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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 SynopsisIn this ground-breaking book, Guy Standing offers a new perspective on work and citizenship, rejecting the labourist orientation of the 20th century. Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation marked the rise of industrial citizenship, which hinged on fictitious labour decommodification. Since the 1970s, this has collapsed and a Global Transformation is under way, in which inequalities and insecurities are becoming unsustainable. Guy Standing explains that while a struggle against paternalism is essential, the desirable egalitarian response to the problems caused by globalization is a strategy to build occupational citizenship. This is based on a right to universal economic security and institutions to enable everybody to develop their capabilities and work whilst respecting the ecological imperatives of the 21st century. The book also explores a phasing out of labour law and a re-orientation of collective bargaining towards collaborative bargaining, highlighting the increased importance of the relationship between groups of workers and citizens as well as between workers and capital.Work after Globalization offers a new perspective on work, rejecting the labourist orientation of the 20th century. Social scientists interested in globalization and labour market issues will warmly welcome this book. It will also strongly appeal to students, researchers, policy-makers, social activists and those connected with the international regulation of occupations.Trade Review'. . . this book is a tour de force, providing a provocative analysis as well as a vision, rooted in normative reflection for a better world to work in. It should be mandatory reading for all students of social policy and industrial relations.' -- Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Journal of Social Policy'This is a scholarly and erudite work. . . There is a wealth of detail, all illustrated with plenty of fascinating examples. . . It is impossible to give the full flavour of this thoughtful and stimulating book in even a long review, but it deserves to be widely accessible and read.' -- Citizen's Income'. . . this is the greatest book ever about work (in all its forms). . . Work after Globalization offers us the kind of foundation we need to launch a new social-democratic program. . . do yourself a favour, don't take my word for it. You need to read this book for yourself. . . If you're ever going to read a book about work, make it this one.' -- Peter Hall-Jones, New Unionism Network'This is an important book. It shifts emphasis from the role of capital to the creativity of labour in the creation of value in the real economy. A central role is accorded to each and all of the skills and occupations which contribute to the construction of an economy and a civic culture governed by the public interest. Guy Standing has made an original contribution to the validation of human creativity in the economic process. The work owes an acknowledged debt to the vision of Karl Polanyi.' -- Kari Polanyi-Levitt, McGill University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Work and Labour in Great Transformations 2. Fictitious Decommodification: The Failure of Industrial Citizenship 3. Labour Recommodification in the Global Transformation 4. Inequality, Class and the ‘Precariat’ 5. Crumbling Barriers to Decommodification 6. Occupational Dismantling and Commodification 7. Occupational Regulation 8. The Horror 9. Reviving Occupation in Full Freedom 10. Economic Rights: The Progressive Agenda Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill support the idea of a living wage and contrast with the ideas of more recent free-market economists who do not. The lessons we can learn from the contrasting ideas of both the early and recent economists will help us to think more clearly about the issues surrounding whether, how and why workers should be paid a living wage.The book reviews the history of economic ideas related to the idea of the living wage. It presents a debate between two ideologies, the moral economy and the market economy, as captured by the need to sustain the workforce, enhance its capability and avoid the externality effects of low wages. It is unique in that it applies these concepts exclusively to labor. The book also breaks new ground by presenting Adam Smith as a moral economist who anticipated many of the arguments set forth by modern day advocates of the living wage. It shows how successive economic thinkers added to Smith's arguments for a living (subsistence) wage or found fault with those arguments. Throughout the book Donald Stabile draws out the lessons that this history of the economic thought about adequate wages has for the modern living wage movement.Economists interested in the history of economic thought and labor issues will find this book a compelling read, as will academics and community groups advocating for a living wage.Trade Review‘The Living Wage provides a thorough examination of the living wage concept and will be useful for any activist or academic wishing to explore economic theories of wages.' -- Stephanie Luce, Australian Economic History Review'I highly recommend this book to anyone who cares about poverty and wants to know what economists have said about its connections with the labor market and to consider whether voluntary or government wage norms would be a wise, just, and effective way to reduce poverty. Economists should recommend this book to those who doubt that economists have values. Many professional economists could also use a good review of how their discipline has dealt with the ideas of just, fair, living, and minimal-wage rates. The book would make an excellent supplementary text for a history of economic thought class. Thanks to Stabile for providing a full treatment of such an important intellectual, social, and moral issue.' -- Robin Klay, Journal of Markets & Morality'. . . this is a fine addition to the history of economic thought and should be required reading for economists since it reminds us that economics was originally subsumed under the larger disciplinary umbrella of political economy and moral philosophy.' -- Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Industrial and Labor Relations Review'Stabile does us a valuable service by laying aside nebulous questions about justice and focusing on specific economic issues. In the process, he offers a compact, well-organized tour of the idea of a living wage in the history of economic thought. It is a book that deserves the attention of economists and scholars working on the history of ideas, as well as anyone contributing to debates over wage policy.' -- Art Carden, EH.NetTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: The Living Wage 2. Sustainability: Subsistence, Necessities and Unions 3. Capability: Work and Wages, Virtue and Skill 4. Externality, Community and Wages 5. Lessons from the History of Economic Thought Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides an important assembly of research findings for all who are interested either in changing or reinforcing present immigration policy. Both comprehensive and up-to-date, the study of the demographic, economic, and social interaction between immigration and internal mobility in the U.S. is based on a fresh analysis of the most recent data from all major available sources.Covering the past century through the present, the research reflects the concerns and problems of communities that receive migrants, as well as those of the migrants themselves. It provides a factual basis for negotiation between the strong demands for liberalized immigration laws and the equally strong public reaction toward unauthorized immigration. Emphasis is placed upon metropolitan areas, and their central cities and suburban communities. The authors study the role of mobility in neighborhood 'turnover' from one ethnic group to another, and how mobility both sustains and weakens clustering by income class, and individual motives for mobility. They find that the hypothesis of the 'healthy immigrant' does not extend into, but is in fact reversed, in old age. The book documents how the long-term economic and social adjustment of immigrants is highly dependent upon their skill level and education at time of entry, and discusses the implications of unauthorized immigration. This multidisciplinary and highly readable volume will appeal to demographers, economists and public policy specialists, as well as academics in labor and industrial economics, sociology, and geography.Trade Review'It is a lucid account, replete with detail, supported by extensive tables, and written in a form that will be readily accessible to a wide readership.' -- Martin Bell, Journal of Population ResearchTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Basics of Contemporary U.S. Internal Mobility and Immigration 2. Why Americans Move 3. Differential Composition of Metro and Nonmetro Migration Streams 4. Internal Migration and Immigration for Individual U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1995–2000, in Ecological and Race-Ethnic Perspective 5. Mobility Dynamic of Metro Areas with Large Net Internal Migration Losses and Gains 6. Neighborhood Mobility in Central Cities, Suburbs, and Nonmetro Areas in Race-Ethnic Perspective 7. Income Stratification of U.S. Neighborhoods, 1990–2000: What Roles Does Mobility Currently Play? 8. Immigration and Health in Old Age 9. Comparative Adjustment of Immigrants Index

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating book presents an in-depth study of the particular combination of unemployment insurance, employment protection and active labour market policies prevalent in seven European countries.Currently, European governments are being challenged to find an optimal social policy strategy that fosters 'flexicurity', whereby a flexible, well-functioning labour market is achieved, while protection for workers is maintained. The contributors explore the formal laws and regulations, as well as the administration and implementation of social policy, paying special attention to the role of the social partners. A detailed country comparison shows that the combination of social policy instruments is important to labour market performance, but that multiple optimal mixes already appear to exist.The Labour Market Triangle will prove invaluable to academics in the field of policy research, including economists, sociologists and political scientists. Policy advisers and practitioners in the field of social policy, as well as representatives of trade unions, employers associations and political parties will find this multidisciplinary book of great interest.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Achieving an Optimal Social Policy Mix Paul de Beer and Trudie Schils 2. Sweden Eskil Wadensjö 3. Denmark Per Kongshøj Madsen 4. The United Kingdom Jochen Clasen 5. The Netherlands Trudie Schils 6. Germany Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Werner Eichhorst 7. Belgium Johan De Deken 8. France Jean-Claude Barbier 9. Conclusion: Is There a Golden Triangle? Paul de Beer and Trudie Schils Index

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Book SynopsisThe contemporary framework for productivity measurement presented in this volume focuses on the impact of information technology on economic growth. The remarkable behavior of information technology prices provides the key to the resurgence of productivity growth in the USA and the world economy. This essential volume brings together recent research by leading scholars in this important field. Professor Jorgenson has provided an original introduction which offers useful insights into this exciting area of study.Trade Review‘There may be no topic in economics that is more important than productivity and there may be no man better qualified to bring together the leading research on productivity than Dale Jorgenson. This book is essential reading for any serious researcher or policy-maker seeking to understand this topic.’ -- Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Dale W. Jorgenson 1. Dale W. Jorgenson and Kevin J. Stiroh (2000), ‘Raising the Speed Limit: U.S. Economic Growth in the Information Age’ 2. Stephen D. Oliner and Daniel E. Sichel (2000), ‘The Resurgence of Growth in the late 1990s: Is Information Technology the Story?’ 3. Dale W. Jorgensen (2001), ‘Information Technology and the U.S. Economy’ 4. Martin Neil Baily (2002), ‘Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: The New Economy: Post Mortem or Second Wind’ 5. Nicholas Oulton (2002), ‘ICT and Productivity Growth in the United Kingdom’ 6. Kevin J. Stiroh (2002), ‘Information Technology and the U.S. Productivity Revival: What do the Industry Data Say?’ 7. Bart van Ark, Robert Inklaar and Robert H. McGuckin (2003), ‘ICT and Productivity in Europe and the United States: Where Do the Differences Come From’ 8. Susanto Basu, John Fednald, Nicholas Oulton and Sylaja Srinivasan (2003), ‘The Case of the Missing Productivity Growth, or Does Information Technology Explain Why Productivity Accelerated in the United States but Not in the United Kingdom’ 9. Bart van Ark and Marcin Piatkowski (2004), ‘Productivity, Innovation and ICT in Old and New Europe’ 10. Dale W. Jorgenson (2005), ‘Information Technology and the G7 Economics’ 11. Robert Inklaar, Mary O’Mahony and Marcel P. Timmer (2005), ‘ICT and Europe’s Productivity Performance: Industry-Level Growth Account Comparisons with the United States’ 12. Marcel P. Timmer and Bart van Ark (2005), ‘Does Information and Communication Technology Drive EU-US Productivity Growth Differentials?’ 13. Dale W. Jorgenson and Kazuyuki Motohashi (2005), ‘Information Technology and the Japanese Economy’ 14. Dale W. Jorgenson and Koji Nomura (2005), ‘The Industry Origins of Japanese Economic Growth’ 15. Dale W. Jorgenson and Khuong Vu (2007), ‘Information Technology and the World Growth Resurgence’ 16. Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer (2007), ‘Of Yeast and Mushrooms: Patterns of Industry-Level Productivity Growth’ 17. Robert Inklaar, Marcel P. Timmer and Bart van Ark (2007), ‘Mind the Gap! International Comparisons of Productivity in Services and Goods Production’ 18. Dale W. Jorgenson, Mun Ho, Jon D. Samuels and Kevin J. Stiroh (2007), ‘Industry Origins of the American Productivity Resurgence’ 19. Dale W. Jorgenson and Koju Nomura (2007), ‘The Industry Origins of the US-Japan Productivity Gap’ 20. Stephen D. Oliner, David E. Sichel and Kevin J. Stiroh (2007), ‘Explaining a Productive Decade’ 21. Robert Inklaar, Marcel P. Timmer and Bart van Ark (2008), ‘Market Services Productivity Across Europe and the U.S.’ 22. Dale W. Jorgenson, Mun S. Ho and Kevin J. Stiroh (2008), ‘A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence’ 23. Bart van Ark, Mary O’ Mahony and Marcel P. Timmer (2008), ‘The Productivity Gap Between Europe and the United States: Trends and Causes’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis highly topical book explores key issues in evaluating the long-run implications of population ageing for pensions, taxation, intergenerational equity and social welfare.Societies face long-term phenomena, such as demographic change and climate change that impose costs and benefits far into the future. These present challenges for policymakers in planning intertemporal consumption paths that balance the goals of efficiency and equity. An exploration of these issues, with respect to population ageing in particular, is the primary motivation for this book. John Creedy and Ross Guest evaluate these problems with a particular focus on the role of concepts, assumptions and value judgements.This book will be a fascinating read for researchers interested in the social evaluation of population ageing and climate change. Public policy makers and advisers will find the analysis of practical policy questions such as alternative regimes for taxing public pensions of special interest. Graduate students of macroeconomics and public economics will also find helpful discussions of social discounting, the efficiency and equity effects of tax smoothing, and potential new effects of population ageing on labour productivity.Trade Review'This is a useful book that presents a number of important ideas and results. Creedy and Guest's discussion of the assumptions and value choices required in these models is thoughtful and interesting. Their overall conclusion that population ageing is unlikely to significantly reduce living standards is important for policymakers and the general public, many of whom are still under the sway of "crisis" rhetoric. . . this will likely be a valuable book for economists or economic policy researchers interested in the macroeconomic implications of population ageing. The careful discussion of the models involved will be useful for both graduate students and experienced researchers in this field.' -- Martin Cooke, Canadian Studies in PopulationTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction Part II: Discounting and Time Preference 2. Discounting and Time Preference 3. The Elasticity of Marginal Valuation 4. Sustainable Preferences 5. Representative Agent and Social Planner Part III: Pensions and Taxation 6. Pension Tax, Savings and Labour Supply 7. Private Pensions and Savings Part IV: Population Ageing 8. Tax Smoothing and Population Ageing 9. Demographic Change in OECD Countries 10. Capital Intensity and Productivity 11. Extensions and Sensitivity Analyses Bibliography 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 SynopsisThis highly accessible book illustrates how policy makers can address and nurture the effects of growing ethnic diversity in European labor markets. The contributors present an unprecedented large-scale study on ethnic diversity in European labor markets via a combination of hard data analysis with expert evaluation of integration practices and policy options. Key questions explored include: Does ethnic diversity in European labor markets lead to poor socio-economic outcomes for some ethnic groups in the face of fierce competition for jobs and welfare? Can labor immigration and improved integration of all ethnic groups provide a solution to the challenges posed by a shrinking population, an aging workforce, skill shortages and other bottlenecks that constrain the innovative potential of the EU? What can policy makers do to nurture and encourage the benefits of ethnic diversity in the EU? This indispensable guide will be warmly welcomed by academics, students, policy makers, analysts and researchers with an interest in economics, European studies and labor studies. It will be especially insightful for those with a particular commitment to managing ethnic diversity in European labor markets.Contributors: A.F. Constant, S. de la Rica, D. Fougère, V. Ghetau, T.J. Hatton, M. Hazans, M. Kahanec, Z. Kántor, P.J. Pedersen, M. Vasecka, H.D. von Loeffelholz, A. Zaiceva, K.F. ZimmermannTrade Review’Kahanec and Zimmermann have produced a remarkably useful and accessible volume that everyone who is curious about, let alone interested in, the labor market situation of ethnic (and immigrant) minorities in the European Union must read. The editors have been imaginative in their use of multiple data systems and methodologies to tell a story that researchers and policy makers alike will find useful, even compelling. The result is a volume full of hard-to-find comparative analysis and policy insight about the labor market incorporation, or rather, the absence of it, of minorities, but also of what works (and what does not) in ethnic minority integration policies and why. The editors have painted on a vast canvas, with evidence that covers most of the Union. Impressively, and innovatively, however, they have also included detailed case studies for fully ten of the Union's member states, including some of the EU's most important and dynamic economies, such as Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Spain.’ -- Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President and Co-Founder of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI)’Kahanec and Zimmermann have put together a volume that destroys the myth that science and policy making cannot be bridged. In an accessible way, but deeply rooted in rigorous science, they provide a handbook for policy makers working in the field of inclusion and integration of ethnic minorities. They identify key policy challenges, address the question of what minorities want, and propose a policy agenda of how to get there.’ -- Rita Sussmuth, Chair of the European Union's High Level Group on 'Social Integration of Ethnic Minorities and their full Participation in the Labor Market' (2006-2007)Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus F. Zimmermann 2. An Expert Stakeholder’s View on European Integration Challenges Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann 3. The Practice of Minority Integration in the European Union: What Works Martin Kahanec 4. Social and Labor Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Denmark Peder J. Pedersen 5. Social and Labor Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities in France: Has the French Integration Model Broken Down? Denis Fougère 6. Social and Labor Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Germany Hans Dietrich von Loeffelholz 7. Ethnic or Social Integration? The Roma in Hungary Zoltán Kántor 8. Labor Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Latvia Mihails Hazans 9. Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands Joop Hartog 10. Minority Inclusion in Romania Vasile Gheţău 11. Social and Labor Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Slovakia Michal Vašečka 12. Social and Labor Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Spain Sara de la Rica 13. The Social and Labor Market Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in the UK Timothy J. Hatton 14. A Policy Agenda for Diversity and Minority Integration Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann Index

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Book SynopsisIn this tightly argued work William Coleman explores the macroeconomic implications of politically based restraints on competition in labour markets.Through a suite of compact models the author investigates the consequences of the labour force securing the best terms of sale for its labour by means of the electoral mechanism. He concludes that such ?electorally optimal? labour regulation can explain not only wage rigidity and unemployment, but also wage volatility; episodes of excess demand for labour; the co-existence of an inefficient state sector with an efficient private sector; and the preference for a minimum wage over a universal wage regulation. Finally, the approach can rationalize nominal wage rigidity, and not solely real wage rigidity. In sum, the analysis promises to both complete the Classical explanation of unemployment by predicting when, why and how real wages will be rigid, and at the same time to better secure Keynesian insights by suggesting how money rigidity may be characteristic of electorally optimal labour regulation.The Political Economy of Wages and Unemployment will prove a challenging and stimulating read for academics, students and researchers of economics generally, and more specifically, those with a special interest in macroeconomics and labour economics.Trade Review‘William Oliver Coleman has written a provocative and interesting book. . . there is a lot to recommend in this book. It advocates a plausible theory of rigid wages. It does so in a thorough and competent manner. . . I would recommend this book for both graduate students and researchers interested in macroeconomics and labour economics.’ -- Lawrence Uren, Economic RecordTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Problem Labour Monopoly Might Solve 2. The Fall and Rise of Labour Monopoly Theory 3. How a Wage Bill Hill Creates a Wage Rate Floor 4. Why the Floor Will Fluctuate 5. How Bargaining May Build a Ceiling Instead of a Floor 6. How Foresight May (and may not) Defeat the Floor 7. Why the ‘Property-Owning Democracy’ May Nationalize Capital Rather than Regulate Labour 8. Unemployment as a Benefit of Unemployment Benefits 9. Why the Majority May Choose the Wage of the Minority 10. Rigidity and Volatility in the Face of the Cycle: A Neoklassikal Analysis 11. Labour Monopoly as the Source of Money Wage Rigidity: A Hypothesis 12. A Concluding Comment References Index

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Book SynopsisFeaturing new findings and fresh insights from an international roster of labor economists, including such eminent authors as Morley Gunderson, Harry Holzer, and Paul Ryan, this book delves into a uniquely wide range of high-profile labor issues affecting youth in the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan - from declining job, wage, and training prospects to workplace health hazards, immigration, union activism, and new policy strategies. This widely accessible introduction to the latest research in the area presents original empirical economic studies in an engaging style.All may find something of interest in the host of controversial topics of lively public debate that are covered, including: youth unemployment, earnings mobility, racial/ethnic and gender inequalities, training quality and access, job hazards, health insurance coverage, immigration, minimum wage laws, union organizing, and global economic competition.Young Workers in the Global Economy is written in a clear and accessible style for a broad readership ranging from scholars and college students to employers, unions, career counselors, human resource professionals, vocational trainers, policy analysts, government officials, immigration and health care activists, as well as to the wider public concerned about the future of youth career prospects.Trade Review'This timely collection offers an analysis of youth employment in a global perspective. It examines five subject areas, ranging from current trends in labor markets through education levels of job seekers, workplace safety, immigration and strategic initiatives to deal with declining levels of employment. . . . it sets forth clear prescriptions for public policy. Recommended.' -- R.L. Hogler, Choice'. . . the volume is successful in reaching an always difficult equilibrium between scientific soundness, on the one hand, and fluency, on the other hand. . . the book is a highly enjoyable and engaging read also for a general audience interested in understanding the new dimensions of what has become a persistent affliction of many households in advanced economies.' -- Education Economics'This excellent collection addresses an important issue: Why young people in so many countries experience more unemployment and precariousness than previous generations, and what we can do about it.' -- Michael Reich, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Youth Employment: Crisis or Course Change? An Introduction Gregory DeFreitas PART I: CURRENT JOB TRENDS AND CHALLENGES 2. The Youth Labor Market Problem in Cross-Country Perspective Rebekka Christopoulou 3. Out of School, Out of Work, Out of Luck? Black Male Youth Joblessness in New York City Mark Levitan 4. Still With Us After All of These Years: Youth Labor Market Entry, Home-Leaving and Human Capital Accumulation in Italy, 1993–2003 Niall O’Higgins 5. Youth Employment in Japan after the 1990s Bubble Burst Naoki Mitani PART II: SCHOOL-TO-WORK TRANSITIONS 6. Youth Employment Problems and School-to-Work Institutions in Advance Economies Paul Ryan 7. Work and Non-Work Time Use of US College Students Lonnie M. Golden PART III: DYING FOR A JOB 8. Occupational Fatalities Among Young Workers Janice Windau 9. Falling Private Health Insurance Coverage Among Young Workers in the United States Niev J. Duffy PART IV: HOW DOES IMMIGRATION AFFECT AMERICAN YOUTH? 10. Immigration and Youth Employment: Recent Debates and Research Findings Gregory DeFreitas 11. Unauthorized Mexican Immigration and Youth Labor Market Outcomes in California in the 1990s Enrico A. Marcelli PART V: STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING FUTURE JOB PROSPECTS 12. How Can We Improve Employment Outcomes for Young Black Men? Harry J. Holzer 13. Does Job Corps Training Boost the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Latinos? Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Arturo Gonzalez and Todd Neumann 14. Have Young Workers Lost Their (Collective) Voice? Youth–Adult Preferences for Workplace Voice in Canada Michele Campolieti, Rafael Gomez and Morley Gunderson References Index

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Book SynopsisHow is women's employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book, written by leading experts in the field, examines twenty-five years of change in women's employment and addresses the challenges facing women today. The authors offer an innovative analysis of how global changes including new migration processes, educational expansion, transnational labour markets, technological advances and the global economy affect women's labour market experiences. They tackle issues relevant for future change, including gender inequalities and ethnic diversities, and confront contentious questions such as what is meant by work-life balance. The book provides new empirical research that both advances our understanding of the challenges posed by women's employment in our changing society and draws out the policy lessons that could improve economic and social wellbeing.Providing dynamic analysis of employment-family inter relationships, Women and Employment will be of great relevance to social scientists and academics interested in employment and family as well as policymakers concerned with changing women's employment.Trade Review'. . . this book provides an excellent evaluation of women's past, current and potential employment situation. It contains lots of analysis, yet is never difficult to read, and provides plenty of useful and thought-provoking context to the analysis.' -- Malcolm Brynin, Work, Employment and Society'. . . this book represents a reference work for the understanding of past and new gender issues and may be of relevance to a wide audience: those studying social and political sciences and gender studies scholars. . . Education researchers should be interested in the attention drawn to the impact of women's orientation at school and in higher education on gendered attitudes, experiences and trajectories for the future.' -- Julie Jarty, Gender & Education'An informative and important volume.' -- Johanna Kumlin, European Sociological Review'This collection further contributes to our awareness of the complicated intersection of work and family life for women and men and to a few of the socio-economic factors which serve as impediments to its synchronization. It is well written, carefully researched, and rather detailed in its analysis.' -- Susan Cody, Sex RolesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Changing Lives and New Challenges Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi, Kate Purcell and Peter Elias PART I: WOMEN AND EMPLOYMENT: ASSESSING PROGRESS ON EQUALITY 1. Achieving Equality in the Knowledge Economy Kate Purcell and Peter Elias 2. Changes in Women’s Occupations and Occupational Mobility Over 25 Years Shirley Dex, Kelly Ward and Heather Joshi 3. Ethnic Differences in Women’s Labour Market Activity Angela Dale, Joanne Lindley, Shirley Dex and Anthony Rafferty PART II: DYNAMICS OF EMPLOYMENT AND FAMILY ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE 4. Putting Women on the Research Agenda: The 1980 Women and Employment Survey Jean Martin and Ceridwen Roberts 5. The New Dynamics of Family Formation and the Explosion of Childbearing Outside Marriage John Ermisch 6. Changing Gender Role Attitudes Jacqueline Scott PART III: WORK–LIFE BALANCE 7. Working Full-Time After Motherhood Susan McRae 8. Class Difference in Mothers’ Work Schedules and Assessments of their ‘Work–Life Balance’ in Dual-Earner Couples in Britain Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Diane Perrons, Kathryn Ray and Kevin Ward 9. Mothers’ Employment, Work–Life Conflict, Careers and Class Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette 10. The Household Division of Labour: Changes in Families’ Allocation of Paid and Unpaid Work Susan Harkness 11. Work–Family Balance Policies: Issues and Development in the UK 1997–2005 in Comparative Perspective Jane Lewis PART IV: WAYS FORWARD 12. Women and Work in the UK: The Need for a Modernisation of Labour Market Institutions Jill Rubery 13. The Regulation of Women’s Pay: From Individual Rights to Reflexive Law? Simon Deakin and Colm McLaughlin 14. Migration, Employment and Gender Divisions of Labour Linda McDowell, Adina Batnitzky and Sarah Dyer 15. Policy on Care: A Help or Hindrance to Gender Equality? Susan Himmelweit Index

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Book SynopsisCombining both academic and practitioner perspectives, this book provides authoritative insights into the integration of European labour markets against the background of increasing international labour mobility.A wide range of contributions explore, in particular, the effects that labour mobility has had on the earnings and employment situation of individual households, on the effective supply of labour, and on the availability of skills in migrants' home and host countries as well as on the size of income support through migrants' remittances. Global and European trends and patterns are discussed along with related policy challenges - all with a special focus on European migration after EU enlargement - and the nexus between labour markets and trade integration.This book will be an invaluable source of information for economists and other economic policy and European integration experts from central, commercial and investment banks, governments, international organizations, universities and research institutes alike.Trade Review'This selection of essays widens the scope for discussion on the design of national labour market and migration policies in the enlarged European Union. They provide some new evidence on recent development on labour market outcomes, and thus, contribute to the ongoing political debate on the economic effects of the enlargement of the European Union. . . it was definitely a gain to spend time in reading this volume.' -- Mathias Czaika, Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und StatistikTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: The Successful Integration of European Labour Markets Matters Ewald Nowotny PART I: THE EFFECTS OF MIGRATION ON LABOUR MARKETS 1. Labour Mobility and the Integration of European Labour Markets Klaus F. Zimmermann 2. The Difficulties of Managing Labour Migration: Spain’s Experience in the European Context Joaquín Arango 3. Can International Migration Ever be Made a Pareto Improvement? Gabriel Felbermayr and Wilhelm Kohler 4. Do Stricter Migration Policies Deter FDI? Peter Egger and Doina Maria Radulescu PART II: EUROPEAN MIGRATION AFTER EU ENLARGEMENT 5. Labour Mobility in the Enlarged EU: Causes, Constraints and Potential Herbert Brücker 6. Polish Emigration to the UK After EU Enlargement in 2004: A ‘Natural Experiment’ for Testing the Rationality of Migration Choice Katarzyna B. Budnik 7. Immigration, Occupation and Wages Stephen Nickell and Jumana Saleheen 8. Emigration, Labour Shortages and Brain Drain in the New EU Member States: Some Descriptive Evidence Radek Malý and Christoph Maier 9. International Migration and Remittances in the Balkans: The Case of Bulgaria Vesselin Mintchev PART III: LABOUR MARKETS AND TRADE INTEGRATION 10. Economic Integration and Labour Market Policy in EMU Giuseppe Bertola 11. New Trade in New Europe Henryk Kierzkowski 12. The Wage Effects of Economic Integration: A Sectoral Perspective in the Enlarged European Union Éva Katalin Polgár and Julia Woerz 13. The Distributional Effects of Trade on Austrian Wages Wolfgang Pointner Index

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Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking book, Guy Standing offers a new perspective on work and citizenship, rejecting the labourist orientation of the 20th century. Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation marked the rise of industrial citizenship, which hinged on fictitious labour decommodification. Since the 1970s, this has collapsed and a Global Transformation is under way, in which inequalities and insecurities are becoming unsustainable. Guy Standing explains that while a struggle against paternalism is essential, the desirable egalitarian response to the problems caused by globalization is a strategy to build occupational citizenship. This is based on a right to universal economic security and institutions to enable everybody to develop their capabilities and work whilst respecting the ecological imperatives of the 21st century. The book also explores a phasing out of labour law and a re-orientation of collective bargaining towards collaborative bargaining, highlighting the increased importance of the relationship between groups of workers and citizens as well as between workers and capital.Work after Globalization offers a new perspective on work, rejecting the labourist orientation of the 20th century. Social scientists interested in globalization and labour market issues will warmly welcome this book. It will also strongly appeal to students, researchers, policy-makers, social activists and those connected with the international regulation of occupations.Trade Review'. . . this book is a tour de force, providing a provocative analysis as well as a vision, rooted in normative reflection for a better world to work in. It should be mandatory reading for all students of social policy and industrial relations.' -- Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Journal of Social Policy'This is a scholarly and erudite work. . . There is a wealth of detail, all illustrated with plenty of fascinating examples. . . It is impossible to give the full flavour of this thoughtful and stimulating book in even a long review, but it deserves to be widely accessible and read.' -- Citizen's Income'. . . this is the greatest book ever about work (in all its forms). . . Work after Globalization offers us the kind of foundation we need to launch a new social-democratic program. . . do yourself a favour, don't take my word for it. You need to read this book for yourself. . . If you're ever going to read a book about work, make it this one.' -- Peter Hall-Jones, New Unionism Network'This is an important book. It shifts emphasis from the role of capital to the creativity of labour in the creation of value in the real economy. A central role is accorded to each and all of the skills and occupations which contribute to the construction of an economy and a civic culture governed by the public interest. Guy Standing has made an original contribution to the validation of human creativity in the economic process. The work owes an acknowledged debt to the vision of Karl Polanyi.' -- Kari Polanyi-Levitt, McGill University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Work and Labour in Great Transformations 2. Fictitious Decommodification: The Failure of Industrial Citizenship 3. Labour Recommodification in the Global Transformation 4. Inequality, Class and the ‘Precariat’ 5. Crumbling Barriers to Decommodification 6. Occupational Dismantling and Commodification 7. Occupational Regulation 8. The Horror 9. Reviving Occupation in Full Freedom 10. Economic Rights: The Progressive Agenda Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book investigates the growth of the early retirement trend and its varying spread among different groups of older workers in fourteen modern societies. It argues for a differentiated political approach to reverse early retirement, which relies on both pension and employability policies for older workers.Examining the early retirement trend virtually all modern societies have been faced with since the onset of the globalization process in the 1970s and 1980s, this book provides a thorough analysis of older workers? late careers and their retirement transitions, as well as explaining why this trend has developed differently between nations. To promote an effective reversal of the early retirement trend, national policymakers are advised not to concentrate their efforts exclusively on reducing the financial incentives for an early exit still present in most national pension systems. In addition, it is also recommended that they invest in the employability of older workers, implying a thorough reconsideration of the design of education and labor market policies. Dirk Hofäcker presents a unique and comprehensive synthesis of theories describing and explaining the trend towards early retirement, and critically discusses their comparative advantages and shortcomings. Researchers and students of sociology, economics, gerontology, demography and comparative welfare states should not be without this book and policymakers and practitioners dealing with labor market policies will find it invaluable.Trade Review‘This carefully syntheized analysis of labor patterns across different countries in the European Union and the United States is extremely well organized and rich in content. . . Hofäcker deserves praise for his important and timely scholarship.’ -- Tracey Ellen Ryan, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books‘. . . well written and presents a wealth of data clearly. . . a useful resource for scholars seeking to go beyond generalisations about early retirement whether they be gerontologists, economists with interests in pension policies, or social historians who wish to investigate the perplexities of ageing societies at a time when retirement curiously seemed to be occurring earlier.’ -- Jill Manthorpe, International Journal of Ageing and Later Life‘It is an excellent source for those seeking to access the key debates in the literature surrounding age and the labour market. . . he succeeds in providing an erudite cross-cultural examination with his findings making a strong contribution to our understanding of retirement patterns using large-scale panel data for 14 countries drawn from OECD, Eurostat and EC data.’ -- Kathleen Riach, Work, Employment and Society‘. . . the book can be recommended to all with an interest in the issue of older workers in a globalised world.’ -- Ageing and SocietyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Hans-Peter Blossfeld 1. Introduction: The ‘Two-faced Pension Crisis’ 2. State of the Art in Social Science Research 3. Globalization, Institutional Strategies and Late Careers 4. The Macro-perspective: Late Careers and Retirement in International Comparison 5. The Micro-perspective: A Four-country Comparison 6. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisOver coming decades, changes in population age structure will have profound implications for the macroeconomy - influencing economic growth, generational equity, human capital, saving and investment, and the sustainability of public and private transfer systems. How the future unfolds will depend on key actors in the generational economy: governments, families, financial institutions, and others. This path-breaking book provides a comprehensive analysis of the macroeconomic effects of changes in population age structure across the globe. The result of a substantial seven-year research project involving over 50 economists and demographers from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States, the book draws on a new and comprehensive conceptual framework - National Transfer Accounts - to quantify the economic lifecycle and economic flows across generations. It presents comprehensive estimates of both public and private economic flows between generations, and emphasizes the global nature of changes in population age structure which are affecting rich and poor countries alike. This unique and informative book will prove an invaluable reference tool for a wide ranging audience encompassing: students, researchers, and academics in fields such as demography, aging, public finance, economic development, macroeconomics, gerontology and national income accounting; policymakers and advisers focusing on areas of the public sector such as education, health, pensions, other social security programs, tax policy, and public debt; and policy analysts at international agencies such as the World Bank, the IMF and the UN.Trade Review‘While there already exists a crowded body of publications addressing the effect of an aging population on the economy, this monograph is most outstanding in presenting a global, in-depth analysis of the implications thereby generated for 23 developed and developing countries. . . Scholars, researchers, and practitioners everywhere will benefit immensely from this comprehensive work.’ -- H.I. Liebling, Choice‘Ron Lee and Andrew Mason’s Population Aging and the Generational Economy is a demographic and economic tour-de-force. Their collaborative, intercontinental. . . study of aging, consumption, labor supply, saving, and private and public transfers is the place to go to understand global aging and its myriad and significant economic challenges and opportunities.’ -- – Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University, US‘The culmination of. . . work by Lee, Mason, and their collaborators from around the world to extend Samuelson’s framework to accommodate realistic demography, empirical measurement of age-specific earnings, consumption, tax payments, and benefit receipts, the studies. . . demonstrate the power of this integrated economic-demographic framework to advance our understanding of critical public policy challenges faced by countries at different stages of demographic transition and population aging.’ -- Robert Willis, University of Michigan, US‘Lee and Mason have done scholars and practitioners a magnificent service by undertaking this comprehensive, compelling, and supremely innovative examination of the economic consequences of changes in population age structure. The book is a bona fide crystal ball. It will be a MUST READ for the next decade!’ -- David Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS 1. Population Aging and the Generational Economy: Key Findings Andrew Mason and Ronald Lee 2. Theoretical Aspects of National Transfer Accounts Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason 3. Introducing Age into National Accounts Andrew Mason and Ronald Lee 4. Lifecycles, Support Systems, and Generational Flows: Patterns and Change Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason PART II: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF AGE AND THE MACROECONOMY 5. Labor Income Over the Lifecycle Sang-Hyop Lee and Naohiro Ogawa 6. Consumption Over the Lifecycle: An International Comparison An-Chi Tung 7. The Rise of the Intergenerational State: Aging and Development Tim Miller 8. Private Transfers in Comparative Perspective Ronald Lee and Gretchen Donehower 9. Asset-based Flows from a Generational Perspective Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa, Amonthep Chawla and Rikiya Matsukura PART III: COUNTRY STUDIES OF AGE AND THE MACROECONOMY A. Overviews of the Generational Economy 10. How Intergenerational Transfers Finance the Lifecycle Deficit in Spain Concepció Patxot, Elisenda Rentería, Miguel Sánchez-Romero and Guadalupe Souto 11. National Transfer Accounts for Austria: Low Levels of Education and the Generosity of the Social Security System Jože Sambt and Alexia Prskawetz 12. The Significance of Inter-age Economic Transfers in Chile Jorge Bravo and Mauricio Holz 13. The Economic Lifecycle and Intergenerational Redistribution in Mexico  Iván Mejía-Guevara 14. National Transfer Accounts for Finland Risto Vaittinen and Reijo Vanne B. The Economic Lifecycle 15. The Changing Shape of the Economic Lifecycle in the United States, 1960 to 2003 Ronald Lee, Gretchen Donehower and Tim Miller 16. Labor Income and Consumption Profiles: The Case of Germany Fanny A. Kluge 17. Slovenia: Independence and the Return to the Family of European Market Economies Jože Sambt and Janez Malačič 18. Changes in Patterns of Philippine Lifecycle Consumption and Labor Income between 1994 and 2002  Rachel H. Racelis and J.M. Ian Salas 19. National Transfer Accounts for Kenya: The Economic Lifecycle in 1994 Germano Mwabu, Moses K. Muriithi and Reuben G. Mutegi C. Systems of Intergenerational Flows 20. Intergenerational Resource Allocation in the Republic of Korea Chong-Bum An, Young-Jun Chun, Eul-Sik Gim, Namhui Hwang and Sang-Hyop Lee 21. Idiosyncrasies of Intergenerational Transfers in Brazil Cassio M. Turra, Bernardo L. Queiroz and Eduardo L.G. Rios-Neto 22. The Changing Patterns of China’s Public Services Ling Li, Qiulin Chen and Yu Jiang 23. Intergenerational Redistribution in Sweden’s Public and Private Sectors Daniel Hallberg, Thomas Lindh, Gustav Öberg and Charlotte Thulstrup 24. Public Transfer Flows between Generations in Uruguay Marisa Bucheli and Cecilia González 25. The Structure of Generational Public Transfer Flows in Nigeria Adedoyin Soyibo, Olanrewaju Olaniyan and Akanni O. Lawanson 26. The Role of Familial Transfers in Supporting the Lifecycle Deficit in India Laishram Ladusingh and M.R. Narayana D. Issues Related to the Generational Economy 27. The Elderly as Latent Assets in Aging Japan Naohiro Ogawa, Rikiya Matsukura and Amonthep Chawla 28. Living Arrangements and Support for the Elderly in Taiwan An-Chi Tung and Nicole Mun Sim Lai 29. Transfer Accounts in Costa Rica’s Mixed Economy Under Rapidly Changing Demographic Conditions Luis Rosero-Bixby, Paola Zúñiga-Brenes and Andrea Collado 30. The Support System for Indonesian Elders: Moving Toward a Sustainable National Pension System Maliki 31. Incorporating Time into the National Transfer Accounts: The Case of Thailand Mathana Phananiramai 32. National Transfer Accounts in Hungary: Contribution Asset and Returns in a Pay-as-you-go Pension Scheme Róbert I. Gál, Vera Gergely and Márton Medgyesi PART IV: APPENDIX TABLES Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisDiscrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its magnitude, causes, or remedies. Despite some gains in our understanding, these remain active areas of debate among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. The specially commissioned papers in this volume, all by distinguished contributors, present the full range of issues related to this complex and challenging problem. Part 1 explores innovations in methods and data collection that help to provide richer descriptions of inequality. Part 2 reviews empirical evidence on discrimination that people with disabilities, older workers and gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals face. Although discrimination among these groups is not new, this Handbook shows that economists are beginning to more fully document their experiences. Part 3 presents a balanced discussion of anti-discrimination policies and the impact of affirmative action. The methods and data chapters are particularly designed to encourage researchers to utilize the new approaches and develop new data sources.Accessible and comprehensive, the Handbook is the seminal reference on the economics of discrimination for academic and professional economists, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, practitioners, policymakers, and funders of social science research.Trade Review'The papers contained in the first part of the book are particularly valuable as a primer for researchers interested in economic discrimination. On this basis alone this book is recommended for researchers seeking an overview of current techniques for assessing economic discrimination. . . The final section nicely highlights both the importance in understanding the interaction of policy and economic discrimination, and the difficulties in isolating policy effects.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction William M. Rodgers III Part I: New Methods 1. A Primer on Wage Gap Decompositions in the Analysis of Labor Market Discrimination Yana van der Meulen Rodgers 2. Using Matched Employer–Employee Data to Study Labor Market Discrimination Judith K. Hellerstein and David Neumark 3. Learning About Discrimination by Talking to Employers Philip Moss and Chris Tilly 4. Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Psychology and Economics Lisa R. Anderson, Roland G. Fryer and Charles A. Holt Part II: Beyond Race and Gender 5. A Critical Review of Studies of Discrimination Against Workers with Disabilities Marjorie L. Baldwin and William G. Johnson 6. Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation: A Review of the Literature in Economics and Beyond M.V. Lee Badgett 7. Age Discrimination in US Labor Markets: A Review of the Evidence Scott J. Adams and David Neumark Part III: Policy Impacts 8. Discrimination in the Credit and Housing Markets: Findings and Challenges Gary A. Dymski 9. Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Harry J. Holzer and David Neumark Concluding Thoughts William M. Rodgers III Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides in-depth and innovative analysis of the minimum wage in Europe. The authors explore its role and scope within the enlarged EU, and address the question of whether there should be harmonization between the individual member states or even a common EU minimum wage. They also examine the impact of the minimum wage at the national level, looking at trends and effects through case studies of specific policy issues and industrial sectors.Minimum wage fixing has returned quite prominently to the core of policy debates as evidenced by the adoption of a statutory minimum wage in Ireland and the UK, a minimum wage agreement in Austria and the ongoing discussions in Germany and Sweden. Proposals to have common rules at the EU level have also multiplied since enlargement, in particular to minimize ?social dumping? and allow increased transnational mobility. This book assesses the renewed interest in the minimum wage in Europe, identifying the concrete effects of minimum wage fixing on employment, low pay, wage disparity, collective bargaining and migration.Bringing together 15 national studies from noted European specialists in the field, this timely collection aims to stimulate the current debate. It will appeal to academics, students, researchers and policymakers working in labour economics in particular, and European studies more generally.Trade Review‘A body of impressive and insightful scholarship, The Minimum Wage Revisited in the Enlarged EU is strongly recommended as a seminal addition to academic library economic studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.’ -- The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. Minimum Wage Revival in the Enlarged EU: Explanatory Factors and Developments Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead 2. Bulgaria: A Shift in Minimum Wage Policy Vassil Tzanov 3. Croatia: Moving Towards a More Active Minimum Wage Policy Danijel Nestić 4. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: Minimum Wages in a Context of Migration and Labour Shortages Jaan Masso and Kerly Krillo 5. France: Towards the End of an Active Minimum Wage Policy? Jérôme Gautié 6. Germany: What Role for Minimum Wages on Low-wage Work? Gerhard Bosch and Thorsten Kalina 7. Greece: Neglect and Resurgence of Minimum Wage Policy Eugenia Fotoniata and Thomas Moutos 8. Hungary: The Consequences of Doubling the Minimum Wage János Köllő 9. Ireland: A Successful Minimum Wage Implementation? Brian Nolan 10. The Netherlands: Minimum Wage Fall Shifts Focus to Part-time Jobs Wiemer Salverda 11. Poland: Minimum Wage, Employment and Labour Migration Jacek Wallusch 12. Sweden: A Minimum Wage Model in Need of Modification Per Skedinger 13. Turkey: Minimum Wage in Tension between Economic and Social Concerns Seyhan Erdogdu 14. United Kingdom: Developing a Progressive Minimum Wage in a Liberal Market Economy Damian Grimshaw 15. Towards an EU Minimum Wage Policy? Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful study explores the growth of the two largest post-industrial immigrant nations since the Second World War - Australia and Israel. Almost one in four Australians were born outside the country, more than one in three Israelis. Immigration and Nation Building brings a comparative approach to the discussion of patterns of immigration, legal structures, the labour market, civil society, public opinion, and integration of the second generation. The result is a thought provoking analysis of the distinctive and universal in the development of two immigrant nations. By comparing the experiences of these two countries, this ground-breaking study of immigration and its impact will appeal to policy analysts and researchers in government and academia, as well as students in the areas of sociology, politics, economics and history.Trade Review‘. . . the book is an important study on immigrants in Australia and Israel in the twentieth century, and has important implications for social policy formation, immigration policy, and the creation of a sense of nationhood in these two diverse countries, even as both of them signify the need for convergence and adoption of a humane approach to the sensitivities of migrant polulations. The book is thus a welcome addition to the existing literature on immigration, and would prove useful to researchers of social and political policies. The presentation, production and editing of the book are also of appreciable quality, and overall the book offers stimulating reading at an affordable price.’ -- Biswajit Chatterjee, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics‘Immigration and Nation Building examines a dilemma shared by Israel and Australia with many other countries: they are nations of immigrants, but continued immigration introduces fractures and inequalities that could undermine the sense of nationhood. Systematic comparisons across many dimensions help the reader to view each country’s experience from a new perspective. The analyses here provide a solid basis for addressing the underlying policy questions: Whose Israel? Whose Australia?’ -- John R. Logan, Brown University, US‘This book provides a comprehensive perspective on the role of immigration in nation building. It does so not only through the demographic change that migration brought about, but by revealing how immigration impacted on major spheres of life in both Australia and Israel. The central focus on the comparative perspective makes this book distinctive. Rather than providing parallel stories of two societies, the chapters are structured in a way that specifically fleshes out similarities and differences in major areas of immigration policy and immigrant incorporation. It should appeal to students of international migration as well as those interested more directly in understanding Australian and Israeli societies.’ -- Noah Lewin-Epstein, Tel Aviv University, Israel‘This is a concise yet comprehensive analysis of the role of immigration in the nation building of Australia and Israel. With contributions by leading scholars and a thoughtful examination of recent data and research the book provides an important contribution to the study of immigration in each society, while also convincingly demonstrating the benefits of comparative cross-national analysis. It deserves to be widely read by social scientists and others who are interested in the factors that have shaped Australian and Israeli societies and who also want to understand how immigration continues to be central to their future development.’ -- Mark Western, The University of Queensland, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Andrew Markus and Moshe Semyonov 1. Demography – Trends and Composition Karin Amit, Allan Borowski and Sergio DellaPergola 2. Immigration Laws Na’ama Carmi and Susan Kneebone 3. Labor Market Integration Yitchak Haberfeld and Anne Daly 4. The Civil Society Olena Bagno, Majid Al-Haj and Andrew Jakubowicz 5. Immigration and Public Opinion Andrew Markus and Rebeca Raijman 6. The Second Generation Haya Stier and Siew-Ean Khoo References Index

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Book SynopsisBoth women and men strive to achieve a work and family balance, but does this imply more or less equality? Does the persistence of gender and class inequalities refute the notion that lives are becoming more individualised? Leading international authorities document how gender inequalities are changing and how many inequalities of earlier eras are being eradicated. However, this book shows there are new barriers and constraints that are slowing progress in attaining a more egalitarian society. Taking the new global economy into account, the expert contributors to this book examine the conflicts between different types of feminisms, revise old debates about ?equality? and ?difference? in the gendered nature of work and care, and propose new and innovative policy solutions.This path-breaking book makes essential reading for all those interested in the intersections of class, family and employment in the 21st century. Students and researchers of sociology, gender studies and social policy, as well as practitioners and policy-makers interested in work?family balance, will find this book invaluable.Trade Review‘This authoritative book, which brings together chapters by many of the leading experts on the topic, documents the new barriers and continuing constraints that still stand in the way of gender equality. It is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the persisting inequalities of gender and class in work and family life.’ -- Jan Pahl, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: What’s New About Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century? Jacqueline Scott, Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette PART I: FAMILY AND LABOUR MARKET CHANGE 1. Becoming Adult: The Persisting Importance of Class and Gender Ingrid Schoon 2. Class Reproduction, Occupational Inheritance and Occupational Choices Fiona Devine 3. Ethnic Differences in Women’s Economic Activity: A Focus on Pakistani and Bangladeshi Women Angela Dale and Sameera Ahmed PART II: OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURES AND WELFARE REGIMES 4. Gender and the Post-industrial Shift Janette Webb 5. Penalties of Part-time Work Across Europe Tracey Warren 6. Feminising Professions in Britain and France: How Countries Differ Nicky Le Feuvre PART III: THE CHALLENGE OF INTEGRATING FAMILY AND WORK 7. Gender Segregation and Bargaining in Domestic Labour: Evidence from Longitudinal Time-use Data Man Yee Kan and Jonathan Gershuny 8. Family, Class and Gender ‘Strategies’ in Mothers’ Employment and Childcare Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette 9. Perceptions of Quality of Life: Gender Differences Across the Life Course Jacqueline Scott, Anke C. Plagnol and Jane Nolan PART IV: UNDERSTANDING INEQUALITIES 10. Within-Household Inequalities Across Classes? Management and Control of Money Fran Bennett, Jerome De Henau and Sirin Sung 11. Restructuring Gender Relations: Women’s Labour Market Participation and Earnings Inequality Among Households Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and Arne Mastekaasa PART V: CONFRONTING COMPLEXITY 12. Feminist Policies and Feminist Conflicts: Daddy’s Care or Mother’s Milk? Anne Lise Ellingsæter 13. A Mysterious Commodity: Capitalism and Femininity Mary Evans Index

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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 SynopsisOver the past decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has helped to improve corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and human rights violations. However, as the author argues in this important new book, the time has now come to incorporate wage issues into CSR. Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead proposes a new methodology, the `Fair Wage' approach, providing CSR actors with a coherent and comprehensive set of fair wage dimensions and indicators. Application of this new approach in a large-scale auditing exercise on wages in Asia and a number of qualitative case studies in China provides unique, first-hand information on wage practices among suppliers. The results confirm the need to address wage issues using a broad spectrum of wage dimensions, including living wages, minimum wages, social dialogue, payment of working hours and wage development in accordance with prices, enterprise performance and changes in technology and human capital. The `Fair Wage' approach advocated in this book is a first, serious and concerted effort to address the issue of wages, which are increasingly being used as the adjustment variable at the end of the supply chain.Adverse wage developments clearly highlight the limitations of government action in regulating this aspect of the global economy. The ‘Fair Wage’ approach advocated in this book is a first, serious and concerted effort to address this critical issue. It will be required reading for practitioners and scholars of labour economics, development studies and CSR.Trade Review‘In his book Fair Wages, Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead provides a compelling view into how to strengthen CSR by incorporating a wage dimension and a monitoring process in this area. This book is unique in that it thoroughly explores the different wage indicators that have been used to capture a general wage concept, and after noting the main focal points and deficiencies present in each approach, provides us a new holistic fair wage framework of analysis and monitoring tool. . . Fair Wages is grounded in research and is written in a style that makes it accessible to multiple audiences.’ -- Ilyana Albarran, Public Organization Review‘While many economists, policy-makers and commentators often point at negative effects of globalisation on wage inequality and income distribution, few specific proposals have emerged so far. Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead’s book should be commended for proposing a concrete approach for addressing the wage-related dimension of the social issues raised by globalisation.’ -- Pascal Lamy, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland‘Remedies should be brought to the global worrying wage trends so well documented in this book, not only by governments but by employers themselves, out of enlightened self-interest rather than generous benefaction, in the pursuit of the long-term profitability of their companies, through the positive impact that greater fairness exercises have on labour productivity and social peace. This is the line taken by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead in his book on fair wages. Daniel shows that there is still considerable room for tapping the resources of corporate social responsibility: this potential simply must be exploited to the full before anything else, and therefore it must be investigated and publicized the way he does.’ -- D. Mario Nuti, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and formerly of London Business School, UK‘This is an exceptionally important and timely piece of work for the simple reason that it brings to our attention a global crisis - that of unfair wages. In this volume, Daniel provides an excellent analytical framework and tool that can be applied at firm level. I fully expect that the different dimensions of the fair wage proposed in this book will become standard features of company annual wage reviews and of social audits.’ -- Auret Van Heerden, President and CEO, Fair Labour AssociationTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Auret van Heerden Preface Introduction 1. The General Context: Global Wage Trends Part I: Towards a New Wage Policy: The Fair Wage Approach 2. CSR Deficit on Wages 3. Fair Wages: A More Comprehensive and Multidimensional Approach 4. Pilot Testing in Two Suppliers in China Part II: The Fair Wage Approach in Practice 5. First Comprehensive Auditing on Wages 6. Fair Wages within the Crisis Policy Conclusions 7. Towards a Fair Wage Campaign Bibliography Annexes Index

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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 SynopsisThis topical and timely analysis of late career and retirement within nine European societies and the USA examines how social inequality structures have developed in an era of globalization and aging populations. For several decades, many European societies relied on pushing and luring older workers out of employment by using generous early retirement programs in order to relieve national labor markets in times of globalization. However, as this book argues, one of the major challenges facing European and Northern American societies today is their severe demographic aging, which in turn places pension systems under substantial pressure due to the rising imbalance between those claiming pensions and those contributing to the pension system. Indeed, it is observed herein that in the recent past, governments have tried to increase the labor market attachment of older employees by retrenching early retirement benefits. This study investigates how these developments have impacted on the situation of older workers and retirees in nine European societies and the USA. In particular, the book looks at how social inequalities in later life have developed in the light of recent pension reforms.This informative book will appeal to sociologists, demographers, political scientists and economists interested in many different aspects of research including: international comparative research, globalization, labor market, welfare state, social inequality and research on aging. Researchers in the field of retirement and globalization studies will also find this book helpful, as will academics in labor market research and comparative political studies.Trade Review'Welfare states react to globalization and adapt to aging populations by reducing early retirement pathways and public benefits. How have these changes affected the transition to and income situation during retirement? To investigate this crucial question, this eminent international team conducted sophisticated micro-level analyses of retirement patterns and old age inequality across Europe and the USA. For anyone wishing to understand the significant cross-national differences that determine employment precariousness and social inequality in old age, this book is a must-read.' --Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Mannheim, Germany'This timely and important book describes changes over time in employment at older ages, the timing of retirement, and pension income and how these changes correspond with historical demographic, economic, and policy changes. What is especially valuable is that this book gives readers insight into how these dynamics are playing out around the world in countries such as Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.' --Barbara Butrica, Journal of Pensions Economics and FinanceTable of ContentsContents: Preface Foreword Martin Kohli PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market: Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies Sandra Buchholz, Annika Rinklake, Julia Schilling, Karin Kurz, Paul Schmelzer and Hans-Peter Blossfeld PART II: COUNTRY-SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS 2. Increasing Inequalities in Germany: Older People’s Employment Lives and Income Conditions Since the Mid-1980s Annika Rinklake and Sandra Buchholz 3. Late Career Instability and the Transition into Retirement of Older Workers in the Netherlands Maurice Gesthuizen and Maarten H.J. Wolbers 4. Retirement in Italy: Rising Social Inequalities Across Generations Paolo Barbieri and Stefani Scherer 5. Pathways from Work to Retirement and Old Age Inequality in Spain Jonas Radl and Fabrizio Bernardi 6. How ‘Flexicure’ are Older Danes? The Development of Social Inequality in Later Life Since the 1980s Julia Schilling and Mona Larsen 7. Social Inequality in the Late Career and Old Age Income between 1981 and 2007: The Case of the Swedish Welfare State Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist 8. Late Careers in Hungary: Coping with the Transformation from a Socialist to a Market Economy Alberto Veira-Ramos and Erzsébet Bukodi 9. Increasing Social Inequality in Later Life Since the 1980s in Estonia Kadri Täht, Ellu Saar and Marge Unt 10. Income Development of Older People: Consequences of Pension Reforms and Unstable Careers in the UK Paul Schmelzer 11. Late Employment Careers, Transitions to Retirement and Retirement Income in the United States Angela M. O’Rand and Jenifer Hamil-Luker PART III: CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION 12. Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Europe and the US: The Development of Social Inequalities in Times of Globalization and Aging Societies Karin Kurz, Sandra Buchholz, Alberto Veira-Ramos, Annika Rinklake and Hans-Peter Blossfeld Index

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Book SynopsisOver the past decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has helped to improve corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and human rights violations. However, as the author argues in this important new book, the time has now come to incorporate wage issues into CSR. Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead proposes a new methodology, the `Fair Wage' approach, providing CSR actors with a coherent and comprehensive set of fair wage dimensions and indicators. Application of this new approach in a large-scale auditing exercise on wages in Asia and a number of qualitative case studies in China provides unique, first-hand information on wage practices among suppliers. The results confirm the need to address wage issues using a broad spectrum of wage dimensions, including living wages, minimum wages, social dialogue, payment of working hours and wage development in accordance with prices, enterprise performance and changes in technology and human capital. The `Fair Wage' approach advocated in this book is a first, serious and concerted effort to address the issue of wages, which are increasingly being used as the adjustment variable at the end of the supply chain.Adverse wage developments clearly highlight the limitations of government action in regulating this aspect of the global economy. The ‘Fair Wage’ approach advocated in this book is a first, serious and concerted effort to address this critical issue. It will be required reading for practitioners and scholars of labour economics, development studies and CSR.Trade Review‘In his book Fair Wages, Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead provides a compelling view into how to strengthen CSR by incorporating a wage dimension and a monitoring process in this area. This book is unique in that it thoroughly explores the different wage indicators that have been used to capture a general wage concept, and after noting the main focal points and deficiencies present in each approach, provides us a new holistic fair wage framework of analysis and monitoring tool. . . Fair Wages is grounded in research and is written in a style that makes it accessible to multiple audiences.’ -- Ilyana Albarran, Public Organization Review‘While many economists, policy-makers and commentators often point at negative effects of globalisation on wage inequality and income distribution, few specific proposals have emerged so far. Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead’s book should be commended for proposing a concrete approach for addressing the wage-related dimension of the social issues raised by globalisation.’ -- Pascal Lamy, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland‘Remedies should be brought to the global worrying wage trends so well documented in this book, not only by governments but by employers themselves, out of enlightened self-interest rather than generous benefaction, in the pursuit of the long-term profitability of their companies, through the positive impact that greater fairness exercises have on labour productivity and social peace. This is the line taken by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead in his book on fair wages. Daniel shows that there is still considerable room for tapping the resources of corporate social responsibility: this potential simply must be exploited to the full before anything else, and therefore it must be investigated and publicized the way he does.’ -- D. Mario Nuti, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and formerly of London Business School, UK‘This is an exceptionally important and timely piece of work for the simple reason that it brings to our attention a global crisis - that of unfair wages. In this volume, Daniel provides an excellent analytical framework and tool that can be applied at firm level. I fully expect that the different dimensions of the fair wage proposed in this book will become standard features of company annual wage reviews and of social audits.’ -- Auret Van Heerden, President and CEO, Fair Labour AssociationTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Auret van Heerden Preface Introduction 1. The General Context: Global Wage Trends Part I: Towards a New Wage Policy: The Fair Wage Approach 2. CSR Deficit on Wages 3. Fair Wages: A More Comprehensive and Multidimensional Approach 4. Pilot Testing in Two Suppliers in China Part II: The Fair Wage Approach in Practice 5. First Comprehensive Auditing on Wages 6. Fair Wages within the Crisis Policy Conclusions 7. Towards a Fair Wage Campaign Bibliography Annexes Index

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Book Synopsis`This book is unique in its broad coverage of the concept of "division of labour". The variety of contributions highlight the shape of the "division of labour", showing that it is not just limited to the old notions of the degree of the division of labour among productive units, along the lines of Adam Smith, or the degree of specialization amongst countries, along the lines of David Ricardo. The authors use different apertures to present a panoramic and detailed view of contemporary analyses, including not only gender, but also assets, sectors and nations. The book edited by Robert Solow and Jean-Philippe Touffut therefore provides a refreshing new vision on one of the oldest concepts popular in economic analyses.' - Luc Soete, Maastricht University and Director of UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands How is work divided up in the household, within an industry, a nation or between continents? What are the dynamics of the division of labour? The wide-ranging contributions to this book explore these questions from technological, capital and political perspectives. They include in-depth studies of gender, the firm, countries' economic specializations, ICTs, foreign direct investment and agriculture. In this book, ten distinguished contributors - economists, scholars and practitioners - take stock of the shape of the division of labour and provide useful policy recommendations. The Shape of the Division of Labour will interest researchers and students of international economics, labour economics, international trade and finance, as well as economists and public policy advisers and analysts.Trade Review'This book is unique in its broad coverage of the concept of division of labour. The variety of contributions highlight its shape, showing that it is not just limited to the old notions of the degree of the division of labour among productive units, along the lines of Adam Smith, or the degree of specialization amongst countries, along the lines of David Ricardo. Through different lenses, the authors present a panoramic and detailed view of contemporary analyses, including not only gender, but also assets, sectors and nations. The book edited by Robert Solow and Jean-Philippe Touffut therefore provides a refreshing new vision on one of the oldest concepts popular in economic analyses.' --- Luc Soete, Maastricht University and Director of UNU-MERIT, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: The Moving Lines of the Division of Labour Robert M. Solow and Jean-Philippe Touffut 1. The Changing Global Economic Landscape: The Factors that Matter Jan Fagerberg 2. How Global is Foreign Direct Investment and What Can Policymakers Do About It? Stylized Facts, Knowledge Gaps, and Selected Policy Instruments Peter Nunnenkamp 3. Labour Market Frictions as a Source of Comparative Advantage: Implications for Unemployment and Inequality Elhanan Helpman 4. Exports of Knowledge-intensive Services and Manufactures: The Role of ICTs and Intersectoral Linkages Valentina Meliciani 5. How Integrated are Chinese and Indian Labour into the World Economy? Richard N. Cooper 6. The Changing Sexual Division of Labour Shelly Lundberg 7. Round Table Discussions: How Do Nations Adapt to Changes in the Division of Labour? Bina Agarwal, Martin Baily, Jean-Louis Beffa and Robert M. Solow Index

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Book Synopsis`This book is unique in its broad coverage of the concept of "division of labour". The variety of contributions highlight the shape of the "division of labour", showing that it is not just limited to the old notions of the degree of the division of labour among productive units, along the lines of Adam Smith, or the degree of specialization amongst countries, along the lines of David Ricardo. The authors use different apertures to present a panoramic and detailed view of contemporary analyses, including not only gender, but also assets, sectors and nations. The book edited by Robert Solow and Jean-Philippe Touffut therefore provides a refreshing new vision on one of the oldest concepts popular in economic analyses.' - Luc Soete, Maastricht University and Director of UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands How is work divided up in the household, within an industry, a nation or between continents? What are the dynamics of the division of labour? The wide-ranging contributions to this book explore these questions from technological, capital and political perspectives. They include in-depth studies of gender, the firm, countries' economic specializations, ICTs, foreign direct investment and agriculture. In this book, ten distinguished contributors - economists, scholars and practitioners - take stock of the shape of the division of labour and provide useful policy recommendations. The Shape of the Division of Labour will interest researchers and students of international economics, labour economics, international trade and finance, as well as economists and public policy advisers and analysts.Trade Review'This book is unique in its broad coverage of the concept of division of labour. The variety of contributions highlight its shape, showing that it is not just limited to the old notions of the degree of the division of labour among productive units, along the lines of Adam Smith, or the degree of specialization amongst countries, along the lines of David Ricardo. Through different lenses, the authors present a panoramic and detailed view of contemporary analyses, including not only gender, but also assets, sectors and nations. The book edited by Robert Solow and Jean-Philippe Touffut therefore provides a refreshing new vision on one of the oldest concepts popular in economic analyses.' --- Luc Soete, Maastricht University and Director of UNU-MERIT, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: The Moving Lines of the Division of Labour Robert M. Solow and Jean-Philippe Touffut 1. The Changing Global Economic Landscape: The Factors that Matter Jan Fagerberg 2. How Global is Foreign Direct Investment and What Can Policymakers Do About It? Stylized Facts, Knowledge Gaps, and Selected Policy Instruments Peter Nunnenkamp 3. Labour Market Frictions as a Source of Comparative Advantage: Implications for Unemployment and Inequality Elhanan Helpman 4. Exports of Knowledge-intensive Services and Manufactures: The Role of ICTs and Intersectoral Linkages Valentina Meliciani 5. How Integrated are Chinese and Indian Labour into the World Economy? Richard N. Cooper 6. The Changing Sexual Division of Labour Shelly Lundberg 7. Round Table Discussions: How Do Nations Adapt to Changes in the Division of Labour? Bina Agarwal, Martin Baily, Jean-Louis Beffa and Robert M. Solow Index

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Book SynopsisThis book builds on the Marx-Keynes-Schumpeter (MKS) approach to understanding the evolution of capitalism. It does so by focusing on current frameworks that study macro-dynamical systems in the tradition of the Classical, the Neoclassical and the Keynesian interpretation of the working of modern capitalist economies, and of the societies that are built upon them. The distinguished authors concentrate on different paradigms of economic conjecture in terms of their applicability to labor market problems and their implications for growing capitalist economies. They present material clearly related to current macroeconomic research which goes beyond the New Consensus macroeconomics, and which can also be related to the discussion between practitioners and politicians on the reform of both financial and labor markets. A Future for Capitalism will prove a challenging and thought provoking read for heterodox economists and broad-minded mainstream macroeconomists with a special interest in alternatives to general equilibrium macroeconomics.Contents: Introduction Part I: Stabilizing an Unstable Economy: The Challenge in Place 1. Real Financial Market Interactions and the Choice of Policy Measures Part II: Classical Unbalanced Growth and Social Evolution 2. Income Security within the Bounds of the Reserve Army Mechanism 3. Segmented Labor Markets and Low Income Work 4. Atypical Employment and Smooth Factor Substitution Part III: Unemployment and Welfare Issues in Models of Endogenous Growth 5. Economic Growth with an Employer of Last Resort: A Simple Model of Flexicurity Capitalism 6. Economic Policy in a Growth Model with Human Capital, Heterogenous Agents and Unemployment 7. Public Debt, Public Expenditures and Endogenous Growth with Real Wage Rigidities Part IV: The Road to Full-Employment Capitalism 8. Flexicurity: A Baseline Supply Side Model 9. Factor Substitution, Okun s Law and Gradual Wage Adjustments 10. Skill Formation, Heterogeneous Labor and Investment-driven Business Fluctuations 11. Leashing Capitalism: Monetary Fiscal Policy Measures and Labor Market Reforms Some Useful Stability Theorems References IndexTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Stabilizing an Unstable Economy: The Challenge in Place 1. Real–Financial Market Interactions and the Choice of Policy Measures Part II: Classical Unbalanced Growth and Social Evolution 2. Income Security within the Bounds of the Reserve Army Mechanism 3. Segmented Labor Markets and Low Income Work 4. Atypical Employment and Smooth Factor Substitution Part III: Unemployment and Welfare Issues in Models of Endogenous Growth 5. Economic Growth with an Employer of Last Resort: A Simple Model of Flexicurity Capitalism 6. Economic Policy in a Growth Model with Human Capital, Heterogenous Agents and Unemployment 7. Public Debt, Public Expenditures and Endogenous Growth with Real Wage Rigidities Part IV: The Road to Full-Employment Capitalism 8. Flexicurity: A Baseline Supply Side Model 9. Factor Substitution, Okun’s Law and Gradual Wage Adjustments 10. Skill Formation, Heterogeneous Labor and Investment-driven Business Fluctuations 11. Leashing Capitalism: Monetary–Fiscal Policy Measures and Labor Market Reforms Some Useful Stability Theorems References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the ways in which collective bargaining addresses a variety of workplace concerns in the context of today's global economy. Globalization can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, it also puts employment, earnings and labour standards at risk. This book examines the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that workers are able to obtain a fair share of the benefits arising from participation in the global economy and in providing a measure of security against the risk to employment and wages. It focuses on a commonly neglected side of the story and demonstrates the positive contribution that collective bargaining can make to both economic and social goals. The various contributions examine how this fundamental principle and right at work is realized in different countries and how its practice can be reinforced across borders. They highlight the numerous resulting challenges and the critically important role that governments play in rebalancing bargaining power in a global economy. The chapters are written in an accessible style and deal with practical subjects, including employment security, workplace change and productivity, and working time. The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy will prove essential for postgraduate students in industrial and labor relations, human resource management, economics and business studies, as well as industrial relations practitioners and researchers.Trade Review'Susan Hayter has put together a first-rate set of authors and chapters on the positive role collective bargaining and employee voice have to play in the global economy of the twenty-first century. Examples from numerous countries illustrate how negotiation and dialogue can lead to a win-win outcome of improved economic performance and enhanced equality and social justice.' --- Bruce Kaufman, Georgia State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction Susan Hayter 2. Negotiating Employment Security: Innovations and Derogations Steffen Lehndorff and Thomas Haipeter 3. Negotiating Working Time in Fragmented Labour Markets: Realizing the Promise of ‘Regulated Flexibility’ Sangheon Lee and Deirdre McCann 4. Bargaining for Training: Converging or Diverging Interests? Jason Heyes and Helen Rainbird 5. Workplace Change and Productivity: Does Employee Voice Make a Difference? Fathi Fakhfakh, Virginie Pérotin and Andrew Robinson 6. Mind the Gap: Collective Bargaining and Wage Inequality Susan Hayter and Bradley Weinberg 7. Illustrating the Gap: Collective Bargaining and Income Distribution in Chile Gerhard Reinecke and María Elena Valenzuela 8. Collective Bargaining in Transition: Measuring the Effects of Collective Voice in China Chang Hee Lee and Mingwei Liu 9. The Economic Impact of Collective Bargaining Coverage Franz Traxler and Bernd Brandl 10. New Roles for Unions and Collective Bargaining Post the Implosion of Wall Street Capitalism Richard Freeman 11. Globalizing Industrial Relations: What Role for International Framework Agreements? Konstantinos Papadakis 12. Conclusion Susan Hayter Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique four volume set contains the most influential papers in labour economics. The collection is comprehensive and contains the most important theoretical and empirical contributions for understanding the economics of labour. They are a must for researchers, lecturers and students interested in studying the fundamental papers in the field.Trade Review'. . . the editors did a fine job in selecting important and influential papers.' -- Joachim Wagner, KyklosTable of ContentsVOLUME ONE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART I WAGE DETERMINATION 1. Jacob Mincer (1958), ‘Investment in Human Capital and Personal Income Distribution’ 2. Yoram Ben-Porath (1967), ‘The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earnings’ 3. Gary S. Becker and George J. Stigler (1974), ‘Law Enforcement, Malfeasance, and Compensation of Enforcers’ 4. Michael Spence (1973), ‘Job Market Signaling’ 5. James J. Heckman (1976), ‘A Life-Cycle Model of Earnings, Learning, and Consumption’ 6. Edward P. Lazear (1981), ‘Agency, Earnings Profiles, Productivity, and Hours Restrictions’ 7. James K. Medoff and Katharine G. Abraham (1980), ‘Experience, Performance, and Earnings’ 8. Alan B. Krueger and Lawrence H. Summers (1988), ‘Efficiency Wages and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure’ 9. Joshua D. Angrist (1990), ‘Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Records’ 10. Orley Ashenfelter (1978), ‘Estimating the Effect of Training Programs on Earnings’ PART II ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION 11. Robert J. Willis and Sherwin Rosen (1979), ‘Education and Self-Selection’ 12. Thomas E. MaCurdy and John H. Pencavel (1986), ‘Testing between Competing Models of Wage and Employment Determination in Unionized Markets’ 13. James N. Brown and Orley Ashenfelter (1986), ‘Testing the Efficiency of Employment Contracts’ 14. George E. Johnson (1970), ‘The Demand for Labor by Educational Category’ 15. Sherwin Rosen (1968), ‘Short-run Employment Variation on Class-I Railroads in the U.S., 1947-1963’ 16. Lawrence F. Katz and Kevn M. Murphy (1992), ‘Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demands Factors’ 17. Daniel S. Hamermesh (1989), ‘Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs’ 18. Charles Brown, Curtis Gilroy and Andrew Kohen (1982), ‘The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Unemployment’ 19. David Card (1992), ‘Using REGIONAL VARIATION in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage’ VOLUME 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART I UNEMPLOYMENT 1. Dale T. Mortensen (1977), ‘Unemployment Insurance and Job Search Decisions’ 2. Tony Lancaster (1979), ‘Econometric Methods for the Duration o Unemployment’ 3. Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Ronald L. Oaxaca (1976), ‘Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment, and Subsequent Wage Gain’ 4. Robert H. Topel (1983), ‘On Layoffs and Unemployment Insurance’ 5. Gary Solon (1985), ‘Work Incentive Effects of Taxing Unemployment Benefits’ 6. Orley Ashenfelter (1980), ‘Unemployment as Disequilibrium in a Model of Aggregate Labor Supply’ 7. Carl Shapiro and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1984), ‘Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device’ PART II JOB SEARCH, TURNOVER AND MOBILITY 8. Dale T. Mortensen (1970), ‘Job Search, the Duration of Unemployment, and the Phillips Curve’ 9. Boyan Jovanovic (1979), ‘Job Matching and the Theory of Turnover’ 10. Kenneth Burdett (1978), ‘A Theory of Employee Job Search and Quit Rates’ 11. Robert E. Hall and Edward P. Lazear (1984), ‘The Excess Sensitivity of Layoffs and Quits to Demand’ 12. Zvi Griliches (1977), ‘Estimating the Returns to Schooling: Some Econometric Problems’ 13. David Card and Alan B. Krueger (1992), ‘Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States’ 14. Orley Ashenfelter and John Ham (1979), ‘Education, Unemployment, and Earnings’ 15. Joshua D. Angrist and Alan B. Krueger (1991), ‘Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?’ PART III EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS AND CONTRACTS 16. Edward P. Lazear (1979), ‘Why Is There Mandatory Retirement?’ 17. Bengt Holmstrom (1982), ‘Moral Hazard in Teams’ 18. Edward P. Lazear and Sherwin Rosen (1981), ‘Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts’ 19. Kevn J. Murphy (1985), ‘Corporate Performance and Managerial Remuneration: An Empirical Analysis’ 20. James N. Brown (1989), ‘Why Do Wages Increase with Tenure? On-the-Job Training and Life-Cycle Wage Growth Observed Within Firms’ VOLUME 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART I DISCRIMINATION AND THE BLACK-WHITE WAGE CAP 1. Kenneth J. Arrow (1973), ‘The Theory of Discrimination’ 2. Dennis J. Aigner and Glen G. Cain (1977), ‘Statistical Theories of Discrimination in Labor Markets’ 3. Barbara R. Bergmann (1971), ‘The Effect on White Incomes of Discrimination in Employment’ 4. Orley Ashenfelter (1972), ‘Racial Discrimination and Trade Unionism’ 5. Ronald Oaxaca (1973), ‘Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markers’ 6. Jonathan S. Leonard (1984), ‘The Impact of Affirmative Action on Employment’ 7. James P. Smith and Finis R. Welch (1989), ‘Black Economic Progress After Myrdal’ PART II COMPENSATING WAGE DIFFERENTIALS 8. Sherwin Rosen (1974), ‘Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition’ 9. John M. Abowd and Orley Ashenfelter (1981), ‘Anticipated Unemployment, Temporary Layoffs, and Compensating Wage Differentials’ 10. Robert S. Smith (1979), ‘Compensating Wage Differentials and Public Policy: A Review’ 12. Nicholas M. Kiefer and George R. Neumann (1979), ‘An Empirical Job-Search Model, with a Test of the Constant Reservation-Wage Hypothesis’ 13. Katharine G. Abraham and Henry S. Farber (1987), ‘Job Duration, Seniority, and Earnings’ 14. Joseph G. Altonji and Robert A. Shakotko (1987), ‘Do Wages Rise with Job Seniority?’ PART III UNIONS, ARBITRATION AND THE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES 15. Albert Rees (1963), ‘The Effects of Unions on Resource Allocation’ 16. Richard B. Freeman (1980), ‘The Exit-Voice Tradeoff in the Labor Marker: Unionism, Job Tenure, Quits, and Separations’ 17. Orley Ashenfelter and George E. Johnson (1969), ‘Bargaining Theory, Trade Unions, and Industrial Strike Activity’ 18. David Card (1990), ‘Strikes and Wages: A Test of an Asymmetric Information Model’ 19. Henry S. Farber (1978), ‘Individual Preferences and Union Wage Determination: The Case of the United Mine Workers’ 20. Henry S. Farber (1983), ‘The Determination of the Union Status of Workers’ 21. Richard B. Freeman (1984), ‘Longitudinal Analyses of the Effects of Trade Unions’ 22. John M. Abowd (1989), ‘The Effect of Wage Bargains on the Stock Market Value of the Firm’ 23. Ian M. McDonald and Robert M. Solow (1981), ‘Wage Bargaining and Employment’ 24. George E. Johnson (1990), ‘Work Rules, Featherbedding, and Pareto-optimal Union-Management Bargaining’ 25. Janet Currie and Sheena McConnell (1991), ‘Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: The Effect of Legal Structure on Dispute Costs and Wages’ VOLUME 4 PART I LABOR SUPPLY 1. Orley Ashenfelter and James Heckman (1974), ‘The Estimation of Income and Substitution Effects in a Model of Family Labor Supply’ 2. James Heckman (1974), ‘Shadow Prices, Market Wages, and Labor Supply’ 3. Reuben Gronau (1977), ‘Leisure, Home Production, ad Work - the Theory of the Allocation of Time Revisited’ 4. Thomas E. MaCurdy (1981), ‘An Empirical Model of Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Setting’ 5. Joseph G. Altonji (1986), ‘Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Supply: Evidence from Micro Data’ 6. Orley Ashenfelter (1983), ‘Determining Participation in Income-Tested Social Programs’ 7. John C. Ham (1986), ‘Testing whether Unemployment Represents Intertemporal Labour Supply Behaviour’ 8. Thomas A. Mroz (1987), ‘The Sensitivity of an Empirical Model of Married Women’s Hours of Work to Economic and Statistical Assumptions’ PART II LABOR DEMAND 9. Walter Y. Oi (1962), ‘Labor as a Quasi-Fixed Factor’ 10. Thomas J. Sargent (1978), ‘Estimation of Dynamic Labor Demand Schedules under Rational Expectations’ 11. David Card (1990), ‘Unexpected Inflation, Real Wages, and Employment Determination in Union Contracts’ 11. Charles Brown (1980), ‘Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market’ 12. Jennifer Roback (1982), ‘Wages, Rents, and the Quality of Life’ PART III MIGRATION 13. Jacob Mincer (1978), ‘Family Migration Decisions’ 14. George J. Borjas (1985), ‘Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants’ 15. George J. Borjas (1987), ‘Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants’ 16. Barry R. Chiswick (1978), ‘The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men’

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Book SynopsisCapitalism With a Human Face is a carefully edited selection of Samuel Brittan’s most important recent essays. It covers topics ranging from utilitarianism and the ethics of self-interest, to the principles of macroeconomic policy and how to price people into work without throwing them into poverty. The book will be controversial, for the individualistic ethic, which it is so fashionable to attack, is not merely defended but celebrated. This collection will be of special interest both to readers of Samuel Brittan’s articles who would like a more extended treatment and those new to his work. A notable feature is a specially written introduction explaining how the author came to take up political economy and how he arrived at the positions elaborated in this book.Trade Review’Any society with aspirations to egalitarianism would long since have abolished Samuel Brittan. He writes the best weekly economics column, elegant in style and provocative in content. He covers a range of subjects to a depth that should shame those of us who can cope only by concentrating on a narrow topic. He finds time to attend seminars where, inevitably, he asks the penetrating questions the speaker most dreads. He writes important books. He manages to display in the course of a few minutes more courage in challenging those to whom he might look for favours than most of us can summon in a lifetime. He is that rare British creature: an intellectual.’Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Footfalls in the Memory (Intellectual Autobiography) Part I: Political Economy Part II: Keynes and Hayek Part III: Jobs, Inflation and Economic Management Part IV: Problems and Policies Part V: Capitalism with a Human Face Finale: Some Presumptions of Economic Liberalism

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Book SynopsisEuropean economic and monetary union creates a new environment for pay determination. The Single Market will boost competition in many sectors, and the integration of European capital will transform patterns of labour relations and pay fixing. Written by a distinguished group of authors from across the Community, this important new book deals with the key issues of pay and employment, wage differentiation within the Community, firms’ location decisions, centralised pay bargaining and lower inflation, new payment systems to boost productivity, and pay and unemployment in Southern Europe.The conclusion accepts the likely benefits of the Single Market, but argues for pay policies to help labour markets adapt. This means greater co-ordination of economic policies and measures to prevent an increase of inequality that could threaten the Community's cohesion. It stresses the need for nationally differentiated policies that enable all member countries to succeed within the Single Market.

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Book SynopsisStudies in Labor Supply, the second volume of Jacob Mincer's essays to be published in this series, focuses on the family context of labor supply especially that of women. Special attention is devoted to wage incentives and wage consequences of labor supply and to long term trends in the female labor force, a major social phenomenon of the twentieth century.Jacob Mincer's research reveals a rare combination of imaginative empirical analysis guided by a command of theory. His work and professional style have set the standard for empirical economics. This is especially true of his work on the labor force participation of married women.This is the second of two volumes containing carefully edited selections of Professor Mincer's most important essays, some of which are published here for the first time. Introductions to each volume provide overviews of the interconnections of the topics discussed, their conceptual coherence and empirical significance. Studies in Human Capital, the first volume of Professor Mincer's essays, is also available as part of this series.Table of ContentsPart l Labour supply in the family context: labour force participation of married women; market prices, opportunity costs, and income effects; trends in labour force participation; labour force participation and unemployment. Part 2 Labour supply, human capital, and the gender wage gap: family investments in human capital - earnings of women; interrupted work careers; family migration decisions; education and unemployment of women; intercountry comparisons of labour force trends. Part 3 Labour supply with wage floors: unemployment effects of minimum wages; union effects - wages, turnover, and job training; the economics of wage floors.

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Book SynopsisStudies in Human Capital, the first volume of Jacob Mincer's essays to be published in this series, assesses the impact of education and job training on wage growth. It offers an authoritative study of the effects of human capital investments on labor turnover and the impact of technological change on human capital formation.Jacob Mincer's research reveals a rare combination of imaginative empirical analysis guided by a command of theory. His work and professional style have set the standard for empirical economics, especially in the field of labor economics where he has made major contributions to the understanding of the determinants of earnings.This is the first of two volumes containing carefully edited selections of professor Mincer's most important essays, some of which are published here for the first time. Introductions to each volume provide overviews of the interconnections of the topics discussed, their conceptual coherence and empirical significance. Studies in Labor Supply, the second volume of Professor Mincer's essays, is also available as part of this series.Trade Review'. . . Jacob Mincer is a master of his trade, and this mastery is no less evident in the current volume. . . Especially interesting in this volume are the four previously unpublished papers which address a range of issues including the relationship between education and unemployment; the relationship between job training and labour turnover; and the time-series evidence relating to the relationship between human capital technology and wage structure. Although previously unpublished, these papers demonstrate quite clearly the combination of technical skill and insight which characterizes Mincer's work, and their collection together between a single pair of covers is a fact that I am sure will be welcomed by teachers, researchers and students of labour economics alike.' -- D. Sapsford, Education Economics'The books should. . . . be bought by every university library. The research reported here is important, the exposition is lucid, the sequencing of chapters is sensible and the retrospective aspect of the volumes provides a fascinating insight into the working methods of one of the great economists of our time.' -- Geraint Johnes, International Journal of Manpower'During the past thirty-odd years, Jacob Mincer has been one of the most important contributors both to the field of human capital and the labor supply of women. I strongly recommend these two volumes for the superb empirical research guided by insightful theory.' -- Gary Becker, University of Chicago, US'Jacob Mincer is, with Gary Becker and T.W. Schultz, one of the founding figures of human capital theory. His major contributions to labour economics over 35 years are handsomely reflected in the two volumes of this collection. . . . this is a most useful collection: it gathers together in convenient form papers which it would be impossible to track down in most university libraries. Tell your librarian to place an order.' -- J.R. Shackleton, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsPart 1 Human capital and earnings: investment in human capital and personal income distribution; the distribution of labour incomes; human capital and earnings. Part 2 Human capital, wage growth, labour turnover and unemployment: on the job training - costs, returns and some implications; labour mobility and wages; wage changes in job changes; education and unemployment; job training, wage growth and labour turnover; job training - costs, returns and wage profiles. Part 2 Technology and the demand for human capital: human capital and economic growth; wage structures and labour turnover in the United States and Japan; human capital responses to technological change in the labour market; human capital, technology and the wage structure.

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Book SynopsisTourism is frequently seen as a way of creating new employment opportunities in those regions which have suffered from severe de-industrialization and major cutbacks in manufacturing industry.This important book - based on new and original research - examines the economic impact, measured in employment terms, of the North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish. The authors provide a detailed assessment of the direct, indirect and induced employment generated by the museum. The assessment of the museum's employment impact is placed firmly within the context of its historical development and of the region's tourism activity.Tourism, Museums and the Local Economy focuses on one particular museum, but the methodology and much of the discussion are widely applicable to the evaluation of other tourist attractions. The policy implications of the study are fully assessed by the authors who also make use of a series of international comparisons. The book will be of interest to economists, geographers and all those who have an interest in tourism, the arts and museums, and regional development. It will be an invaluable asset to planners and policymakers at both central and local government level.Trade Review'Tourism, Museums and the Local Economy offers some lessons to tourism managers and scholars. It will be a good addition to research collections in economics, regional development and public policy.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. The Purpose of the Study 2. The Development of the Museum 3. The Labour Force at Beamish 4. The Museum’s Employment Impact 5. Visitor Demand 6. Employment Potential

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Book SynopsisHow far can efficiency be pursued without sacrificing equity? Do fiscal changes designed to improve incentives necessarily lead to greater inequality of incomes? Does the profitability of ‘big business’ really reflect economies of scale and scope or is it also a reflection of market power? In addressing these and other key questions, a group of internationally acclaimed economists demonstrates why issues of concentration and inequality in economic life are moving to the top of the political agenda in the 1990s. Drawing upon the pioneering work of Peter Hart, this volume reflects the range of his influence from theoretical examinations of measures of industrial concentration and income inequality, to detailed empirical explorations of changes in concentration over time. The volume includes essays on, among other issues, the Hart measure of income mobility, income distribution in Eastern Europe, the UK state pension scheme, trends in the concentration of UK manufacturing in the 1980s, the EC Merger Control Regulation, corporate research and development strategies and corporate technological specialization in international industries.Industrial Concentration and Economic Inequality will be particularly relevant for government policy makers, social analysts and economists concerned with income distribution and industrial policy.Trade Review’This is a collection of thoughtful, though fairly technical, articles connected by the research interests of Peter Hart.’ -- Linda Hesselman, The Business EconomistTable of ContentsPart 1 Income inequality: on the Hart measure of income mobility, Anthony F. Shorrocks; the distribution of income in Eastern Europe, A.B. Atkinson and John Micklewright; wage rate mobility and measurement errors - an application to Swedish panel data, N. Anders Klevmarken; higher education - grants, taxation and lifetime inequality, John Creedy and Patrick Francois; will younger cohorts obtain a worse deal from the UK state pension scheme?, Richard Disney and Edward Whitehouse. Part 2 Industrial concentration: are industrial economists still interested in concentration?, Michael Waterson; trends in concentration in UK manufacturing, Michael Utton; merger appraisal under the EC merger control regulation, Eleanor J. Morgan; corporate research and development strategies - the influence of firm, industry and country factors on the decentralization of research and development, Mark Casson and Satwinder Singh; corporate technological specialization in international industries, John Cantwell.

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Book SynopsisThis important new book is the first specific study on the classical theory of wages to appear for more than 50 years and as such fills an important gap in the literature. Antonella Stirati argues that the wage-fund theory played no part in the theory of wages expounded by Ricardo and his predecessors. Classical wage theory is shown to be analytically consistent but very different from contemporary theory, particularly as it did not envisage an inverse relationship between employment and the real wage level, and hence a spontaneous tendency to full employment of labour. The author bases her approach not only on a reinterpretation of Smith and Ricardo, but also on the writings of Turgot, Necker, Steuart, Hume, Cantillon and other pre-classical economists.Historians of economic thought as well as other economists will welcome Dr Stirati's careful analysis of classical writings on economics which includes simple but rigorous explanations of phenomena, central to current economic debate, such as the occurrence of persistent unemployment.Trade Review'. . . there is much is Stirati's discussion of the natural wage which is of interest, and she explores quite carefully the role of institutional, cultural and social factors in the determination of the long-run wage rate.' -- John Vint, Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtTable of ContentsLabour supply and demand, unemployment, natural wage - some definitions; wages in the English economic literature in the late 17th and early 18th century; the theory of wages in Adam Smith and in his contemporaries, J. Steuart, A.R.J. Turgot and J. Necker; theories of population form Cantillon to Ricardo; the theory of wages in David Ricardo; wages and the labour market in classical political economy, summary and comparison with other approaches.

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Book SynopsisThis important book presents in one volume the most important articles and papers on three key issues in modern labor economics: the dynamics of labour demand, the related adjustment costs, and the effects of employment security policies.The poor employment performance of many of the industrialized countries in the 1970s and '80s has led to a dramatic growth of interest in the dynamics of labor demand and an outpouring of related policy initiatives in the European Community. In the United States, the erosion of the employment-at-will doctrine promises to arouse a similar growth of interest. This comprehensive reference collection brings together the seminal papers in this field, showing how the theory of labour demand dynamics and empirical analysis can be linked to the study of job security policies and their consequences.Dynamic Labor Demand and Adjustment Costs will be an invaluable resource for students of microeconomics, labour economics and macroeconomics, as well as policy analysts concerned with job security and employment.Trade Review'The value of this book must lie in its selection of papers, the convenience of having them altogether and the introduction and commentary from the editors. . . . a useful collection for libraries to have. . .' -- S. Burgess, International Journal of ManpowerTable of ContentsPROVISIONAL CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART I: SIZE AND STRUCTURE OF ADJUSTMENT COSTS W. Y. Oi (1962), ‘Labor as a Quasi-fixed Factor’ PART II: dynamic theories of labor demand f. p. r. Brechling (1965), ‘The Relationship Between Output and Employment in British Manufacturing Industries’ J. A. Fay and J. L. Medoff (1985), ‘Labor and Output Over the Business Cycle: Some Direct Evidence’ D. Hamermesh (1989), ‘Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs’ S. M. Burgess and J. J. Dolado (1989), ‘Intertemporal Rules with Variable Speed of Adjustment: An Application to U.K. Manufacturing Employment’ T. J. Sargent (1978), ‘Estimation of Dynamic Labor Demand Schedules under Rational Expectations’ PART III: DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF INTERRELATED FACTOR DEMANDS M. Nadiri and S. Rosen (1969), ‘Interrelated Factor Demand Functions’ R. I. D. Harris (1975), ‘Interrelated Demand for Factors of Production in the U.K. Engineering Industry, 1968-81’ R. H. Topel (1982), ‘Inventories, Layoffs and the Short-run Demand for Labor’ M. D. Shapiro (1986), ‘The Dynamic Demand for Capital and Labor’ PART V: FACTOR DEMAND AND EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION D. Hamermesh (1988), ‘The Demand for Workers and Hours and the Effects of Job Security Policies: Theory and Evidence’ S. M. Burgess (1988), ‘Employment Adjustment in U.K. Manufacturing’ K. G. Abraham and S. N. Houseman (1989), ‘Job Security and Work Force Adjustment: How Different Are U.S. and Japanes Practices? G. Bertola (1990), ‘Job Security, Employment and Wages’

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together the most innovative and important work on implicit contract theory, a key area of research which has developed over the past 20 years. Implicit contract theory is concerned with the workings of the macro-labour market over business cycles and focuses on a series of key questions including, how economists can explain unemployment levels and employment fluctuations during recessions in terms of rational economic behaviour, and, why wages do not fall to clear the market.Table of ContentsCONTENTS PART 1 BASIC IDEAS 1. Costas Azariadis (1975), ‘Implicit Contracts and Underemployment Equilibria’ 2. Martin Neil Baily (1974), ‘Wages and Employment under Uncertain Demand’ 3. Donald F Gordon (1974), ‘A Neo-Classical Theory of Keynesian Unemployment’ 4. Clive Bull (1987), ‘The Existence of Self-Enforcing Implicit Contracts’ PART 2 EMPIRICAL BACKGROUND: TEMPORARY LAYOFFS AND JOB DURATION 5. Martin S. Feldstein (1975), ‘The Importance of Temporary Layoffs: An Empirical Analysis’ 6. David M. Lilien (1980), ‘The Cyclical Pattern of Temporary Layoffs in United States Manufacturing’ 7. Robert E.Hall (1982), ‘The Importance of Lifetime Jobs in the U. S. Economy’ PART 3 THE IMPORTANCE OF WAGE AND PRICE RIGIDITY 8. Robert J.Gordon (1982), ‘Why U. S. Wage and Employment Behaviour Differs from that in Britain and Japan’ 9. Dennis W. Carlton (1986), ‘The Rigidity of Prices’ PART 4 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION 10. Martin Feldstein (1978), ‘The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Temporary Layoff Unemployment’ 11. Robert H. Topel (1983), ‘On Layoffs and Unemployment Insurance’ PART 5 CRITIQUE AND EXTENSIONS 12. George A .Akerlof and Hajime Miyazaki (1980), ‘The Implicit Contract Theory of Unemployment Meets the Wage Bill Argument’ 13. Tomio Kinoshita (1987), ‘Working Hours and Hedonic Wages in the Market Equilibrium’ 14. Richard Rogerson (1988), ‘Indivisible Labor, Lotteries and Equilibrium’ 15. Gary D. Hansen (1985), ‘Indivisible Labor and the Business Cycle’ PART 6 PRIVATE INFORMATION 16. V. V. Chari (1983), ‘Involuntary Unemployment and Implicit Contracts’ 17. Jerry Green and Charles M. Kahn (1983), ‘Wage-Employment Contracts’ 18. Sanford J. Grossman and Oliver D. Hart (1983), ‘Implicit Contracts under Asymmetric Information’ PART 7 INTEGRATION AND ASSESSMENTS 19. Oliver D. Hart (1983), ‘Optimal Labour Contracts under Asymmetric Information: An Introduction’ 20. Sherwin Rosen (1985), ‘Implicit Contracts: A Survey’ PART 8 RELATED APPROACHES 21. Ian M. McDonald and Robert M .Solow (1981), ‘Wage Bargaining and Employment’ 22. Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower (1988), ‘Cooperation, Harassment, and Involuntary Unemployment: An Insider-Outside Approach’ 23. Carl Shapiro and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1984), ‘Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device’

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Book SynopsisIn this important book, Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy assess the impact of the profit rate on modern economies, its role in the allocation of resources among industries, its influence on business fluctuations, and its relation to accumulation, technological change and wages.The Economics of the Profit Rate presents a broad synthesis of recent work and builds on classical theory, using the tools of modern economics, to suggest alternative approaches to conventional microeconomics and macroeconomics. In sharp contrast to the general equilibrium theory, the emphasis is placed on dynamics and the reaction of individual agents to disequilibrium. This impressive book includes an assessment of the history of the US economy in which theoretical and empirical analyses are consistently combined.Trade Review'This treatise should be read by Sraffian, post Keynesian, Kaleckian, Marxian, and even Walrasian economists interested in deeper theory and more extensive empirical work.'Table of ContentsPart 1 The profit rate: the economics of the profit rate - a summary; definitions and measures of the profit rate. Part 2 Competition and prices of production: prices of production; long-term equilibrium in classical and Walrasian models; the classical analysis of competition; convergence? Part 3 General disequilibrium: a general disequilibrium model; development of the basic model; proportions and dimension in the short and long terms; out of the mainstream. Part 4 Stability and business fluctuations: the real and monetary determinants of macro (in)stability; the impact of the profit rate on the macroeconomy; business fluctuations in other paradigms. Part 5 Technology and distribution - a historical perspective: the historical profile of the profit rate; historical tendencies; accumulation and growth; profitability trends. Part 6 History: profitability and management; a chronological overview; the historical dynamics of capitalism.

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Book SynopsisThe role of the peasant has been a major theme for agricultural economists throughout the ages. 'Irrational' decision-making among peasants was as likely to worry scholars in medieval Islam as in twentieth-century Brazil or eighteenth-century France. The efficiency of smallholdings as units of production was as important in nineteenth-century Germany and Mexico as in twentieth-century India and sub-Saharan Africa.In The Peasant in Economic Thought, a distinguished group of scholars examines the role of the peasant in agricultural economies from a variety of cultural and disciplinary perspectives. Beginning with a paper on the peasant proprietor in classical economics, the volume continues with work on Friedrich List, Thomas Robert Malthus and Thomas Chalmers, J.S. Mill and the Hutterites of Manitoba, rent in Fabian economics, and the peasant in nineteenth century Mexican liberal thought. Later papers focus on the Brazilian peasantry in nineteenth century economic thought, land in Medieval Islamic thought and decision-making in contemporary African peasant households.Economists, historians and environmentalists trace lines of influence - centring on John Stuart Mill's liberalism and Auguste Comte's positivism - which affected debate in England, Latin America, Canada, India and sub-Saharan Africa.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Peaseant Proprietor in Classical Economics 2. Friedrich List and the German Peasantry: Early German Liberal Economic Thought and Practice 3. Peasants, Population and Progress in Malthus and Chalmers 4. Manitoba Hutteries and J.S. Mill: A Comparison in Cooperation 5. The Theory of Rent in Fabian Economics 6. Peasants in Nienteenth-Century Mexican Liberal Thought 7. Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought on Brazilian Peasantry and Twentieth-Century Consequences 8. Land and Contractual Arrangements in Medieval Islamic Thought 9. Classical Model of Decision-Making in Contemporary African Peasant Households Index

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Book SynopsisIncreasing international competition has put improvements in vocational training at the top of many nations' political agendas. This important book explores the economic analysis of training and relates it to the differing systems found in Western Europe and the United States. After an examination of the theoretical basis for increased emphasis on training the authors present a comparative analysis of the different systems employed in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. A number of common issues and problems are discussed, such as the relationship between schooling and training, the role of continuing training, retraining for the unemployed, and the position of women and disadvantaged groups in the labour market. A central theme is the differing policies pursued by governments. While recognizing the common concern with potential market failure in training, the authors also draw attention to the poor record of government-funded training in practice and to the dangers of excessive intervention as a result of pressure group activity. Although primarily aimed at students and teachers of economics, business studies and industrial relations, Training for Employment in Western Europe and the United States will be of interest to practitioners and all those concerned with policy issues arising in the training field.Trade Review'. . . a major strength of the book is its breadth of coverage. . . this is an interesting book, containing a wealth of information, which would serve as a useful introduction to the area for students, academics and practitioners. . .' -- S. Bradley, Education Economics'Economics students will find this a helpful synthesis of important issues relating to the economics of training.' -- Sonia C. Carey, Work, Employment and Society

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Book SynopsisThis timely volume features essays from an international group of economists which address issues relating to the objective of securing full employment. The contributors adopt a politicP>As well as offering a detailed empirical investigation of the unemployment experience in advanced countries, the book makes a critical evaluation of New Right economic policy making in the UK and the US, and examines the main international and domestic obstacles to the achievement of full employment, the prospects for job creation in the UK, and the impact of technological change.Trade Review’This is a collection of good papers addressing one of the compelling issues of our time.’Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Obstacles to, and Strategies for, the Achievement of Full Employment 1. Obstacles to Full Employment in Capitalist Economies 2. Technological Unemployment 3. Assessing the Costs of Inflation and Unemployment 4. Thatcherism and Unemployment in the UK 5. Unemployment, Job Creation and Job Destruction in the UK Since 1979 6. Restructuring, Flexibility and the New Right in the US: the Political Economy of Plutocracy 7. High Wages, Enlightened Management and Economic Productivity 8. Wage-employment Determination in a Post-Keynesian World 9. Unemployment Experience and the Institutional Preconditions for Full Employment 10. Lessons from the Experience of the Swedish Model 11. Corporatism in Australia 12. Economic Development in the Industrialized Countries and the Prospects for Full Employment 13. European Monetary Integration and Unemployment in the Periphery Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative history offers a major assessment of British industrial relations between the outbreak of the Second World War and the advent of Margaret Thatcher's government in 1979.Written by a group of leading specialists, this outstanding book examines the role of the government, the unions and employers, the influence of social welfare considerations on industrial relations policies and the patterns of strikes. Case studies focus on industrial relations in the docks, the motor manufacturing industry and road haulage between 1945 and 1979. A History of British Industrial Relations, 1939-1979 is both an up-to-date survey and a substantial addition to the literature which includes several chapters based upon new research. As well as revealing the complexities of British industrial relations in these four decades, the book also includes consideration of the extent to which, if at all, problems of industrial relations adversely affected the performance of the British economy.Trade Review'. . . provides the reader with an interesting range of studies from broad discussions of labour management and institutional development to more specific case studies which include such key example as the automobile industry.'Table of Contents1. The Second World War and state intervention in industrial relations 1939-45 (Chris Wrigley); 2. Labour and the law: The politics of industrial relations 1945-79 (Patrick Maguire); 3. Trade union development 1945-79 (Chris Wrigley); 4. The management of labour (Howard Gospel); 5. Industrial relations and social welfare 1945-79 (Noel Whiteside); 6. Strikes in post war Britain; 7. Decasualisaton and disruption: industrial relations in the docks 1945-79 (Jim Phillips); 8. The car industry 1945-79: shop stewards and workplace unionism (Dave Lyddon); 9. The road haulage industry 1945-79: from statutory regulation to contested terrain (Paul Smith).

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Book SynopsisThese two volumes bring together theoretical and empirical papers on the economics of training. The first volume comprises of papers that discuss the economic theory underlying firms' and individuals' decisions to provide or acquire training. In particular, they offer differing perspectives on human capital theory. This volume also includes papers examining the design of both experimental and nonexperimental strategies for estimating the effects of training. The second volume consists of studies that estimate the impact of both public and private provided training on earnings. Most of the volume is devoted to studies that illustrate nonexperimental evaluations of training. However, because experiments have become an important part of this literature, the volume includes papers that provide a detailed evaluation of one well-known social experiment, and that use experiments to evaluate the non-experimental evaluations of training.Trade Review'These two volumes deliver what the title promises - a large collection of important papers on the economics of training. . . These volumes will be important acquisitions for reference libraries. Researchers with an interest in the economics of training will want these books. I am very pleased that a copy has come my way. . .' -- G. Makepeace, Education EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Introduction Part I: Theoretical Considerations Part II: Measurement Issues Index • Volume II: Part I: Surveys of the Impacts of Training Part II: Public Sector Training A. Experimental Evaluations B. Nonexperimental Evaluations Part III: Private Sector Training A. Evidence from the United States B. Evidence from the the United Kingdom Part IV: Evaluating the Evaluations Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of Malcolm Sawyer's essays develops the post Keynesian analyses of unemployment, imperfect competition and macroeconomics. This important volume focuses on the causes of unemployment, a central concern of contemporary post Keynesian economics whose origins can be dated from the response to the high levels of unemployment during the 1930s. After explaining why conventional economic analysis cannot properly comprehend the phenomenon of unemployment, Professor Sawyer's book explores the relationship between demand-side and supply-side causes and argues for the relevance of both for the analysis of unemployment. Other issues discussed include the relationship between macroeconomics and imperfect competition, the post Keynesian approach to pricing and post Keynesian perspectives on industrial economics.Unemployment, Imperfect Competition and Macroeconomics, critically but sympathetically, evaluates and extends the contribution of post Keynesian analysis, and discusses the problems which those analyses face. Bringing together contributions from a major scholar working in this field, the book will be welcomed by all those interested in the post Keynesian approach and the contributions it can make to economic analysis.Trade Review'A first-class collection of essays from a noted scholar in this field, which develops the post Keynesian analyses of these topics.' -- Aslib Book Guide'These essays provide an informed view of the state of post Keynesian economics.' -- G.R. Steele, International Journal of Manpower'Malcolm Sawyer is the second sort of economist par excellence. Industrious, humane, lucid, he gets on with the job without any fuss at all. . . . Those who wish to know how modern economies actually work, especially with regard to pricing, distribution and unemployment, and who most contributed in realistic ways to our understanding, need go no further than, Unemployment, Imperfect Competition and Macroeconomics. It is a model of relevance, clarity, generosity to others and basic human decency.' -- G.C. Harcourt, The Manchester SchoolTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Unemployment and the Dismal Science 3. Post Keynesian Macroeconomics: A Survey 4. Post Keynesian Economics: the State of the Art 5. Conflict and Aggregate Demand in Post Keynesian Economics: the Problem of Over-Determinacy 6. The Relationship Between Imperfect Competition and Macroeconomic Analysis 7. On the Relationship Between Keynes’s Macroeconomic Analysis and theories of imperfect Competition 8. On the Origins of Post Keynesian Pricing Theory and Macroeconomics 9. Post Keynesian Analysis and Industrial Economics 10. Prices, Pricing, Capacity Utilisation and Unemployment in the Post Keynesian Traditions Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the industrialized and developing world, education and training are regarded as paramount to economic growth, but this view is rarely questioned or analysed. This major book is an in-depth multi-disciplinary investigation of the link between modern economies and education and training systems.Education, Training and the Global Economy takes issue with the notion that simply more or better education and training will inevitably bring economic success. The authors examine theoretical approaches to education and training before surveying empirical data and our knowledge of current skills trends in the global economy. The institutional and historical determinants of routes to low or high skill formation in industrialized economies are thoroughly considered. Particular attention is paid to the new routes to skill formation found in the dynamic Pacific Rim economies.This book will be welcomed by researchers, policymakers and students concerned with training, education and labour economics.Trade Review'This is a very important book. It debunks the "Say's Law" of education which is so popular now among free market enthusiasts: that the supply of educated people automatically creates the demand necessary to employ it. The authors show that for the educated to excel requires a carefully cultivated socio-economic and political environment.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction and Overview: Capitalism and Skill Formation 2. Education, Training and Industrialized Economies 3. Education, Training and Economic Performance: the Empirical Evidence 4. Global Economic Transformation and Skill Trends 5. A Theory of Skill Formation Systems 6. The Low-Skills Route 7. The High-Skills Routes 8. Conclusion: A Framework for Policy Analysis Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade, Markets and Welfare brings together a selection of Kelvin Lancaster's seminal work on trade under monopolistic competition and oligopoly with differentiated products, as well as recent extensions to the analysis of markets in which the characteristics of products can be varied freely. Professor Lancaster argues that protection can sometimes improve world welfare, that there can be mutual trade gains between absolutely identical economies, and that entries of an additional firm may sometimes increase industry profits. The selection also includes some of Professor Lancaster's earlier works on trade and papers on several topics related to the theory of economic policy, including second best theory, wages policy, and a simple dynamic game model of capitalist growth.Trade, Markets and Welfare complements the first volume of Kelvin J. Lancaster's selected essays - Modern Consumer Theory - by expanding applications of consumer choice theory into new areas.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: Trade 2. Intra-Industry Trade under Perfect Monopolistic Competition 3. Protection and Product Differentiation 4. Multi-Product Defensive Monopoly in an Open Economy 5. The “Product Variety’ Case for Protection 6. The Heckscher–Ohlin Trade Model 7. Protection and Real Wages Part II: Markets 8. Innovative Entry: Profit Hidden beneath the Zero 9. Product Differentiation in Two-Tiered Industries 10. Information and Product Differentiation 11. The Economics of Product Variety Part III: Welfare 12. The General Theory of Second Best 13. Strategic Considerations in Second Best 14. Productivity-Geared Wage Policies 15. The Dynamic Inefficiency of Capitalism References Index

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