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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisExamining the occupational variation within non-standard employment, this book combines case studies and comparative writing to illustrate how and why alternative occupational employment patterns are formed.Non-standard employment has grown significantly in most developed economies, varying between countries. Different institutional settings have been deemed accountable for this variation, although inadequate consideration has been given to differences within national labour markets. Through an occupational perspective, this book contends that patterns of non-standard employment are shaped by flexibility in hiring and firing practices and the dispensability of workers' skills. The framework integrates explanations based on labour market regulation, industrial relations and skill supply, filling the gaps in previous scholastic research.A necessary and discernible insight into employment patterns, academics in the fields of economics and sociology will find this book of great value. Policy makers and practitioners alike will benefit from the comparative analysis of rich empirical material.Contributors: F. Berton, M.R. Busemeyer, H. Chung, M. Dieckhoff, W. Eichhorst, B. Francon, V. Gash, A.C. Gielen, M. Keune, A. Koslowski, J. Leschke, P. López Roldán, P.K. Madsen, P. Marx, C. McLean, A. Mertens, O. Molina, R. Muffels, M. Nelson, M. Richiardi, L. Romeu-Gordo, S. Sacchi, T. Schils, K. Thelen, V. TobschTrade Review‘The articles contained in the book are written by an international group of authors and comprise some very interesting analyses, filled with, and enhanced by, empirical data and case studies.’ -- European Journal of Social Security‘The editors and authors are to be congratulated on a most useful volume that will confirm some of its readers’ assumptions about Europe’s changing employment market and will demolish a few others.’ -- Citizen’s Income NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: An Occupational Perspective on Non-standard Employment Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx PART I COUNTRY CHAPTERS 2. Non-Standard Employment Across Occupations in Germany: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx and Verena Tobsch 3. Non-Standard Employment Patterns across Occupations in the Netherlands Anne C. Gielen and Trudie Schils 4. Occupational Employment Patterns in a Highly Regulated Labour Market: The Case of France Baptiste Françon and Paul Marx 5. Occupational Growth and Non-Standard Employment in the Spanish Service Sector: From Upgrading to Polarisation Oscar Molina and Pedro López Roldán 6. Non-standard Work, Low-paid Work and Employment Dynamics in Italy: Evidence From an Occupational Perspective Fabio Berton, Matteo Richiardi and Stefano Sacchi 7. Labour Market Flexibility in the Danish Service Sector: Same Old, Same Old, But More Different Per K. Madsen 8. Variation in the Prevalence of Temporary Contracts across Occupations in the UK Alison Koslowski and Caitlin McLean 9. Non-standard Employment across Occupations in the United States: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility Moira Nelson PART II COMPARATIVE CHAPTERS 10. Subjective Employment Insecurity Gap between Occupations: Variance across Europe Heejung Chung 11. Understanding Occupational Differences in Flexibilisation and Mobility Patterns in Europe: Do Institutions Matter? Ruud Muffels 12. Non-standard Employment of Women in Service Sector Occupations: A Comparison of European Countries Janine Leschke 13. Female Atypical Employment in the Service Occupations: A Comparative Study of Time Trends in Germany and the UK Martina Dieckhoff, Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens and Laura Romeu-Gordo 14. Trade Unions, Precarious Work and Dualisation in Europe Maarten Keune 15. Non-standard Employment and Systems of Skill Formation in European Countries Marius R. Busemeyer and Kathleen Thelen Index

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Book SynopsisSweden has gained a worldwide reputation for its family friendly policies and the high share of women in paid employment. This book discusses the particular importance of early activation policies in the increase of women's paid employment and in changing gender and family relations. It explores how the integration of women into paid work was actually accomplished: on what ideational grounds, and using what concrete measures, were the conditions created for increasing the employment ratio of women? A number of activation measures are analyzed in more detail: vocational training, opinion-shaping, persuading activities and the work done by activating inspectors, specially installed to initiate housewives into paid labor. The book showcases how early activation policies contributed to the transformation of gender and family relations and thus to a farewell to male breadwinning. The book will appeal to undergraduates as well as graduate students, lecturers and researchers in gender studies, social and public policy and across the fields of politics, European studies, and contemporary history.Trade Review'Sweden's social policies have a central place in both academic and political discussions of the role of states in promoting women's labor market activation and gender equality. Lundqvist's innovative, historically rich and theoretically sophisticated study analyzes a key episode in the building of these policies, focusing on the agency of Sweden's activation inspectors. She brings to light for the first time the critical role of women inspectors in the building of Sweden's policy architecture. Scholars of gender, social policy, states and labor markets will find here fresh insights and understandings of the gendered transformations of state policies and politics which continue into our own time.' --Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University, US'Asa Lundqvist has written a compelling study on gender, the labour market and the welfare state. Based on a profound historical-sociological analysis of Swedish labour market and family policies, including the 1960s activation campaigns attracting women into the workforce, the book is an exciting history of gendered welfare-state efforts to change social structures and individual behaviour. With her historical sensitivity and theoretical and methodological skills, Lundqvist makes a highly important contribution to current discussion on activation, workfare, and work-family relations.' --Pauli Kettunen, University of Helsinki, FinlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Activation policies and changing family relations 2. The politics of paid work 3. The activation project: Mission, goals and visions 4. Activation through training 5. Activation through information and persuasion 6. The activation inspector 7. Activating women: aim, means and consequences References Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last 70 years, Korea has experienced a rapid and remarkable transformation from a devastatingly poor nation to one of the world's leading advanced economies, achieving both sustained economic growth and a successful democracy. This pioneering work focuses on the key role of sustained investment in human capital behind Korea's phenomenal success. Human Capital and Development analyzes the importance of balancing diverse aspects of the educational system at different stages of development. The need to balance general and vocational education, top-down and bottom-up reform, as well as qualitative and quantitative expansion are highlighted. Adapting Korea's development experience to general principles shows that rather than seeking universal strategies and rules, the key to successful transformation is the provision of educational systems that can evolve over time depending on socio-economic and technological conditions for both developing and advanced countries. For researchers and students of economic development, education, and Asian development, this book is an excellent tool to discover possible ways for developing countries to initiate and accelerate their paths of economic growth and development. This book also provides a useful reference for policy makers of advanced as well as developing countries in designing their education systems and policies.Trade ReviewI want to congratulate Dr. Ju-Ho Lee and his colleagues Professor Hyeok Jeong and Dr. Song Chang Hong on this remarkable book. At a time when the global community seeks to rise to - and meet - the Sustainable Development Goal promise, a book such as this is certain to hasten our efforts and inspire further action. The message this text carries, that when leaders invest in the creation of knowledge through universal education and skills development innovation and economic growth will follow, cannot be ignored. Korea is a fitting example of, and testament to, this truth.' --From the Foreword by Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United KingdomTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Introduction 1. Accumulating Human Capital for Sustainable Development 2. Education Bubble and Widening Inequality 3. Making Education Diversification Reform Happen 4. Turning Around Failing Vocational High Schools 5. Deteriorating Skills and Weak Life-long Learning 6. Fostering Project-Based Learning and Performance Assessment 7. Stimulating High-Risk High-Payoff Research 8. Nuts and Bolts of the Aid for TVET Reference References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is a sustainable career? And how can individuals and organizations develop pathways that lead to them? With current levels of global unemployment and the need for life-long learning and employability enhancement, these questions assume a pressing significance. Offering twenty-eight chapters from leading scholars, the Handbook of Research on Sustainable Careers makes an important contribution to our understanding of sustainable careers and lays the foundation for the direction of future research.With the aim of advancing existing knowledge surrounding the meaning, antecedents and outcomes of sustainable careers, this book discusses the topic from several different angles combining both theoretical and empirical as well as practical insights. Topics include crafting sustainable careers in organizations, merits and challenges of career adaptability, psychological mobility during unemployment and the role of employee adaptability.Students and academics of varied disciplines looking for multidimensional perspectives on sustainable careers will find this to be a worthwhile read. HR professionals, career counsellors and public policy makers will find use in the practical guidance offered in this book.Contributors: T. Aalbers, M.B. Arthur, P.M. Bal, Y. Baruch, C. Bernhard-Oettel, T. Bipp, N. Bozionelos, J.P. Briscoe, M.B.W. Buyken, A. De Coen, N. De Cuyper, S. De Hauw, A.H. De Lange, P. De Prins, A. De Vos, H. De Witte, N. Dries, N. Egold, C. Fleisher, A. Forrier, F. Fraccaroli, A. Froidevaux, J.H. Greenhaus, D.E Guest, D.T. Hall, A. Hirschi, I.M. Jawahar, C. Kelliher, S.N. Khapova, U. Kinnunen, U.-C. Klehe, D. Kooij, M. Latzke, B.S. Lawrence, A. Mäkikangas, S. Mauno, W. Mayrhofer, A. Milissen, K. Näswall, K. Pernkopf, P.Peters, J. Rantanen, J. Richardson, R. Rodrigues, C. Rohr, R. Schalk, M.M. Schipper, T.M. Schneidhofer, J. Segers, L. Sels, J.H. Semeijn, T.H. Stone, D.M. Truxillo, M. Valcour, L. Van Beirendonck, K. Van Dam, A. Van den Broeck, B. Van der Heijden, R. Van Dick, M. van Engen, J. van Ruysseveldt, S. Vansteenkiste, A.E.M. Van Vianen, T. Van Vuuren, M. Verbruggen, C.J. Vinkenburg, S. Zaniboni, J. ZikicTrade Review'Sustainability is a principle which can be applied both to manage people in organizations and for self-management. The international contributors to this Handbook explore new facts of career management and how careers can be made more sustainable both from an individual and an organizational perspective. Sustainable employability, work ability, combining career and care, sustainable employment relations, career eco-systems and sustainable careers of older workers are only some of the many interesting topics in this volume. This Handbook is a milestone in career research and a huge contribution to the literature on sustainable human resource management - a book that academics and practitioners, newcomers and experts interested in careers should not miss.' --Ina Ehnert, Louvain School of Management, Belgium'Ans De Vos and Beatrice Van der Heijden reframe our thinking in this Handbook of Research on Sustainable Careers. The collection of contemporary perspectives grounds elements such as meaning, balance and relationships into viable future careers. In so doing, they stimulate possibility while retaining practicality. Highly recommended for careers scholars, students and practitioners.' --Polly Parker, University of Queensland, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Sustainable Careers: Introductory Chapter Beatrice I.J.M. Van der Heijden and Ans De Vos 2. Facilitating the Crafting of Sustainable Careers in Organizations Monique Valcour 3. Merits and Challenges of Career Adaptability as a Tool Towards Sustainable Careers Maximilian B.W. Buyken, Ute-Christine Klehe, Jelena Zikic and Annelies E.M. Van Vianen 4. Relational Career Capital: Towards a Sustainable Perspective Markus Latzke, Thomas M. Schneidhofer, Katharina Pernkopf, Carina Rohr and Wolfgang Mayrhofer 5. Social Capital and Careers: Indisputable Evidence and Note for Caution Nikos Bozionelos 6. Career Capital Acquisition through Corporate Volunteering Chen Fleisher, Svetlana N. Khapova and Mette M. Schipper 7. Career and Organizational Identification: Extending the Expanded Model of Identification Nikolai Egold and Rolf Van Dick 8. Managing Visibility for Career Sustainability: A Study of Remote Workers Julia Richardson and Clare Kelliher 9. Promoting New Norms and True Flexibility: Sustainability in Combining Career and Care Claartje J. Vinkenburg, Marloes L. van Engen and Pascale Peters 10. Sustainable Labour Participation and Sustainable Careers Judith H. Semeijn, Karen Van Dam, Tinka Van Vuuren and Beatrice I.J.M. Van der Heijden 11. Perceived Employability in Times of Job Insecurity: A Theoretical Perspective Nele De Cuyper, Anja Van den Broeck, and Hans De Witte 12. Psychological Mobility during Unemployment: An Outplacement Study Marijke Verbruggen, Nicky Dries, Anke Milissen and Sarah Vansteenkiste 13. The Role of Employee Adaptability, Goal Striving and Proactivity for Modern Careers Karen van Dam, Tanja Bipp and Joris van Ruysseveldt 14. Career Control David E. Guest and Ricardo Rodrigues 15. Building a Sustainable Career: The Role of Work-home Balance in Career Decision Making Sara De Hauw and Jeff H. Greenhaus 16. Work-family Interface in Atypical Working Arrangements Saija Mauno, Ulla Kinnunen, Johanna Rantanen, and Anne Mäkikangas 17. Sustainable Work Ability and Cognitive Functioning through Lifestyle Improvement? Teun Aalbers and Annet H. De Lange 18. Older Workers and Sustainable Late Careers: Job Characteristic Effects Sara Zaniboni, Franco Fraccaroli, and Donald M. Truxillo 19. Sustainability in the Second Half of the Career René Schalk, Marloes L. van Engen and Dorien Kooij 20. Sustainable Careers: Enabling Older Workers to Continue Working through Individualized Work Arrangements P. Matthijs Bal 21. Sustainable HRM for Sustainable Careers: Introducing the ‘Respect Openness Continuity (ROC)’ model Peggy De Prins, Ans De Vos, Lou Van Beirendonck and Jesse Segers 22. Studying Retirement from a Career Perspective: Are People who take Charge of their Career Less Inclined to Retire? An De Coen, Anneleen Forrier and Luc Sels 23. Managing the Transition to Retirement: From Meaningful Work to Meaning in Life at Retirement Ariane Froidevaux and Andreas Hirschi 24. Organizational and Labor Markets as Career Eco-system Yehuda Baruch 25. Career Continuance and Transfer of Competencies after Job Transitions: Insights from a Swedish Study Claudia Bernhard-Oettel and Katharina Näswall 26. Career Implications of Job Performance: Persistence of OCB and CWB Behaviors Across Domains Thomas H. Stone and I.M. Jawahar 27. Educating Students for Sustainable Careers – In the Classroom and Beyond Jon P. Briscoe 28. Sustainable Careers Then and Now Barbara S. Lawrence, Douglas T. Hall and Michael. B. Arthur Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical reflection on the operation and effects of labour regulation. It articulates the broad goals and extensive potential for it to contribute to inclusive development, while also considering the limits of some areas of regulation and governance. Drawing on both field studies and innovative theoretical perspectives, the contributors reveal an emerging consensus that labour regulation is neither negative nor positive for economic and social outcomes. By comparing the concerns and methodologies of various disciplines, they argue that balanced regulation is essential. Following analysis of how the global financial crisis has increased labour market segmentation, the book addresses the needs of key groups often at the periphery, including young women, workers in the informal economy, migrants and home-care workers. The book argues that effective and efficient labour market regulation can contribute to achieving key policy goals of employment formalization and inclusive labour markets, while also pursuing equitable distribution. An important comparative work, academics and students will find this book to be of exceptional value, particularly those studying law, economics, political science, international relations and development studies. Practitioners and policy-makers from both developed and developing countries will also benefit from the wide range of perspectives.Contributors include: D. Bailey, F. Bertranou, L. Casanova, S. Charlesworth, A. De Ruyter, C. Fenwick, M. Freedland, J. Grundy, B.-H. Lee, R. Rachmawati, J. Rubery, M.I. Syaebani, M.P. Thomas, K. Tijdens, V. Van Goethem, M. Van Klaveren, A.M. Vargas Falla, L.F. Vosko, T. WarneckeTable of ContentsContents: 1. Labour market regulation and the imperative to stimulate job-rich growth Colin Fenwick and Valérie Van Goethem Part I: Introduction 2. Reregulating for inclusive labour markets Jill Rubery 3. Beyond New Governance: Improving Employment Standards Enforcement in Liberal Market Economies Leah F. Vosko, John Grundy and Mark P. Thomas Part II: Labour Market Regulation and Vulnerability 4. Assessing the Scale of Women’s Informal Work: An Industry Outlook for 14 Developing Countries Maarten van Klaveren and Kea Tijdens 5. Regulating informal work at the interface between labour law and migration law Mark Freedland 6. Partial protection? The Regulation of Home Care Workers’ Working Conditions Sara Charlesworth Part III: Labour Market Regulation and Informality 7. Informal work in the Republic of Korea: Non-Regulation or Non-Compliance? Byung-Hee Lee 8. Employment Formalization in Argentina: Recurring and New Challenges for Public Policies Fabio Bertranou and Luis Casanova 9. Formalizing Street Vendors: Regulating to Improve Well-Being or to Gain Control? Ana Maria Vargas-Falla 10. Working conditions of urban vendors in Indonesia: Lessons for labour law enforcement Alex de Ruyter, Muhammad Irfan Syaebani, Riani Rachmawati, David Bailey and Tonia Warnecke Index

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Book Synopsis'This timely book offers not only richly textured studies of European trade union responses to the influx of immigrant workers across the continent, but also an insightful comparative analysis. Building on an earlier volume that the editors published at the turn of the 21st century, this one focuses on the new challenges posed by growing economic globalization, trade union decline, and the surge of xenophobia among European workers. It deserves a prominent spot on the bookshelf of anyone interested in labor movements and migration, not only in Europe but worldwide.'- Ruth Milkman, The Graduate Center, City University of New York'Trade Unions and Migrant Workers updates the classic ''three-dilemmas'' thesis of Penninx and Roosblad, demonstrating its continuing relevance in today's shifting migration context. Drawing on national case studies of union responses to labour migration, it shows that while the balance of power and incentive structures unions face have shifted, the fundamental strategic dilemmas posed to unions by labour migration remain the same. This book will be a go-to citation for me in the coming years.'- Nathan Lillie, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland This timely book analyzes the relationship between trade unions, immigration and migrant workers across eleven European countries in the period between the 1990s and 2015. It constitutes an extensive update of a previous comparative analysis - published by Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad in 2000 - that has become an important reference in the field. The book offers an overview of how trade unions manage issues of inclusion and solidarity in the current economic and political context, characterized by increasing challenges for labour organizations and rising hostility towards migrants. The qualitative analysis of trade union strategies towards immigration and migrant workers is based on a common analytical framework centred on the idea of 'dilemmas' that trade unions have to face when dealing with immigration and migrant workers. This approach facilitates comparative analysis and distinguishes patterns of union policies and actions across three groups of countries, identifying some explanations for observed similarities and differences. In addition, the book also includes theoretical chapters by expert scholars from a range of disciplinary fields including industrial relations, migration studies and political economy. This comprehensive comparative analysis is an essential resource for academics across a range of disciplines as well as policy-makers, practitioners and organizations involved in trade unions and migrant inclusion and integration.Contributors include: M. Bernaciak, L. Berntsen, M. Canek, H. Connolly, S. Contrepois, A. Gachter, A. Giorgi, R. Gumbrell-McCormick, T. Hastings, J. Heyes, M. Hyland, R. Hyman, J. Kubisa, S. Marino, M. Martinez Lucio, A. Neergaard, R. Penninx, M. Rinaldini, J. Roosblad, B. Sellers, T. Vitale, I. Wagner, C. WoolfsonTrade Review'This work provides a relevant comparative and detailed description of how the early slogan ''Proletarians of all countries, unite!'' (Karl Marx, 1848) has been put into practice in Europe in the 21st century. This presented a huge challenge for the (re)construction of worker solidarity and the organized defence of social rights. This book sheds important light on how further European social construction could progress.' --Albert Martens, KU Leuven, Belgium'The labour market integration of migrant workers and of workers with a migration background is an increasingly sensitive puzzle for employment services, employers, and especially politicians across Europe. In this puzzle, trade unions have an enormous role, which is too often neglected and which varies across countries, issues and time. This book by an impressive team of experts provides a long needed systematic and sympathetic analysis and will be the central reference for both research and policy debates for years to come.' --Guglielmo Meardi, University of Warwick, UK'In recent years, immigration has posed major political and economic challenges for western societies. Whether and how to integrate or restrict immigrant workers is a burning question for politicians and activists across the spectrum. Of particular importance are the attitudes of trade unions, organizations well situated either to exclude or to craft strategies of inclusion. In this fine book, experienced researchers offer a comprehensive study of contrasting union approaches across eleven European countries. Findings are informative, surprising, and couldn't be more timely.' --Lowell Turner, Cornell University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Done-One Kim Foreword by Moussa Oumarou and Manuela Tomei 1. Introduction: How to study trade union action towards immigration and migrant workers? Stefania Marino, Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad Part I Changing contextual conditions for trade union action 2. Economic and labour market change and policies: Before and beyond austerity in Europe Jason Heyes and Thomas Hastings 3. Migration and its regulation in an integrating Europe Rinus Penninx 4. Migrants in the public discourse: Between media, policy and public opinion Alberta Giorgi and Tommaso Vitale 5. Trade unions in Europe: Challenges and responses Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Richard Hyman and Magdalena Bernaciak Part II Trade union attitudes and actions relating to immigration and migrant workers in 11 European countries 6. Trade unions and migration in Austria, 1993-2015 August Gächter 7. France: The assimilationist model called into question Sylvie Contrepois 8. Trade unions and migrant workers in Germany: Unions between national and transnational labour market segmentation Ines Wagner 9. The Netherlands: Finding common ground in an increasingly fragmented workforce Judith Roosblad and Lisa Berntsen 10. Sweden: A model in dissolution? Anders Neergaard and Charles Woolfson 11. Trade unions and migrant workers in the UK: Organising in a cold climate Heather Connolly and Ben Sellers 12. Trade unions and migrant workers in Ireland: New organisational opportunities under changed circumstances Mary Hyland 13. Trade unions and migrant workers in Italy: Between labour and social rights Matteo Rinaldini and Stefania Marino 14. Trade unions and immigration in Spain: The politics and framing of social inclusion within industrial relations Miguel Martínez Lucio 15. Trade unions and migration in the Czech Republic, 2004-15 Marek Čanek 16. Trade unions and migrant workers in Poland: First stage of a work in progress Julia Kubisa Part III Analysis and conclusions 17. Comparing trade union attitudes and actions relating to immigration and migrant workers in 11 European countries Stefania Marino, Judith Roosblad and Rinus Penninx Index

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Book SynopsisBy examining the evolution of industrial relations institutions in the emerging economies of Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Turkey, the authors in this book assess the contribution of these institutions to inclusive development. Industrial Relations in Emerging Economies uses real world examples to assess the relevance of the conceptual frameworks used to examine employment relations. The chapters focus on the evolution of industrial relations institutions and the role these have played in periods of economic and political transition. They demonstrate that rather than acting as a constraint on development, trade unions can contribute to stability, security and equity. However, the contribution of industrial relations institutions to inclusive development is at best a contested pathway. At worst it is viewed as increasingly irrelevant to the vast numbers of workers in the informal economy. The authors reveal a continuing demand for independent collective interest representation in labour relations, whether in the informal economy or in rapidly industrialising districts.This book will prove an interesting and stimulating read for students, academics and researchers in the fields of human resources, industrial relations, sociology and labour economics, in addition to trade union researchers and policy-makers.Contributors include: J. Berg, A. Celik, S. Hayter, C.-H. Lee, N. Pons-Vignon, U. Rani, E. Schneider, R. SenTrade Review'As the share of emerging economies in the global economy grows, interest in industrial relations in these countries is also increasing among academics, policy-makers and practitioners. This book makes a significant contribution to the analysis of industrial relations' role relative to inclusive growth in the era of socio-economic polarization.' --Dong-One Kim, President, International Labor and Employment Relations Association (ILERA)'This timely volume goes a long way towards filling an important gap in the literature on industrial relations. It shows that the role that trade unions play in the development process is contested terrain, exposing the inherent limitations of pluralist frameworks in the largest emerging economies.' --Richard Hyman, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Industrial Relations in Emerging Economies Susan Hayter 2. Labour Relations and Inclusive Growth in India: New Forms of Voice Uma Rani and Ratna Sen 3. Industrial Relations and Inclusive Development in South Africa: A Dream Deferred? Susan Hayter and Nicolas Pons-Vignon 4. Industrial Relations and Inclusive Growth in Brazil: The Swinging Pendulum Janine Berg and Eduardo Schneider 5. Industrial Relations and Inclusive Development in China: Connecting Institutions and Voice Chang-Hee Lee 6. Industrial Relations in Turkey: Still Waiting for a Strong and Modern System Aziz Çelik Index

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Book SynopsisSince the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed - and even reversed in some countries - and the prospect of 'being your own boss' is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia. Traditionally, self-employment has been associated with independent entrepreneurship, but increasingly it is linked to being a form of precarious work. This book utilises evidence-based information to address both the current and future challenges of this trend as the nature of self-employment changes, as well as to demonstrate where, when and why self-employment has emerged as precarious work in Europe. Bringing together leading international experts in the field, this book provides insight into key issues surrounding self-employment from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Covering existing theory and context, providing empirical results of studies into self-employment and precarious work from across Europe, and discussion of the implications of this research, it offers key insights into future avenues for research. Students of European studies and social policy, as well as policy makers and researchers with a particular interest in employment, self-employment and precarious work across Europe, will find the data and policy ideas presented in this book an invaluable read.Trade Review‘The reviewed book represents a significant enrichment of the discussion on the topic of precarious self-employment. It is therefore recommended to a wide range of readers, especially to those wishing to gain insight and advance their knowledge in this field, while also being particularly relevant for researchers and policy makers.’ -- Primoz Rataj, European Journal of Social SecurityTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Self-Employment: Between Freedom and Insecurity Wieteke Conen and Joop Schippers PART I Do we have to worry about the ‘new self-employed’? Theory and Context 2. Labour Market Flexibility, Self-Employment and Precariousness Joop Schippers 3. Social Protection for the Self-Employed: an EU Legal Perspective Hanneke Bennaars 4. Self-Employment, Pensions and the Risk of Poverty in Old Age Uwe Fachinger PART II Self-Employment and Precarious Work in Europe: Empirical Results 5. Self-Employment: Independent ‘Enterprise’, or Precarious Low-skilled Work? The case of the UK Nigel Meager 6. Micro-Entrepreneurship and Changing Contours of Work: Towards Precarious Work Relations? Empirical Findings from Austria Dieter Bögenhold, Andrea Klinglmair, Zulaicha Parastuty and Florian Kandutsch 7. Precariousness and Social Risks among Solo Self-Employed in Germany and The Netherlands Wieteke Conen and Maarten Debets 8. Between Precariousness and Freedom: the Ambivalent Condition of Independent Professionals in Italy Paolo Borghi and Annalisa Murgia 9. Bogus Self-Employment in Sweden Dominique Anxo and Thomas Ericson 10. Precariousness among Older Self-Employed Workers in Europe Wieteke Conen 11. Migrant Self-Employment in Germany: On the Risks, Characteristics and Determinants of Precarious Work Stefan Berwing, Andrew Isaak and René Leicht PART III Implications and Future Research Agenda 12. The Matter of Representation: Precarious Self-Employment and Interest Organisations Giedo Jansen and Roderick Sluiter 13. The ‘New’ Self-Employed and Hybrid Forms of Employment: Challenges for Social Policies in Europe Karin Schulze Buschoff 14. Between Freedom and Insecurity: Future Challenges Joop Schippers and Wieteke Conen Index

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Book Synopsis'All in all, the chapters of the volume provide insightful material 'about how different forms of precarious work are linked to speci?c institutional changes in the labour market and laws governing it but also how they are linked to each other'. . . Situated in the ?eld of Global Labour Studies, the volume goes beyond one of the most central weaknesses of the discipline: its optimistic bias. By systematically including cases in which trade failed or chose not to engage in the organization of precarious workers, the contributions pave the way to a deeper understanding of the challenges within this ?eld.'- British Journal of Industrial RelationsWith the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. This edited collection explores the spread across a number of economic sectors and countries worldwide of work that is invariably insecure, dirty, low-paid, and often temporary and/or part-time.The first part of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years in both the Global North and South. These transformations are captured in ethnographically orientated chapters on sweatshops, day labour, homework, Chinese construction workers unpaid contract work, the introduction of insecure contracting into the Korean automotive industry, and the insecurity of Brazilian sugarcane cutters. The case studies all shed light upon how the nature of work and the workplace are changing under the pressures of neoliberal capitalism and what this means for workers. In the second part the editors and contributors then detail some of the ways in which precarious workers are seeking to improve their own situations through their efforts to counter the growth of precarity under neoliberal capitalism, efforts that involve collectively exploring forms of resistance to work restructuring and the failures of traditional trade unions to fully engage with precarious work's growth.Illustrating the impacts of the expansion of precarious work, this book will appeal to students, academics and those generally interested in the issues of the global economy, the reworking of labour markets, the impacts of neoliberal capitalism and ethnographies of the working poor in various parts of the world.Contributors include: L.L.M. Aguiar, M.J. Barreto, S. Chauvin, J. Cock, B. Garvey, M. Gillan, D. Hattatoglu, A. Herod, L. Huilin, K. Joynt, R. Lambert, P. Ngai, J. Tate, M. Thomas, E. Webster, A. YunTrade Review'Precarious work is on the rise in the Global South and North alike. This important volume provides interesting examples about the hardship of long working hours, poverty wages and dangerous employment conditions. And yet, workers are not only victims but also agents with possibilities of resistance. The book points to the potential of a cross-border movement of the dispossessed based on a re-imagined role of the labour movement. A must read for everyone interested in resistance to capitalist exploitation.' --Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham, UK'As the world becomes increasingly global, labor's response must be as well. As ''standard'' employment declines, and workers come to see ''flexibility'' as a four-letter word, the future of the labor movement hinges on the ability to develop creative responses to precarious labor. Anyone interested in stimulating examples of what is happening to employment and ways to challenge precarious work needs to read Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work.' --Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts Amherst'A clear and engaging global overview of the extent and nature(s) of precarious work and the link between such precarity and neoliberalism is provided by the editors' Introduction. . . I would thoroughly recommend.' --Journal of Industrial RelationsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Neoliberalism, Precarious Work and Remaking the Geography of Global Capitalism Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert PART I EXPERIENCES OF PRECARIOUS WORK Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert 2. The Growth and Organization of a Precariat: Working in the Clothing Industry in Johannesburg’s Inner City Katherine Joynt and Edward Webster 3. Bounded Mobilizations: Informal Unionism and Secondary Shaming Amongst Immigrant Temp Workers in Chicago Sébastien Chauvin 4. Homebased Work and New Ways of Organizing in the Era of Globalization Dilek Hattatoğlu and Jane Tate 5. Constructing Violence and Resistance: The Political Economy of the Construction Industry and Labour Subcontracting System in Post-Socialist China Pun Ngai and Lu Huilin 6. Nature and Insecurity in South Africa Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert 7. At the Cutting Edge: Precarious Work in Brazil’s Sugar and Ethanol Industry Brian Garvey and Maria Joseli Barreto PART II CHALLENGING PRECARIOUS WORK Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert 8. Organizing Across a Fragmented Labour Force: Trade Union Responses to Precarious Work in Korean Auto Companies Aelim Yun 9. Closures and Openings: The Politics of Place and Space in Resisting Corporate Restructuring Michael Gillan and Rob Lambert 10. Sweatshop Citizenship, Precariousness and Organizing Building Cleaners Luis L.M. Aguiar 11. Global Unions, Global Framework Agreements and the Transnational Regulation of Labour Standards Mark Thomas Conclusion: Towards a Movement of the Dispossessed? Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod Index

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Book SynopsisRegional integration plays an important role in the advance of economic and social development across many parts of the world. Generating growth and expanding markets, it boosts productivity through the exchange of ideas, technologies, and human resources. This book explores the key vision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): fostering the free flow of goods, services, investment, and skilled labor in order to establish a globally competitive region with a single market and production base. Bringing together contributions from renowned scholars in their respective fields, this book takes stock of the trends and patterns of skilled labor migration in the ASEAN, examining the existing literature and adding to it with unique insights drawn from original case studies and policy simulations. Identifying the challenges posed by recent significant changes, this book also looks to the future, to identify potential policy responses. The contributions dispel a common assumption that skill mobility is a zero-sum game, and instead contend that it can be mutually beneficial for both sides. With rigorous quantitative analysis, this book will be a useful tool for both policy practitioners and policymakers as well as for researchers and students of international development, economics, and Asian studies.Trade Review‘This book is highly informative on both theoretical and policy fronts, thereby offering a valuable tool for policymakers as well as researchers or students who are interested in international economic development of Asian economies.’ -- Hai Anh La, Asian-Pacific Economic LiteratureTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface 1. Trends and patterns in intra-ASEAN migration Aiko Kikkawa and Eric B. Suan 2. Skilled migration in the literature: What we know, what we think we know, and why it matters to know the difference Elisabetta Gentile 3. Economic impacts of skilled labor mobility within the ASEAN Economic Community Erwin Corong and Angel Aguiar 4. Implications of ASEAN economic integration on services: a global computable general equilibrium analysis Kakali Mukhopadhyay 5. Employment effects of removal of restrictions on the movement of natural persons in the ASEAN banking sector Huong Dinh 6. Skills mobility and postsecondary education in the ASEAN Economic Community Maki Kato 7. Institutionalized costs and international migration patterns Saibal Kar 8. Expanding skilled-worker mobility: Comparing the migration of Indonesian careworkers to Taipei,China and Indonesian nurses and careworkers to Japan Ratih Pratiwi Anwar 9. Will ASEAN mutual recognition arrangements induce skilled workers to move? A case study of the engineering labor market in Thailand Sasiwimon Warunsiri Paweenawat and Jessica Vechbanyongratana 10. Skill flows and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Future questions and directions for the ASEAN Economic Community Anna Fink and Elisabetta Gentile Index

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Book SynopsisInternational debate has recently focused on increased inequalities and the adverse effects that they may have on both social and economic developments. Income inequality, which is at its highest level for the past half-century, may not only undermine the sustainability of European social policy but also put at risk Europe?s sustainable recovery. A common feature of recent reports on inequality (ILO, OECD, IMF, 2015?2017) is their recognition that the causes emerge from mechanisms in the world of work. The purpose of this book is to investigate the possible role of industrial relations, and social policies more generally, in reducing these inequalities.The volume pays particular attention to the contribution of social partners and social dialogue to achieving concrete outcomes, notably in terms of flexibility and security for both employers and workers. The key aim is to identify elements of a response to a number of important questions: which countries have succeeded in carrying out the necessary reforms without generating further inequalities? What industrial relations systems seem to perform better in this respect? What policy measures, institutions and actors play a determinant role in achieving more balanced outcomes? How can social dialogue address future transformations of the world of work, while limiting inequalities?The scope of this volume goes beyond pay to address other types of inequality ? in the distribution of working time, access or re-access to jobs, training and career opportunities, and social protection and pensions. It also looks at inequalities that may affect particular groups of workers, including women or young people, as well as people in certain types of work arrangements, such as part-time or temporary work or the self-employed.This book is vital reading for anyone concerned with labour policy, industrial relations and social welfare but, above all, with how advances in these areas can contribute to the global fight against growing inequalities.Contributors include: D. Anxo, B. Bembic, G. Bosch, P. Courtioux, C. Erhel, K. Espenberg, G. Fiorani, G. Giakoumatos, D. Grimshaw, M. Johnson, M. Karamessini, I. Marx, J. Masso, I. Mierina, R. Muñoz de Bustillo, B. Nolan, F. Pinto Hernández, W. Salverda, A. Simonazzi, M. Tverdostup, L. Van Cant, D. Vaughan-Whitehead, R. Vazquez-AlvarezTrade Review‘I strongly recommend it to any scholar interested in this important topic.’ -- John D Stephens, Journal of Social Policy‘Within its prescribed orbit, this is a useful book for those wishing to examine recent shifts and interactions between industrial relations regimes and inequality.’ -- Michael Quinlan, Emeritus Professor, Industrial RelationsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Curbing Inequalities in Europe: The Impact of Industrial Relations and Labour Policies Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead and Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez 2. Labour Market Inequalities in Conditions of Limited Social Dialogue: The Case of the Baltic States Jaan Masso, Maryna Tverdostup, Inta Mierina and Kerly Espenberg 3. Belgium: Is Robust Social Concertation Providing a Buffer against Growing Inequality? Ive Marx and Lien Van Cant 4. Social Dialogue in France under Pressure: Can Worker Security be achieved in a Context of Increasing Job Flexibility? Pierre Courtioux and Christine Erhel 5. Social Dialogue in Germany: Innovation or Erosion? Gerhard Bosch 6. Industrial Relations, Imposed Flexibility and Inequality during the Greek Great Depression Maria Karamessini and Stefanos Giakoumatos 7. Social Dialogue and Inequality: Ireland Brian Nolan 8. Italy: Industrial Relations and Inequality in a Recessionary Environment Annamaria Simonazzi and Giuseppe Fiorani 9. The Netherlands: Is the Polder Model Behind the Curve with Regard to Growing Household Income Inequality? Wiemer Salverda 10. Changes in Inequality Outcomes alongside Industrial Relations Transformation in Slovenia Branko Bembič 11. Industrial Relations and Inequality in the Spanish Labour Market: Resilience and Change Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo and Fernando Pinto Hernández 12. Shaping the Future of Work in Sweden: The Crucial Role of Social Partnership Dominique Anxo 13. Inequality at Work in the United Kingdom: How Perforated Industrial Relations Worsen Inequalities and Hold Back Progress on Equalities Damian Grimshaw and Mat Johnson Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, due to unprecedented technological advancements, Europe has seen a move towards on-demand service economies. This has allowed the growth of self-employed professionals who are able to satisfy an increasing demand for flexible and high-skilled work. This book explores the need for reform of regulations in Europe, studying the variance in legal status, working conditions, social protection and collective representation of self-employed professionals. It provides insights into ways that policy could address these important challenges.Presenting the results of a wide-reaching European survey, this book highlights key issues being faced across Europe: the implementation of universal social protection schemes; active labour market policies to support sustainable self-employment and the renewal of social dialogue through bottom-up organisations to extend the collective representation of self-employed professionals. With its theoretically-informed, empirical and interdisciplinary comparative analysis, this book identifies and explains key strategies to resolve these challenges.This book will be of great benefit to both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and economic sociology, political science, industrial relations, human resource management and social law. It will also appeal to scholars, practitioners and policymakers concerned with the labour market and self-employment in the European context.Trade Review'This book has no rival in its field. It is by a long shot the most comprehensive, informative, and in-depth treatment of how different European nations adapt to, provide social support for, and legally regulate the burgeoning class of highly qualified self-employed professionals. This volume highlights one of the many challenges facing the new post-industrial order, and it does so with aplomb.' --Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain and Bocconi University, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword David Marsden 1. Introduction: self-employed professionals in a comparative perspective François Pichault and Renata Semenza 2. New self-employment as a theoretical matter Renata Semenza and Anna Mori 3. Working conditions and needs: results of a European survey Anna Soru, Elena Sinibaldi and Cristina Zanni 4. The place of self-employment in the European context. Evidence from nine country case studies: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom Laura Beuker, Paolo Borghi, Marie-Christine Bureau, Antonella Corsani, Bernard Gazier, Alejandro Godino, Bas Koene, Antonio Martín-Artiles, Oscar Molina, Anna Mori, Frédéric Naedenoen, Maria Norbäck, Klemen Širok, Maylin Stanic and Lars Walter 5. Comparing the national contexts Laura Beuker, François Pichault and Frédéric Naedenoen 6. Continuity and discontinuity in collective representation Anna Mori and Bas Koene 7. Conclusions: perspectives on self-employment in Europe Manuela Samek Lodovici, François Pichault and Renata Semenza Afterword: conditions for a new social dialogue in Europe Bernard Gazier Index

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Book SynopsisOffering new knowledge and insights into European job markets, this book explores how young men and women experience job insecurity. Focusing on the ways in which young adults deal with this by actively increasing their chances of getting a job through a variety of methods, it shows how governmental policies can be altered to reduce early job insecurity.By combining analysis of original data collected through a variety of innovative methods, the book compares the trajectories of early job insecurity in nine European countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. It explores the differing reactions to the 2008 Great Recession and socio-economic and institutional characteristics of each country, analysing the strengths and weaknesses of different national policies. Contributions from experts in the field investigate the long-term consequences of having difficulty finding suitable and stable jobs in young adulthood, including 'scarring' in the form of weaker long-term employment prospects, lower life earnings and reduced well-being.Incorporating high-level academic research with policy recommendations, this insightful book is essential reading for advanced public policy and European studies scholars, as well as policymakers at national and European levels.Contributors include: D.S. Abebe, S. Ayllón, K.K. Bøhler, M. Bussi, D. Buttler, L.A. Helbling, B. Hvinden, C. Hyggen, C. Imdorf, V. Krasteva, C. Lewis, A. McDonnell, J. O'Reilly, D. Parsanoglou, S. Sacchi, M.A. Schoyen, L.P. Shi, R. Stoilova, I. Tolgensbakk, J.S. Vedeler, A. YfantiTrade Review'Comprehensive and well-articulated, this book provides a new and original investigation of early experiences of job insecurity in Europe and its effects on youth well-being and future employability. Given its innovative approach that goes beyond the ''usual'' economic argument, the book is a must-read text for every scholar, practitioner and policymaker who wants to broaden their understanding of youth and their perceptions of joblessness and precarity.' --Massimiliano Mascherini, Eurofound, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Bjørn Hvinden, Christer Hyggen, Mi Ah Schoyen and Jacqueline O’Reilly Part I: Wellbeing and overcoming early job insecurity 2. Employment status and wellbeing among youth. Explaining variation across European countries Dominik Buttler 3. Four narratives of overcoming early job insecurity in Europe: A capabilities approach Kjetil Klette Bøhler, Veneta Krasteva, Jacqueline O’Reilly, Janikke Solstad, Vedeler, Rumiana Stoilova and Ida Tolgensbakk Part II: Scarring 4. Comparing long-term scarring effects of unemployment across countries: The impact of graduating during an economic downturn Laura Alexandra Helbling, Stefan Sacchi and Christian Imdorf 5. The impact of active labour market policies on employers’ evaluation of young unemployed: A comparison between Greece and Norway. Dimitris Parsanoglou, Aggeliki Yfanti, Christer Hyggen and Lulu P. Shi 6. Moderators of unemployment and wage scarring during the transition to young adulthood: Evidence from Norway Dawit Shawel Abebe and Christer Hyggen Part III: Social resilience 7. Social resilience in facing precarity: Young people ‘rising to the occasion’ Margherita Bussi, Mi Ah Schoyen, Janikke Solstad Vedeler, Jacqueline O’Reilly, Ann McDonnell and Christine Lewis 8. Mobile young individuals: subjective experiences of migration and return Veneta Krasteva, Ann McDonnell and Ida Tolgensbakk 9. Drug use and early job insecurity Sara Ayllón, Margherita Bussi, Jacqueline O’Reilly, Mi Ah Schoyen, Ida Tolgensbakk and Ann McDonnell Part IV: Policies to overcome early career insecurity 10. Public policy on career education, information, advice and guidance: Developments in the United Kingdom and Norway Christine Lewis and Ida Tolgensbakk 11. Conclusion Jacqueline O’Reilly, Bjørn Hvinden, Mi Ah Schoyen and Christer Hyggen Index

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Book SynopsisDependent self-employment is widely perceived as a rapidly growing form of precarious work conducted by marginalised lower-skilled workers subcontracted by large corporations. Unpacking a comprehensive survey of 35 European countries, Colin C. Williams and Ioana Alexandra Horodnic map the lived realities of the distribution and characteristics of dependent self-employment to challenge this broad and erroneous perception. Featuring rigorous empirical research, Dependent Self-Employment moves beyond the reliance on anecdotal evidence to fill in gaping lacunae in our understanding of employment. Reporting on the European Working Conditions Survey of 2015, this impressive book provides a crucial contribution to our understanding of dependent self-employment in the 21st century, challenging not only academic perceptions, but also depictions of work in the media and political discourse. The authors expertly navigate the 'grey zone' of defining dependent self-employment, embracing the spectrum of employment relationships and outlining the limits to the rights and authority of the dependently self-employed. Bold and comprehensive, this timely book offers critical insight for researchers at all levels exploring the nature and distribution of employment in Europe. Given the current public debates on the platform economy, this book will also prove useful for practitioners and policy-makers in labour inspectorates, tax administrations and social security institutions worldwide. Trade Review'How can we tackle the deficit of work faced by dependent self-employed workers? This topic is timely, complex and under review by policy makers, academics and researchers in EU, OECD and ILO. The book sheds light on the phenomenon and policies in 35 European countries. In addition, the study supports evidence based discussions and policy making on this employment model.' --Päivi Kantanen, Ministerial adviser, Senior representative of Finland in UDW Platform'Williams and Horodnic's incisive analysis of the growing phenomenon ''dependent self-employment'' helps to cast light on the murky and poorly understood nature of contemporary employment relationships. This theoretically-informed and empirically-based account of Europe-wide self-employment tackles prevailing stereotypes. The result is a balanced and lucid assessment that develops theory, contributes empirical evidence and offers positive policy options that advance of the goal of decent work.' --Monder Ram OBE, Aston University, UK'A comprehensive read on dependent self-employment, this book - perhaps for the first time - positions a politico-economic lens to a sociological theme, traditionally ignored as ''causal work''.' --Anjula Gurtoo, Indian Institute of Science, IndiaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I Theorizing Dependent Self-Employment 2. Dependent self-employment in broader context: trends in employment 3. Dominant depictions of dependent self-employment Part II Dependent Self-Employment in Practice 4. Prevalence and trends 5. Who engages in dependent self-employment? 6. Working conditions of the dependent self-employed Part III Policy Options 7. Approaches towards addressing the misclassification of employment 8. The wider context: employment and social protection 9. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisProviding original insights into the factors causing early job insecurity in European countries, this book examines the short- and long-term consequences. It assesses public policies seeking to diminish the risks to young people facing prolonged job insecurity and reduce the severity of these impacts.Based on the findings of a major study of nine European countries, this book examines the diverse strategies that countries across the continent use to help young people overcome employment barriers. The authors present recommendations for governments to improve the job market environment and to support young people in finding suitable and stable employment.A vital tool for European policymakers, this book provides new knowledge that will help improve existing policies, at both national and European levels. The detailed analysis of original data collected through innovative methods will prove highly useful to public policy and European studies scholars.Contributors include: M.-L. Assmann, P. Boyadjieva, M. Bussi, I. Dingeldey, O. Hora, M. Horáková, B. Hvinden, C. Hyggen, P. Ilieva-Trichkova, C. Imdorf, M. Karamessini, P. Michon, J. O'Reilly, D. Parsanoglou, S. Sacchi, R. Samuel, M.A. Schoyen, L.P. Shi, T. Sirovátka, G. Stamatopoulou, L. Steinberg, R. Stoilova, M. Symeonaki, A. Yfanti, G. YordanovaTrade Review'This excellent book analyses the challenge of youth unemployment, by focusing on its causes and consequences, during the Great Recession in Europe. Throughout the volume, it uses the notions of resilience, capability, and active agency, while also considering policy responses at various levels of governance. It is a very clearly-articulated book, conceptually and analytically, which should be read by academics, students and policy-makers interested in welfare and labour market issues.' --Caroline De La Porte, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark'This is the first volume of one of the most innovative studies on unemployment in recent years, exploring the sources of the persisting high rates of youth unemployment since the Great Recession. It provides valuable insight into the diverse patterns of youth unemployment and insecurity in the EU, the contribution of employer recruitment policies to scarring effects and the changing nature of national and EU policy responses.' --Duncan Gallie, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK'A compelling collection of chapters addressing the crucial issues of the consequences of job insecurity and exclusion in the transition to adulthood and the policies to tackle them. A must read for students, researchers, scholars and policymakers in the field of youth labour market integration.' --Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo, SpainTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Bjørn Hvinden, Jacqueline O’Reilly, Tomáš Sirovátka and Mi Ah Schoyen PART I: THE PROBLEM OF EARLY JOB INSECURITY AND THE CRISIS 2. Mapping early job insecurity impacts of the crisis in Europe Maria Karamessini, Maria Symeonaki, Dimitris Parsanoglou and Glykeria Stamatopoulou 3. Factors explaining youth unemployment and early job insecurity in Europe Maria Karamessini, Maria Symeonaki, Glykeria Stamatopoulou and Dimitris Parsanoglou 4. The Great Recession and the youth labour market in European countries: The demographic versus the labour market effect Piotr Michoń 5. Scars of early job insecurity across Europe: Insights from a multi-country employer study Christian Imdorf, Lulu P. Shi, Stefan Sacchi, Robin Samuel, Christer Hyggen, Rumiana Stoilova, Gabriela Yordanova, Pepka Boyadjieva, Petya Ilieva-Trichkova, Dimitris Parsanoglou and Aggeliki Yfanti 6. (Un)realized agency in a situation of early job insecurity: Patterns of young people’s agency regarding employment Pepka Boyadjieva and Petya Ilieva-Trichkova PART II: POLICIES FOR DEALING WITH EARLY JOB INSECURITY 7. Diversity of youth policy regimes and early job insecurity – towards an integrated approach Ondřej Hora, Markéta Horáková and Tomáš Sirovátka 8. Policy adaptation to address early job insecurity in Europe Ondřej Hora, Markéta Horáková and Tomáš Sirovátka 9. Horizontal and vertical coordination of the European Youth Guarantee Irene Dingeldey, Lisa Steinberg and Marie-Luise Assmann 10. Has the European Social Fund been effective in supporting young people? Margherita Bussi, Bjørn Hvinden and Mi Ah Schoyen PART III: CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS 11. Implications for policymaking Bjørn Hvinden, Jacqueline O´Reilly, Tomáš Sirovátka, Mi Ah Schoyen and Christer Hyggen Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisStarting from the premise that learning and career development happen naturally and optimally through collaboration and social relationships, this book challenges the dominant employability skills discourse by exploring socially connected and networked perspectives to learning and teaching in higher education. With 10 empirical case studies of educational practice, chapters investigate the development of learner capabilities, teaching approaches, and institutional strategies to foster lifelong graduate employability through social connectedness. The book argues that higher education institutions have placed themselves at a disadvantage in learning and teaching by limiting and prescribing interactions that prevent multidisciplinary and cross-functional collaboration, and embeddedness into wider industry and community networks. The book offers new strategies and pedagogic approaches that can support learners to build, maintain and make the most of social connections for purposeful participation in life and work. It also demonstrates how universities can forge effective partnerships internally as well as with industry and community partners to ensure the relevance and vibrancy of university learning. Offering an alternative perspective on learning and teaching in higher education with international relevance, this book is a practical resource that can be used by educators to inform teaching practice and curriculum development. It will be essential for university leadership, as well as academics and researchers focused on education policy and university management.Table of ContentsContents: 1. A Connected Approach to Learning in Higher Education Ruth Bridgstock and Neil Tippett PART I CONNECTEDNESS CAPABILITIES 2. Connectedness Capabilities Ruth Bridgstock and Neil Tippett 3. Students’ Professional Digital Identities Mandy Lupton, Kay Oddone and Neal Dreamson 4. Connectedness Capabilities of Non-Traditional Students: Pedagogical implications Margarietha J. de Villiers Scheepers, Joanna McIntyre, Gail Crimmins and Peter English 5. Social Connectedness and Graduate Employability: Exploring the Professional Networks of Graduates from Business and Creative Industries Ruth Bridgstock, Denise Jackson, Kate Lloyd and Matalena Tofa PART II CONNECTEDNESS PEDAGOGIES 6. Connectedness Pedagogies Ruth Bridgstock and Neil Tippett 7. Connectedness Learning in the Life Sciences: LinkedIn as an assessment task for employability and career exploration Jason L. Brown, Michael Healy, Louise Lexis and Brianna L. Julien 8. Indigenous Perspectives on Connected and Networked Learning: Towards holistic connectedness pedagogies Peter Radoll, Peter Copeman, Scott Heyes, Mary Walsh, Sam Byrnand, Brian Egloff with Lance Bartram, Kerani Cameron, Fehin Coffey, Sarah Falusi, Victoria Hales, Robert Liesagang, David Jolley, Catherine Lampe, Natalie Lutan, Joshua Naivalurua, Chilli Platt, Thomas Rigon and Caroline Wallace. Project Elder: Aunty Roslyn Brown, University of Canberra 9. The Capstone Experience: Five principles for a connected curriculum Mitch Goodwin, Kay Are, Michael ‘Maxx’ Schmit, Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins, Wajeehah Aayeshah and Elizabeth Lakey 10. Curriculum Transformation for Graduate Connectedness and Employability: Perspectives from the University of Wollongong Simon Bedford and Kenton Bell PART III INSTITUTIONAL ENABLING STRATEGIES 11. Institutional Enabling Strategies Ruth Bridgstock and Neil Tippett 12. Developing a Connected Learning Community for Social Entrepreneurship through University and High School Collaboration Jeremy Kerr, Natalie Wright and Timothy Barraud 13. Integrating Connectedness Learning into Institutional Program Review Processes in an Australian Regional University Sara Hammer, Peter Ayriss, Marita Basson, Beata Batorowicz, Jo Devine, Melissa Forbes, Alexander Kist, Tessa McCredie, Amanda McCubbin and Bill Wade 14. The Connected University: Connectedness learning across a lifetime Kirsty Kitto, Julieanne Cutrupi, Mark Philips, Gabrielle Gardiner, Moein Ghodrati and Simon Buckingham Shum 15. Future Connections: Implications for connectedness strategy, pedagogy and capability in Higher Education Ruth Bridgstock and Neil Tippett Index

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces readers to some key concepts in post-Keynesian and heterodox economics, in particular the importance of finance in relation to income distribution and growth. The book explores various aspects of financialization, such as its role in pension funds, and explores its consequences especially in developing economies. Readers will recognize other key concepts such as the role of banks, and the effectiveness of monetary policy and its transmission mechanism, and unconventional policies, such as quantitative easing. Considerable space is given to income inequality, a topic that has become increasingly important. Authors explore the growing importance of household debt, and policies that could address inequality. Finally, the book discusses the rising importance of dualism, a much under-researched topic in heterodox economics. Policy makers and scholars alike, especially those in Heterodox Economics, will find the book a much need addition to the field.Trade Review'This invaluable collection brings together the work of the world's leading Post-Keynesian thinkers. With great verve and originality the contributors take on most of the pressing theoretical and policy issues or our time-finance and financialization, monetary policy, economic growth, distribution, and economic dualism. This book belongs on the shelf of academic macroeconomists, their students, and every politician seeking insight and inspiration that will help get us out of the present morass.' --Ilene Grabel, University of Denver, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Louis-Philippe Rochon and Virginie Monvoisin PART I POST-KEYNESIAN VIEWS ON FINANCE AND FINANCIALIZATION 1. Measuring finance for the economy and finance for finance Marcello Spanò 2. Economic limits of the originate to distribute model of banking Óscar Dejuán and John S. L. McCombie 3. Private pension funds in emerging economies: From broken promises to financialisation Bruno Bonizzi and Diego Guevara 4. Financialization and bancarization of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico: the financial services transformations as from the post-crisis period Alicia Girón and Marcia Solorza PART II POST-KEYNESIAN VIEWS ON Distribution and Growth 5. Macroeconomic implications of inequality and household debt: European evidence Jonathan Perraton 6. How can policy tackle inequality in 21st century? Hanna Szymborska 7. Economic policies and growth regimes in France (1974-2016) Hélène de Largentaye and Renaud du Tertre 8. Non-conventional fiscal rules in a Kaleckian model of growth and income distribution with external debt Pablo G. Bortz, Gabriel Michelena, and Fernando Toledo PART III POST-KEYNESIAN VIEWS ON Monetary Policy 9. The transmission of monetary policy in the US: Testing the credit channel and the role of endogenous money Nathan Perry and Carlos Schönerwald 10. Corporate debt expansion in emerging countries after 2008: Profile, determinants and policy implications Cristiano Duarte 11. From trillemma to dilemma: monetary policy after Bretton Woods Hasan Cömert 12. Shifting frames of the expert debate: Quantitative Easing, international Macro-finance and the potential impact of Post-Keynesian Scholarship Max Nagel and Matthias Thiemann PART IV SOME NOTES ON THE DUAL ECONOMY Introduction Helene Delargentaye 13. Dualism: more or less? David Leadbeater 14. Do the robots come to liberate us or to deepen our inequality? The uncertain macrostructural foundations of the robotic age Arpita Bhattacharjee and Gary Dymski Index

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Book SynopsisIn the coming decades robots and artificial intelligence will fundamentally change our world. In doing so they offer the hope of a golden future, one where the elderly are looked after by companion robots, where the disabled can walk, robot security protects us all, remote rural areas have access to the best urban facilities and there is almost limitless prosperity. But there are dangers. There are fears in the labour market that robots will replace jobs, leaving many unemployed, and increase inequality. In relying too much on robots, people may reduce their human contact and see their cognitive abilities decline. There are even concerns, reflected in many science fiction films, that robots may eventually become competitors with humans for survival. This book looks at both the history of robots, in science and in fiction, as well as the science behind robots. Specific chapters analyse the impact of robots on the labour market, people's attitudes to robots, the impact of robots on society, and the appropriate policies to pursue to prepare our world for the robot revolution. Overall the book strikes a cautionary tone. Robots will change our world dramatically and they will also change human beings. These important issues are examined from the perspective of an economist, but the book is intended to appeal to a wider audience in the social sciences and beyond.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Innovation 2. The History and Development of Robots 3. Robots now and in the Future 4. The Science of Robots 5. The impact on employment, unemployment and wages 6. The Economic, Social and Political Impact 7. People’s Hopes and Fears 8. Policies to deal with potential problems and to realise the promise 9. A Changing World of Innovation References Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts. Highlighting the diversity of experience of platform work, case studies illustrate how general trends play out, both in online and location-based labour platforms, across the globe. Chapters illustrate a need for a post-pandemic regulatory requirement of digital labour platforms at different policy levels, whilst providing a general overview of key topics. Interlinking contributions with a global scope and coverage identify the challenges faced and offer thoughtful regulatory solutions. This engaging book will be an invaluable resource for academics of labour economics, legal and business studies and sociology. It will also benefit policy makers in social and political geography and political science looking for a deeper understanding of the topic.Trade Review‘This collected volume on the world of work produced by platform companies should be required reading for anyone interested in the modern politics of labor. Drahokoupil and Vandaele have brought together cutting-edge scholars and scholarship to historicize the emergence of the platform economy and to understand its complex, transnational implications for work and workers. Together, the chapters help to contextualize both the challenges and opportunities posed by digital labor and should be required reading for regulators, policymakers, and academics alike.’ -- Veena Dubal, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, US‘Here’s everything you need to know about the platform economy and workers—and perhaps hadn’t even thought of asking—in this comprehensive Modern Guide. It covers emerging trends, particular cases, regulatory issues and much else, and is likely to become an essential guide for researchers and policy makers.’ -- Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: Janus meets Proteus in the platform economy 1 Jan Drahokoupil and Kurt Vandaele PART I CONTEXT AND ISSUES 2 The business models of labour platforms: Creating an uncertain future 33 Jan Drahokoupil 3 Moving on, out or up: The externalization of work to B2B platforms 49 Pamela Meil and Mehtap Akgü. 4 Measuring the platform economy: Different approaches to estimating the size of the online platform workforce 66 Agnieszka Piasna 5 A historical perspective on the drivers of digital labour platforms 81 Gérard Valenduc 6 The platform economy at the forefront of a changing world of work: Implications for occupational health and safety 96 Pierre Bérastégui and Sacha Garben 7 How place and space matter to union organizing in the platform economy 112 Benjamin Herr, Philip Schörpf and Jörg Flecker PART II REGULATING PLATFORM WORK 8 Embedding platforms in contemporary labour law 129 Valerio De Stefano and Mathias Wouters 9 The regulation of platform work in the European Union: Mapping the challenges 145 Sacha Garben 10 Workers, platforms and the state: The struggle over digital labour platform regulation 162 Sai Englert, Mark Graham, Sandra Fredman, Darcy du Toit, Adam Badger, Richard Heeks and Jean-Paul Van Belle 11 Trade union responses to platform work: An evolving tension between mainstream and grassroots approaches 177 Simon Joyce and Mark Stuart PART III CASE STUDIES ACROSS THE GLOBE: ONLINE LABOUR PLATFORMS 12 The uneven potential of online platform work for human development at the global margins 194 Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta, Alex J. Wood, Helena Barnard, Isis Hjorth and David Peter Simon 13 From outsourcing to crowdsourcing: Assessing the implications for Indian workers of different outsourcing strategies 209 Janine Berg, Uma Rani and Nora Gobel 14 The geographic and linguistic variety of online labour markets: The cases of Russia and Ukraine 225 Mariya Aleksynska, Andrey Shevchuk and Denis Strebkov PART IV CASE STUDIES ACROSS THE GLOBE: LOCATION-BASED LABOUR PLATFORMS 15 Aliada and Alia: Contrasting for-profit and non-profit platforms for domestic work in Mexico and the United States 242 Andrea Santiago Páramo and Carlos Piñeyro Nelson 16 The role of worker collectives among app-based food delivery couriers in France, Germany and Norway: All the same or different? 258 Kristin Jesnes, Denis Neumann, Vera Trappmann and Pauline de Becdelièvre 17 The pitfalls and promises of successfully organizing Foodora couriers in Toronto 274 Raoul Gebert 18 Labour management and resistance among platform-based food delivery couriers in Beijing 290 Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ping Sun and Julie Chen 19 Struggles over the power and meaning of digital labour platforms: A comparison of the Vienna, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles taxi markets 308 Hannah Johnston and Susanne Pernicka 20 Passenger transport in Australia: Injury compensation, public policy and the health pandemic 323 David Peetz PART V CLOSING THOUGHTS 21 Institutional experimentation and the challenges of platform labour 339 Maria Figueroa Index

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Book SynopsisThis Modern Guide presents a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary thought on the informal economy, which, as the author demonstrates – far from being a peripheral feature of the global economy – is a system in which the majority of the global workforce are employed and which has pervasive detrimental effects. Formalising it is therefore a priority for most governments. Employing theoretical and empirical methodologies, Colin C. Williams explores the latest research on methods of understanding and measuring the informal economy in its various forms, and discusses the rationale behind its participants. Its rigorous discussion of the need to shift away from solely using tools that punish the practice and towards aligning social norms with the regulations of formal institutions is complemented by a rich analysis of how jobs and enterprises across the world can be encouraged to make the transition towards formalism. Incentives, education and reform are among the strategies advocated in this Modern Guide’s compelling and lucid roadmap for the transition to formality.An invaluable resource for policymakers involved in tax, social security and labour policies, belonging to both governments and supra-national institutions, the book will also be valuable for academics and researchers in sociology, economics and business studies, especially those with an interest in taxation, industrial relations, entrepreneurship and labour economics.Trade Review‘Peerless and prolific, Professor Colin Williams has again produced an essential guide for anyone wanting a concise yet sophisticated introduction to contemporary issues in the “informal economy”. With admirable clarity and precision, Professor Williams deftly explains the magnitude, characteristics and drivers of the informal economy. Nuanced assessments of theoretical and policy choices inform the “roadmap” this text provides to understanding such an integral feature of the global economy. Seasoned scholars and newcomers alike will find value in Professor William’s latest contribution to this important topic.’ -- Monder Ram, Aston University, UK‘An indispensable book to understanding one of the most important policy challenges of the 21st century: how to facilitate transition from the informal to the formal economy to ensure sustainable development and decent work. Professor Williams provides an intelligent, evidence-based and well-structured critical contribution to the knowledge of both the concept of informal economy and policy options for tackling the informal economy.’ -- Frédéric Lapeyre, International Labour Organization‘Colin William’s book is a must read classic for anyone looking for an in depth understanding of the informal economy. . . the book nails the pulse of the modern informal system.’ -- Anjula Gurtoo, Indian Institute of Science, India‘This book provides an excellent bridge between academia and policymakers by offering a synthesis of the latest state of research in the field of the informal economy, presented in an easy to understand and yet a comprehensive way. Critical insights for researchers and policymakers in the field of tax administration, labour and social security policies are provided.’ -- Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ University of Iași, RomaniaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the informal economy 1 PART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 2. Evolution of theories explaining the informal economy 3. Methods for measuring the size of the informal economy PART II MAGNITUDE AND CHARACTER OF THE INFORMAL ECONOMY 4. Prevalence of the informal economy in global perspective 5. Types of work in the informal economy 6. Who participates in the different types of informal work and why? PART III POLICY APPROACHES 7. Policy options for tackling the informal economy: objectives and policy measures 8. Deterring participation in the informal economy 9. Incentives to operate in the formal economy 10. Education and awareness raising to encourage formalisation 11. Reforming formal institutions to encourage formalisation 12. Conclusions and a future roadmap for the transition to formality References Index

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