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Springer International Publishing AG The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic
Book SynopsisThis handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines and from around the world to examine the history, characteristics, effects, viability and implementation of basic income. The first edition of this book contributed a comprehensive treatment of multiple aspects of the basic income debate. This updated, expanded edition tackles new topics that are becoming increasingly prominent in the global debate. New chapters are devoted to recent research on the history of basic income; the development and peacemaking potential of basic income in conflict zones; municipal experiments in the United States; requirements for pilot projects and experiments; and the public health implications of basic income. Existing chapters on the implementation of basic income have also been substantially updated to take account of new research on microsimulation, land value tax, local currencies, and blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, along with new material on the increasing use of opinion polls and the difficulties related to that. New political and ethical perspectives on the role of trade unions and their increasing engagement with the basic income debate are also introduced, while the section on pilot projects and experiments has been updated to cover recent political developments. Fully updated to reflect new global developments in the basic income debate, this handbook will be of interest to researchers, teachers and research-oriented policymakers in a range of fields. Table of ContentsPart I: Introductory chapters.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The definition and characteristics of Basic Income.- Chapter 3: A short history of the Basic Income idea.- Part II: Some of the likely effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 4: Employment market effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 5: Social effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 6: The health case for Basic Income.- Chapter 7: Some effects of Basic Income on economic variables.- Chapter 8: Ecological effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 9: The gender effects of a Basic Income.- Chapter 10: Basic Income for development and peacebuilding in post-conflict settings.- Part III: The feasibility and implementation of Basic Income.- Chapter 11: Feasibility and implementation.- Chapter 12: Alternative funding methods.- Chapter 13: Analysis of the financial effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 14: Public opinion on Basic Income: What have we learnt so far?.- Chapter 15: Alternatives to Basic Income.- Part IV: Pilot projects and other experiments.- Chapter 16: The Negative Income Tax experiments of the 1970s.- Chapter 17: Citizen’s Basic Income in Brazil: The reality of pilot experiences.- Chapter 18: Basic Income by default: Lessons from Iran’s ‘cash subsidy’ programme.- Chapter 19: The Namibian Basic Income Grant Pilot.- Chapter 20: Pilots, evidence, and politics: The Basic Income debate in India.- Chapter 21: A primer on the Finnish Basic Income experiment: From design and implementation to evaluation and impact.- Chapter 22: A variety of experiments.- Chapter 23: Current and recent Basic Income and Guaranteed Income pilots in the United States.- Chapter 24: Problems with pilot projects.- Part V: Political and ethical perspectives.- Chapter 25: Libertarian perspectives on Basic Income.- Chapter 26: Socialist arguments for Basic Income.- Chapter 27: Neither left nor right.- Chapter 28: Trade unions and Basic Income.- Chapter 29: The ethics of Basic Income.- Part VI: Concluding chapter.- Chapter 30: Tentative conclusions.
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Springer DSGE Models for Real Business Cycle and New
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Palgrave Macmillan The Economic Value of Creative Mental Labor
Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Creative mental labour and skilled mental labor.- 2. The Missing Component in Long-term Growth Theory.- 3. Long-term economic growth.- 4. Productivity increase and economic growth.- 5. Productivity increase (growth) in the service sector.- 6. Firms that only produce technologies and global growth.- 7. The plunder of skilled mental labor and growth in less developed countries.- 8. An alternative value/price theory based on creative mental labor.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Personalakquisition im Spiegelbild der
Book SynopsisIsabelle Latz analysiert unter Einbezug der Charaktereigenschaften und des Mediennutzungsverhalten die beruflichen Erwartungen der vier Generationen Babyboomer, X, Y und Z. Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit liefern damit Implikationen für eine erfolgsorientierte Personalakquisition in Anbetracht einer Generationenvielfalt. In Zeiten des demografischen und soziokulturellen Wandels ermöglicht die zielgruppenorientierte Personalbeschaffung das Erwecken von nachhaltigem Interesse an Unternehmen.Table of ContentsDer demografische Wandel fordert seinen Tribut.- Erwartungen zu Arbeitsplatz, beruflicher Selbstverwirklichung, Informationskanälen und Auswahlverfahren.- Fazit und Mehrwert: Harte (Personal-) Arbeit zahlt sich aus.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Occupational Health and Rehabilitation: New
Book SynopsisSustaining a healthy and productive work environment for employees with health issues and work disabilities or those returning to work after sick leave may present a challenge to employers. This publication offers unique insights into occupational health and rehabilitation, covering international perspectives as well as a variety of health-related disciplines. Policymakers, employers, employees, researchers and students will find new approaches to questions of how to maintain work ability and health in the workplace: Which motives influence strategic planning in the healthcare and employment sector? How can the return of employees after sick leave be facilitated? How best to implement innovations while keeping the workplace safe and healthy? And how does occupational rehabilitation benefit from evidence-based knowledge transfer?Contents• Work Ability and Work Disability• Return to Work• Work and Health• Work and InnovationTable of ContentsWork Ability and Work Disability.- Return to Work.- Work and Health.- Work and Innovation.
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Tulika Print Communication Services Flexibility of Labour in Globalizing India – The
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Tulika Books Karl Marx′s ′Capital′ and the Present – Four
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NIAS Press Departing from Java: Javanese Labour, Migration and Diaspora: 2018
Book SynopsisFrom colonial times through to the present day, large numbers of Javanese have left their homes to settle in other parts of Indonesia or much further afield. Frequently this dispersion was forced, often with traumatic results. Today, Javanese communities are found as close as Kalimantan and as far away as Suriname and the Netherlands. Meanwhile, migrant workers from Java continue to travel abroad, finding short-term employment in places like Malaysia and the Middle East. This volume traces the different ways in which Javanese migrants and migrant communities are connected in their host society and with Java as a real or imagined authoritative source of norms, values and loyalties. It underlines the importance of diaspora as a process in order to understand the evolving notions of a Javanese homeland across time and space. Even though Java as the point of departure links the different contributions, their focus is more on the process of migration and the experiences of Javanese migrants in the countries of destination. Clearly, the labour element dominates the Indonesian overseas experience. But the volume also elucidates how ethnicity, class, gender, religion and hierarchy have shaped and still inform the dynamics of diasporic communities. Many of the chapters pay particular attention to gender as women now form the majority of international migrants, domestic work being the largest category of transnational work. As a result, important aspects of the migration experience are seen in new ways via the lens of women’s experiences.
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United Nations Estudio Económico de América Latina y el Caribe
Book SynopsisEn su edición correspondiente a 2021, el Estudio Económico de América Latina y el Caribe consta de tres partes. La primera resume el desempeño de la economía regional en 2020 y analiza su evolución durante los primeros meses de 2021, así como las perspectivas de crecimiento para 2021 y 2022. La segunda parte examina las repercusiones de la crisis generada por la pandemia de la enfermedad del coronavirus (COVID-19) en los mercados laborales de la región y hace una comparación con la trayectoria histórica de dichos mercados, con especial énfasis en la evaluación del impacto desigual de la pandemia en el empleo de mujeres y jóvenes. La tercera parte, disponible en el sitio web de la CEPAL (www.cepal.org), contiene las notas sobre el desempeño económico de los países de América Latina y el Caribe en 2020 y el primer semestre de 2021, así como los respectivos anexos estadísticos. La información presentada ha sido actualizada al 30 de julio de 2021.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Workers and Margins: Grasping Erasures and
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on informal workers and margins and seeks to advance the discourse on the concepts of ‘work’, ‘workers’ and ‘margins’. By largely focusing on informal, non-formal and non-industrial sector workers where unionism, collective bargaining, and labour laws have little influence, the book promotes approaches to understanding alternate worker politics and organising practices. As such, it presents an alternative to conventional approaches to understanding workers in management and organisation studies. The book draws attention to the mechanisms of erasure implicit in disciplinary and governmental practices that allow the worker to remain invisible. By making the worker visible, it seeks to go beyond economistic and psychological approaches to work(ing) to understand the worker as a human being, with all the complexity, vulnerability and agency that status implies. Further, it seeks to go beyond worker victimhood to gather narratives of workers’ worlds and the possibility of alternate worlds. The contributing authors bring together diverse perspectives from fields including industrial relations, environment, displacement, collective action, livelihoods, rural development, MSMEs, organisational behaviour and entrepreneurship to present a textured and multidimensional view of workers and their worlds.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Workers and Margins: Grasping Erasures and Possibilities within Management Studies.- Section 1: Conceptual Aspects on Workers and Margins.- Chapter 2: Skill Formation and Precarious Labour: The Role of Industrial Training Institutes in India 1950-2018.- Chapter 3: Labor Beyond the Labor Market: Interrogating Marginality.- Chapter 4: Representation of Worker Marginalization and Quest for Livelihood Justice.- Chapter 5: Death of the Artisan: An Indigenous View on Marginalisation.- Section 2: Being Marginal.- Chapter 6: The Literary Worlds of Workers: Narratives of Art from the Margins.- Chapter 7: The Cosmos of Public Sector Township: Democracy as an Intellectual Culture.- Chapter 8: Marginality and its Contestations: A Case of Mining Affected in Goa.- Chapter 9: The Anti-power of the Marginalised: A postcolonial Perspective.- Chapter 10: Occupational Prestige and Informal Work: Women Domestic Workers in India.- Section 3: Surviving Marginalisation.- Chapter 11: Putting the Marginalised out of the Margins: Role of Mobilisation, Collectivisation and Livelihood Interventions.- Chapter 12: Getting Marginalised and Surviving.- Chapter 13: Leather Artisans-Workers and Global Value Chains: Protecting Autonomy, Enacting Dissent.- Chapter 14: CSO, Livelihoods and Margins.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Climate Change, Livelihood Diversification and
Book SynopsisThis book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change. It evaluates the role of education and exposure to change in physiological variables like temperature, precipitation, etc., in forming the right perception of climate change. While analysing livelihood diversification as a strategy to cope with climate change concerns across geography (districts), caste, education and the primary occupation of the households, the book also considers factors affecting diversification. One important aspect of well-being is consumption; thus, by focusing on consumption changes over time and relating it to livelihood diversification, the book makes an in-depth analysis of the coping mechanisms. Diversification adopted in the face of compulsion and in a situation of stagnancy may result in a range of low productivity activities, whereas diversification as an attempt to explore newer pathways in a vibrant context to reduce income risks and smooth consumption can be highly beneficial. The book, thus, focuses on job profile and occupational diversification of the sample households, the extent of instability in occupations and the distribution of households in terms of consumption pattern, the inter-temporal changes in it and the determinants. The book is useful for researchers, students in environmental studies, policy-makers, NGOs and also the common reader who wants to understand climate change, its effects on livelihoods and ways to overcome the shocks. It reflects on effective policies which can create awareness and empower people to explore opportunities for livelihood creation so that the overall is sustained if not improved.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Climate change impact on livelihood and well-being of rural poor.Chapter 2. Primary and Secondary Information.Chapter 3. Perceptions of Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies.Chapter 4. Livelihood Diversification in Odisha.Chapter 5. Climate Change, Diversification Strategy and Its Effectiveness: Assessing Wellbeing from Inter-temporal Changes in Consumption Outcomes.Chapter 6. Policy Recommendations.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Education, Human Capital Investment, and
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes education in Japan from the viewpoint of “the stagnant current Japanese economy”. Tomoyuki Tamagawa, a long-time mathematics teacher in junior high school, is now a vice principal. He and Tamotsu Nakamura have written Chapter 1 of this book together because they believe that the loss of vitality in the Japanese economy is due to the problem of human capital formation in school education. Shinji Oi has worked for many years at a Japanese broadcasting station and has extensive experience in human resource development. In Chapter 2, he analyzes the relationship between optimal human capital investment and labor market mobility, based on his recognition of the importance of vocational training, or human capital investment at the firm and the necessity for good allocation of human resources. Tokuji Saita is well versed not only in the realities and practices in the financial industry but also in the financial system as a whole. In Chapter 3, based on his long experience in the financial industry, he analyzes and points out the importance of “openness” of innovation from a macroeconomic point of view.Table of ContentsChapter 1:- Relationship between educational attainment and class size: Effects of teacher resource allocation.- Chapter 2:- Investment in general and specific human capital: Social optimality via labor turnover.- Chapter3:-Necessity of openness to stimulate innovation: An investigation into causes of slow innovation.
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HardPress Publishing Labour Rewarded. the Claims of Labour and Capital Conciliated Or How to Secure to Labour the Whole Product of Its Exertion
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Oxford University Press, USA The Mismanagement of Talent Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy
Book SynopsisThe knowledge economy conjures a world of smart people, in smart jobs, doing smart things, in smart ways, for smart money, a world increasingly open to all rather than a few. Glossy corporate brochures present a future in challenging, exciting and financially rewarding jobs for the winners in the competition for fast track management appointments. They also convey an image of enlightened employers actively seeking to diversify their talent pool, reflected in their approach to identifying, hiring and retaining outstanding talent. We are told that the challenge confronting governments around the world is to enhance the employability of the workforce. Every effort must be made to expand access to higher education, dismantle barriers to talent regardless of social circumstances, gender, or skin colour, and to harness human creativity and enterprise to meet the demands of the new economy.The Mismanagement of Talent comes to a different conclusion. Those leaving the world of mass higher education find themselves in a scramble for jobs with rising stakes for the winners and losers. The Mismanagement of Talent examines what determines the outcome of this race when a degree loses its badge of distinction. It shows how some graduates are playing ''the game'' to win a competitive advantage and what really happens in the selection events of leading-edge employers. It also argues that talent is being mismanaged by employers that have yet to come to terms with the realities and possibilities of mass higher education. The Mismanagement of Talent will be thought-provoking and controversial reading for those involved in the recruitment of graduates, and those concerned with the way knowledge-based firms recruit and the impact of higher education policy: Professionals working in university careers services, HRM, training, or recruitment generally; Researchers, academics, or students of Business and Management, Human Resource Management, Public Policy, Education, or Sociology; and Job candidates themselves - the ''players'' and ''purists'' described in the book.Trade ReviewThe strength of the book is its empirical material in support of insightful critiques of our contemporary economy, job market and recruitment industry.Table of Contents1. The Promise ; 2. The New Competition ; 3. What Knowledge Economy? ; 4. War for Talent ; 5. The Science of Gut Feelings ; 6. Players and Purists ; 7. Picking Winners ; 8. The Mismanagement of Talent ; 9. The Great Training Robbery
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Taylor & Francis The Impact of Trade on United States Employment 10 Routledge Library Editions Employment and Unemployment
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