for time and place specific living wage estimates, and is replete with examples from country studies that have put it to the test. The authors describe how living wages can be estimated in locations and countries where secondary data are limited and make new, practical recommendations on how to value in kind benefits as partial payment of a living wage.An essential tool for Researchers and NGOs interested in wages, poverty, living standards, and corporate social responsibility issues, this manual will also serve company professionals responsible for corporate social responsibility and human resources. It is also an excellent tool for Bank governments and unions, and international organizations such as the United Nations, UNDP, ILO and World Bank involved in setting minimum wages, poverty alleviation programs and trade policies.Trade Review‘The manual could serve as the basis for an applied masters course in Development Economics. It belongs on the shelf of every development practitioner, where it would sit confidently alongside classics like Gittinger’s (1982) Economic Analysis of Agricultural Projects.’ -- African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics‘Anker and Anker have delivered a substantial, practically-minded resource for helping to establish living wage standards in nations and regions across the world, and which should be of vital interest to all those interested and engaged in this battle as it continues to advance.’ -- British Journal of Industrial Relalions‘This book is a substantial achievement, and evidence of a research project with the potential to make a real difference to the world.’ -- Citizen’s Income Newsletter‘Overall, Living Wages around the World: Manual for Measurement looks set to become a well-thumbed reference guide for researchers, governments/policy analysts, international organisations, NGOs and community groups interested in a deeper understanding of living wage standards and policies. This book is likely to stoke a developing and important dialogue over what constitutes equitable, meaningful and relevant pay around the globe.’ -- Labour & IndustryTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Overview of the Anker Living Wage Methodology PART I COST OF A BASIC BUT DECENT LIFE FOR WORKER AND FAMILY 3. Model Diet for a Living Wage 4. Local Food Prices 5. Local Housing Standard for a Living Wage 6 Local Cost of Decent Housing for a Living Wage 7. Non-Food and Non-Housing Costs 8. Post Checks of Non-food Non-housing Costs: Introduction 9. Health Care Cost Rapid Assessment Post Check 10. Education Cost Rapid Assessment Post Check 11. Provision for Unexpected Events and Sustainability 12. Family Size for a Living Wage PART II ESTIMATING A LIVING WAGE 13. Number of Workers per Family 14. Take Home Pay Required and Taking Statutory Deductions into Account PART III PREVAILING WAGES AND GAPS TO A LIVING WAGE 15. Measuring Prevailing Wages to Compare to a Living Wage 16. In Kind Benefits as Partial Payment of a Living Wage 17. Living Wage in Context: Wage Ladder and Wage Trends PART IV: TYPICAL LIVING WAGE REPORT AND UPDATING A LIVING WAGE ESTIMATE 18. Suggested Outline of a Living Wage Report 19. Summary Tables to Include in a Living Wage Report 20. Updating a Living Wage Estimate References Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by distinguished Keynesian and Post-Keynesian economists from diverse national backgrounds, this book examines the economic growth and employment experiences of both large areas of the world and specific economies. Dealing with critical issues in macroeconomic theory and policy, this book puts current issues in a historical perspective. Emphasising developments during and after the Great Recession, and paying due attention to the impacts of austerity policies, chapters explain that high growth of aggregate demand is as essential as ever to achieving full employment and rising living standards. Organised into three distinct thematic parts, the book moves from discussing theoretical considerations, to aggregate demand and employment in the EU, Latin America and the developing world, to individual country studies including Canada, India and Japan. Economics students, particularly those interested in heterodox economics and macroeconomics, will find the accessible language and perspectives on a range of major regions helpful. This will also be a useful read for macroeconomic policy-makers looking for a more in-depth understanding of the importance of boosting aggregate demand. Contributors include: H. Bougrine, J.K. Galbraith, B.K. MacLean, J.W. Mason, L. Osberg, L.-P. Rochon, M. Sawyer, M. Seccareccia, S. Sen, J. Toporowski, M. VernengoTrade Review'This volume features an all-star cast of some of the world's leading heterodox economists, evaluating the state of economics a decade after the global financial crisis, and identifying promising directions for a more realistic and humane approach to both theory and policy. The key lessons of this troubled time are still denied by orthodoxy: namely, that aggregate demand is predominant, and knee-jerk austerity only exacerbates the failures of deregulated, financialized capitalism. Combining careful empirical evidence with thoughtful criticism, these essays locate important chinks in the armour of conventional doctrine, and lead us toward better approaches. It's a powerful, and ultimately hopeful, collection.' --Jim Stanford, Centre for Future Work, Australia'A challenging set of essays indeed. ''High ... aggregate demand is ... essential ... to full employment and rising living standards.'' There is a negative relationship between unemployment and growth, and a positive one between growth and real wages. But, how to square this with fashionable views about the limits to growth?' --John Smithin, York University, Canada'. . . this book assembles essays by distinguished economists in the Keynesian and Post Keynesian traditions, offering a unified analytical framework for the recent economic experiences of large parts of the world. . . These essays therefore pose important questions, beginning with the most central: given that the crisis did occur, would a more progressive, more expansionary, more Keynesian policy have produced a faster recovery and a better long-term condition? This question can, in effect, be taken as a template for the entire book, which explores the potential consequences of better policies in a range of settings, some related directly to the Great Financial Crisis and others bound to it not so much directly, as by the pervasive application of mainstream policies to analogous situations.' --from the Foreword by James K. GalbraithTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiv Introduction: the importance of aggregate demand for full employment and rising living standards 1 Brian K. MacLean, Hassan Bougrine and Louis-Philippe Rochon PART I THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS 1 Macroeconomic lessons from the past decade 11 J.W. Mason 2 Dualism and economic stagnation: can a policy of guaranteed basic income return mature market economies to les Trente glorieuses ? 34 Mario Seccareccia 3 Kaleckian reflections on the wage share in recent Post-Keynesian controversies 52 Jan Toporowski PART II MULTI-COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES 4 The fiscal constraints of the Economic and Monetary Union 62 Malcolm Sawyer 5 The failure of development in Latin America 75 Mat.as Vernengo 6 Austerity, unemployment and poverty in developing countries 97 Hassan Bougrine and Louis-Philippe Rochon PART III COUNTRY STUDIES 7 Full employment in Canada in the early 21st century 116 Lars Osberg 8 Employment in India: aggregate demand and structural transformations 142 Sunanda Sen 9 Abenomics and the Japanese labour market 156 Brian K. MacLean Index 179

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Book SynopsisWe are witnessing the development of new technologies that could have a dramatic impact on markets for both skilled and unskilled labour, including the use of Big Data. In addition, many welfare states have once again been restructured, sometimes weakening states? protection of employees. This timely book provides a systematic and vigorous analysis of the impact of new technology on the labour market and different kinds of welfare states.The book offers a novel contribution to the discussion of how welfare states can be maintained and developed to support groups in society who often need aid from a welfare state system. It also highlights the risk of increased social division as a consequence of these developments, and considers whether or not our response to this divide will have negative repercussions on the way societies function.With comprehensive analysis of the sharing and platform economies as well as new types of inequality, Technology and the Future of Work will appeal to academics and graduate students of social policy and readers interested in societal change more broadly.Trade Review'Ongoing technological development brings the promise of higher productivity, increased efficiencies, and convenience, but the new technologies also raise difficult questions according to Bent Greve in this ground-breaking book concerning the impact of automation on jobs, skills, wages and inequality. Are welfare states prepared and how can they cope if there are fewer earners? Greve is the acknowledged expert on such questions. Social scientists interested in labour markets and welfare state transformations will enthusiastically welcome this book.' --Christopher Deeming, Journal of Social Policy and University of Strathclyde, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction – the big challenges 2. New technology – what is new? 3. Pressure in modern times and in the future 4. The sharing/platform economy 5. Towards a dual labour market 6. The end of labour market organisations 7. Are welfare states prepared? 8. Impact on inequality 9. Will new types of jobs change migration? 10. Coherent or split societies Index .

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