Labour / income economics Books

Book SynopsisThe rapid influx of women into the labour market has come to be recognised as one of the most important economic and social developments of the latter half of the 20th century. Women in the Labor Market is an authoritative collection of those papers which have made the greatest contribution to our understanding of this development and its causes. The emphasis is on empirical work which has served either to support or undermine the theoretical foundations of this field, but also included are papers by sociologists who provide insights on economic issues not found in the work of economists.The opening section explores the causes of women's participation in the labour market. The following section investigates the nature of the work in which women are involved and the explanations for this occupational distribution. The question of earnings differentials between male and female occupations and the trends and explanations for this gender wage gap are addressed in the third section, while the penultimate section offers an exploration of the policies which have been proposed in order to improve the status of women in the labour market. In conclusion, the impact of women's work on their lives and families is evaluated.Trade Review'The articles reproduced here are among those that made the most significant contributions to knowledge of women's role in the labour market, and of how policies influence the outcome. . . . It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of these volumes, bringing together as they do such a wide range of empirical research on some of the most important issues in social policy at the end of the twentieth century.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Explaining Women’s Labor Force Participation Part II: Occupational Distribution Part III: The Male/Female Earnings Ratio Part IV: Policies to Improve Women’s Status in the Labor Market Part V: Impact of Women’s Labor Force Participation on the Family Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis book dismantles the arguments used by policy makers to justify the abandonment of full employment as a valid goal of national governments. Bill Mitchell and Joan Muysken trace the theoretical analysis of the nature and causes of unemployment over the last 150 years and argue that the shift from involuntary to 'natural rate' conceptions of unemployment since the 1960s has driven an ideological backlash against Keynesian policy interventions. The authors contend that neo-liberal governments now consider unemployment to be an individual problem rather than a reflection of systemic policy failure and that they are content to use unemployment as a policy instrument to control inflation and coerce the unemployed with work tests and compliance programmes rather than provide sufficient employment. They present a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of this policy approach, with a refreshing new framework for understanding modern monetary economies. The authors show that the reinstatement of full employment with price stability is a viable policy goal that can be achieved by activist fiscal policy through the introduction of a Job Guarantee.Full Employment Abandoned will appeal to graduate and postgraduate students and researchers of economics and politics with an interest in macroeconomic policy and the labour market, particularly unemployment and neo-liberal policy frameworks.Trade Review'This book by William Mitchell and Joan Muysken is both important and timely. It deals with the issue of the abandonment of full employment as an objective of economic policy in the OECD countries. It argues persuasively that macroeconomic policy has been restrictive over the recent, and not so recent past, and has produced substantial open and disguised unemployment. But the authors show how a job guarantee policy can enable workers, who would otherwise be unemployed, to earn a wage and not depend on welfare support. If such a policy is fully supported by appropriate fiscal and monetary programmes, it can create full employment with price stability, which the authors label as a Non-Accelerating-Inflation-Buffer Employment Ratio (NAIBER). This book is essential reading for any one wishing to understand how we can return to full employment as the normal state of affairs.' -- Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Full Employment: Changing Views and Policies 1. The Full Employment Framework and its Demise 2. Early Views on Unemployment and the Phillips Curve 3. The Phillips Curve and Shifting Views on Unemployment 4. The Troublesome NAIRU: The Hoax that Undermined Full Employment Part II: Full Employment Abandoned: Shifting Sands and Policy Failures 5. The Shift to Full Employability 6. Inflation First: The New Mantra of Macroeconomics 7. The Neglected Role of Aggregate Demand Part III: The Urgency of Full Employment: Foundations for an Active Policy 8. A Monetary Framework for Fiscal Policy Activism 9. Buffer Stocks and Price Stability 10. Conclusion: The Urgency of Full Employment References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Not Just for the Money Professor Frey challenges traditional economic theory and argues that people do not act in expectation of monetary gain alone, nor do they work solely because they are paid. Furthermore, the author claims that higher monetary compensation as well as regulations crowd-out motivation in important circumstances. Offering higher pay may make people less committed to their work and may reduce their performance. They thus behave in exactly the opposite way the fundamental price-effect of economics predicts.The first part of the book considers the Crowding-Out Effect and the Motivational Spill-Over Effect. The second part explores a large number of applications to constitutional questions, various policy issues and the organization of firms. The final part discusses the substantial consequences for policy making and economic theory.This path breaking book is bound to create controversy and debate. It will appeal not only to economists but to a wide range of social scientists who want to go beyond the traditional assumption of economic man.Trade Review'What he [Bruno Frey] offers is both challenging and pervasive in its relevance. He is ambitious enough to aspire to make economics less presumptive and less general, but - as he himself observes - earlier efforts to integrate psychology into economics have been noted while precious little effect on economics as a whole. His book is provocative and interesting and likely to yield some further empirical efforts to measure putative crowding-out effects, but scepticism and inertia are likely to be difficult barriers to overcome.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: The Crowding-Out Effect 2. Everyday Experiences 3. The Psychological Background 4. Integration into Economics 5. Motivational Spill-Over Effect Part II: Applications 6. A Strict or Lenient Constitution? 7. Environmental Policy 8. Siting Policy, or: the NIMBY-problem (with Felix Oberholzer-Gee) 9. Social and Organizational Policy 10. Work Motivation and Compensation Policy Part III Conclusions 11. Consequences for Economic Policy 12. Consequences for Economic Theory References Index

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Book SynopsisPromises, Promises examines from a libertarian perspective, the differing methods and levels of success of adapting contract law in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and especially Russia in the wake of political change. The author analyses the roles of government power and policy, opportunism and private regulatory mechanisms within the pattern of change.Table of ContentsAlternative methods of legal change; contracts and opportunism; private mechanisms; Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland; Russia; government policy; creation of efficient rules; implications.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive two volume collection is designed to introduce the reader to the systems of innovation literature. This is the first time that one major reference collection brings together some of the best known and most provocative literature from a variety of different perspectives, such as national, sectoral and regional systems of innovation. Classics such as the seminal papers by Schumpeter and List as well as modern authors are included, and the collection focuses on issues of economic growth, competitiveness and employment. Systems of Innovation will be essential reading for researchers and practitioners and will be an invaluable source of reference for use in innovation courses at university level.Trade Review'. . . these two big volumes achieve to demonstrate that there is a strong interest in using a system approach in order to study the mechanisms of innovation, of building capabilities and of economic growth.'Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I An Introduction to Systems of Innovation 1. Charles Edquist (1997), ‘Systems of Innovation Approaches – Their Emergence and Characteristics’ Part II National Systems of Innovation 2. Chris Freeman (1995), ‘The “National System of Innovation” in Historical Perspective’ 3. Bengt-Åke Lundvall (1992), ‘Introduction’ 4. Parimal Patel and Keith Pavitt (1994), ‘National Innovation Systems: Why They are Important, and How They Might be Measured and Compared’ 5. Jorge Niosi, Paolo Saviotti, Bertrand Bellon and Michael Crow (1993), ‘National Systems of Innovation: In Search of a Workable Concept’ Part III Regional Systems of Innovation 6. Michael Storper (1995), ‘The Resurgence of Regional Economies, Ten Years Later: The Region as a Nexus of Untraded Interdependencies’ 7. Philip Cooke, Mikel Gomez Uranga and Goio Etxebarria (1997), ‘Regional Innovation Systems: Institutional and Organisational Dimensions’ 8. Alfred Marshall (1947), ‘Industrial Organization, Continued. The Concentration of Specialized Industries in Particular Localities’ 9. Anders Malmberg and Peter Maskell (1997), ‘Towards an Explanation of Regional Specialization and Industry Agglomeration’ 10. Anna Lee Saxenian (1996), ‘Inside-Out: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128’ Part IV Sectoral and Technological Systems 11. B. Carlsson and R. Stankiewicz (1991), ‘On the Nature, Function and Composition of Technological Systems’ 12. Erik Dahmén (1988), ‘“Development Blocks” in Industrial Economics’ 13. Stefano Breschi and Franco Malerba (1997), ‘Sectoral Innovation Systems: Technological Regimes, Schumpeterian Dynamics, and Spatial Boundaries’ 14. Richard R. Nelson (1996), ‘The Evolution of Comparative or Competitive Advantage: A Preliminary Report on a Study’ 15. Michael E. Porter (1998), ‘Clusters and the New Economics of Competition’ 16. William Lazonick (1993), ‘Industry Clusters versus Global Webs: Organizational Capabilities in the American Economy’ 17. Jan Fagerberg (1995), ‘User-Producer Interaction, Learning and Comparative Advantage’ Part V Case Studies of Systems of Innovation 18. Richard R. Nelson (1992), ‘National Innovation Systems: A Retrospective on a Study’ 19. Linsu Kim (1993), ‘National System of Industrial Innovation: Dynamics of Capability Building in Korea’ 20. Ludovico Alcorta and Wilson Peres (1998), ‘Innovation Systems and Technological Specialization in Latin America and the Caribbean’ 21. Susan Bartholomew (1997), ‘National Systems of Biotechnology Innovation: Complex Interdependence in the Global System’ 22. Bo Carlsson (1995), ‘The Technological System for Factory Automation: An International Comparison’ Name Index Volume II: Part I Interactive Learning and Networks of Innovation 1. Stephen J. Kline and Nathan Rosenberg (1986), ‘An Overview of Innovation’ 2. Chris DeBresson and Fernand Amesse (1991), ‘Networks of Innovators: A Review and Introduction to the Issue’ 3. Bengt-Åke Lundvall (1988), ‘Innovation as an Interactive Process: From User-Producer Interaction to the National Systems of Innovation’ Part II Evolutionary Theories of Innovation 4. Joseph A. Schumpeter (1979/1976), ‘The Process of Creative Destruction’ 5. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (1977), ‘In Search of a Useful Theory of Innovation’ 6. Giovanni Dosi (1988), ‘The Nature of the Innovative Process’ 7. Maureen McKelvey (1997), ‘Using Evolutionary Theory to Define Systems of Innovation’ Part III Institutional Theories 8. Charles Edquist and Björn Johnson (1997), ‘Institutions and Organisations in Systems of Innovation’ 9. John Zysman (1994), ‘How Institutions Create Historically Rooted Trajectories of Growth’ 10. Friedrich List (1885), ‘The National Division of Commercial Operations and the Confederation of the National Productive Forces’ 11. Nathan Rosenberg (1960), ‘Some Institutional Aspects of the Wealth of Nations’ Part IV Innovations, Growth and Employment 12. Moses Abramovitz (1989), ‘The Proximate Sources of Growth’, ‘The Search for Deeper Causes: Technological Effort as Investment’, ‘The Search for Deeper Causes: National and Historical Determinants’ and ‘Longer Thoughts about Long-term Growth’ 13. Birgitte Gregersen and Björn Johnson (1998), ‘How do Innovations Affect Economic Growth? Some Different Approaches in Economics’ 14. Richard R. Nelson (1990), ‘Capitalism as an Engine of Progress’ 15. Charles Edquist, Leif Hommen and Maureen McKelvey (1998), ‘Product Versus Process Innovation: Implications for Employment’ Part V Dynamics of Government Policy and Firm Strategy 16. J.S. Metcalfe (1997), ‘Science Policy and Technology Policy in a Competitive Economy’ 17. Richard G. Lipsey and Kenneth Carlaw (1998), ‘Technology Policy: Basic Concepts’ 18. Maureen McKelvey and François Texier (2000), ‘Surviving Technological Discontinuities through Evolutionary Systems of Innovation: Ericsson and Mobile Telecommunication’ 19. Bo Carlsson and Staffan Jacobsson (1997), ‘Diversity Creation and Technological Systems: A Technology Policy Perspective’ 20. Michael Borrus and Jay Stowsky (1998), ‘Technology Policy and Economic Growth’ 21. Charles Edquist, Leif Hommen, Björn Johnson, Tarmo Lemola, Franco Malerba, Thomas Reiss and Keith Smith (1998), ‘The Systems of Innovation Approach and its General Policy Implications’ and ‘Specific Policy Implications of ISE and its Sub-projects’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisUnemployment in Theory and Practice examines the effectiveness of current policies in the battle against unemployment. It uses a variety of country case studies to analyse the range of potential causes of and cures for unemployment and analyses the complex nature of labour markets. This volume surveys the policy options and prescribes a mix of both macro and microeconomic policies to combat unemployment effectively. The contributors address the issue of policy targeted groups, including self-employed and older workers, and offer a comprehensive survey of key empirical findings. Issues considered include the rising number of self-employed in Australia and the labour market prospects for the aged in Germany. Particular labour market policies are discussed including the role of training and concerted international action through social democratic and trade union collaboration. The nature of unemployment in countries characterized by economic and social transformation, such as Bulgaria and Poland, is also analysed in detail. The final section of the book is dedicated to wage policy and compensatory pay for the unemployed. It challenges the conventional neoclassical wisdom that wage constraints and limited trade union power will necessarily lead to labour market improvements and reduced unemployment. Evidence from Germany and South Africa is used to argue that collective action is a promising policy alternative. International in scope, the book will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics, political economy, industrial relations and international economics. It will also appeal to professional economists, sociologists, political scientists, trade unionists and policy advisors.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Unemployment: From Macro to Micro Perspectives 2. Identifying Policy Target Groups 3. Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies 4. Unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe 5. Wage Policy and Compensatory Pay

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Book SynopsisThis up to date book provides the first evidence on employee-ownership in Central and Eastern Europe. This subject has attracted growing interest in recent years, since the sale and free distribution of enterprise shares to employed workers and mangers have surprisingly become frequent privatization methods in many transitional economies. The book highlights some of the crucial issues which have been debated in recent economic literature, in particular the advantages and risks of employee-ownership in comparison with other privatization methods. It also provides an overview of individual countries' experiences and makes some important policy recommendations. Privatization Surprises in Transition Economies is a wide-ranging survey which considers employee- ownership within privatization legislation and its diffusion and implementation problems in 14 transitional economies. Using empirical evidence on the impact of this privatization method, the authors address issues such as enterprise restructuring, employment, wages, productivity and investment policies. They conclude that employee-ownership has a bright future, and that the fears expressed by many policy advisers regarding the negative implications of employee ownership were largely exaggerated. This privatization method has proven to be one of the quickest, and has also brought with it many positive changes such as decentralization, increased productivity and motivation and more moderate restructuring policies - especially with regard to employment reductions.This book also presents some of the weaknesses of this form of privatization and identifies such possible improvement as the use of employee-ownership in combination with other privatization methods.Trade Review'Privatization Surprises in Transition Economies is a welcome addition to studies of economic transition.'Table of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction. Creating Employee Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe (M. Uvalic, D. Vaughan-Whitehead) 2. Employee Ownership in the Baltic Countries (N. Mygind) 3. Employee Ownership and Participation in Bulgaria, 1989 to mid 1996 (C. Rock, M. Klinedinst) 4. The Demise of Employee Ownership in the Czech Privatization Programme? (J. Kotrba) 5. Successful Waves of Employee Ownership in Hungary (G. Lajtai) 6. Employee Ownership in Polish Privatizations (D. Mario Nuti) 7. Employee Share-Ownership in Romania: The Main Path to Privatization (C. Munteanu) 8. Rapid Spread of Employee Ownership in the Privatized Russia (B. Lissovolik) 9. Employee Ownership alongside Hyper-stagflation in Ukraine: Enterprise Survey Results for 1993–95 (D. Vaughan-Whitehead) 10. Privatization in the Yugoslav Successor States: Converting Self-Management into Property Rights (M. Uvalic) Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book presents an in-depth analysis of the neo-liberal viewpoint on globalization and its impact on labour relations. The policies of states and multinational corporations as well as their effects are analysed from the perspectives of international political economy, institutional economics, cultural studies and industrial relations.The authors analyse the trade union critique, labour market segmentation and the erosion of regulatory practices and standards which give labour some degree of protection. This innovative book combines theoretical analysis with empirical detail and focuses on various sectors of industry such as mining, home appliances, logistic services and the media as well as the main regional blocks of the global economy - Europe, Australia-Asia and America.Trade Review'. . . contains some excellent articles . . . it is very well edited and covers in a coherent way the theme of globalization / de-regulation . . . the anthology is a pleasure to read because it deals with some profound issues of labour market regulation.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Globalization – Frequently Asked Questions and Some Surprising Answers 3. Towards the Denaturing of Class Relations? 4. In the Name of ‘Globalization’ 5. Imagined Solidarities 6. Fragmenting the Internal Labour Market 7. Global Logistic Chains 8. The International Restructuring of the Media Industries 9. Work Reorganization in a Globalized Mining Industry 10. Australia’s Historic Industrial Relations Transition Index

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Book SynopsisAfter more than twenty years of orthodox economic policy in Europe the scourge of unemployment remains. This impressive book goes beyond the neoclassical theory of employment and develops sound policy guidelines to tackle the global problem of unemployment.Employment, Technology and Economic Needs provides the latest thinking on issues of employment, unemployment and economic policy. The book is explicitly interdisciplinary in scope and international in coverage, including European and US country case studies. Its authors include economists, management scientists, sociologists and economic geographers. Together they provide the most comprehensive analysis to date of the problems of unemployment and poor economic performance from a broadly institutional and evolutionary perspective. The book reports the latest academic research, whilst clearly documenting the implications for public policy. The authors discuss the effectiveness of policy prescriptions such as negative income taxes, the International Labour Organization agenda, a fiscal system based on eco-taxation, a reduction of working time, and developing a 'corporatist' system as a means to develop employment opportunities. Written in an accessible style, this book will be vital reading for all those interested in the fields of employment, technology, and macroeconomic and industrial policy. It will also be of interest to anyone concerned with economic policy issues and human welfare.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Towards an Alternative Theory and Policy on Employment (J. Michie and A. Reati) Part I: The Political Economy of Employment and Unemployment 1. Labour Supply and Unemployment (A.G. Calafati) 2. Demand – and Supply-side Approaches to Economic Policy (J. Michie and C. Pitelis) 3. Deindustrialization, Unemployment and Government (M. Kitson and J. Michie) 4. Institutions and Employment Performance in Different Growth Regimes (E. Appelbaum and R. Schettkat) Part II: The Role of Technology and Innovation 5. The Present Technological Change (A. Reati) 6. A Micro-macro View of the Causes of and Remedies for Unemployment in an Integrating Europe (A. Tylecote) 7. Product versus Process Innovation (C. Edquist, L. Hommen and M. McKelvey) 8. Regional Innovation Strategies (S. Davies and K. Morgan) Part III: The World of Work 9. The Employment Relationship in Transition (E. Benedetti and M. Rangone) 10. Creating Your Own Job (J. Wheelock and S. Baines) 11. In Search of Employment Creation via Environmental Valorization (R. Hudson) 12. Some Alternative Explanations of Irish Unemployment (C.M.A. Clark and C. Kavanagh) Part IV: A Policy Agenda 13. Employment as a Human Right (M.R. Tool) 14. Full Employment (W. Sengenberger) 15. Reforming the Labour Market Through Guaranteed Incomes (J. Manza and F. Block) 16. The Reduction of Working Time as a Means of Solving the Unemployment Problem (A. Reati) Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book plays a vital role in bridging the gap between labour economics, law and economics and the legal profession. Beginning with a general overview of the relationship between labour law and economic theory, it then goes on to examine specific areas within the field of law and economics including: the new law and economic theories on contract formation, with a case study from the Dutch system penalty default rules as applied to Israeli labour law dismissal regulation in the UK and US from a comparative perspective overtime hours in the US and severance pay in Germany the European Works Council an historical and economic analysis of the German co-determined corporation. Table of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Labour Law and Economic Theory: A Reappraisal 2. The Right-to-Lie: New Law and Economics versus Dutch Labour Law? 3. Information-forcing and Cooperation-Inducing Rules: Rethinking the Building Blocks of Labour Law 4. The Law and Economics of Dismissal Regulation: A Comparative Analysis of the US and UK Systems 5. Potential Labour Market Repercussions of Proposed Reforms to the US Fair Labor Standards Act Overtime Hours Law 6. Law and Economics Analysis of the European Works Council 7. Severance Pay in Germany: A Contract Perspective 8. The Co-determined Corporation as a Player in the Labour Market Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative book, bringing together the reports of the Competitiveness Advisory Group, identifies actions to improve European competitiveness politically, economically and socially. The objective is to raise living standards and maintain social cohesion.The Competitiveness Advisory Group has the mission of advising the European Commission and the Heads of State and Government of the European Union. The members of this independent group, which includes leading industrialists, trade unionists, politicians and academics, have adopted a 'bottom-up' approach, seeking to draw lessons from the experience of countries, industries and firms: they rely on 'benchmarking' in order to identify best practice.In the context of increasing interdependence of world trade and consequent globalization of the international economy new policy prescriptions are required for growth and employment, greater efficiency and higher standards of living. In relation to this, the Group discusses the need to close the worldwide technology gap, for Europe to develop deeper relations with the fast growing Asia Pacific region and argues for greater European solidarity in international trade negotiations. Within the European Union itself, it emphasizes the need to achieve the internal market for the free flow of goods, services and people. In addition, it stresses that Europe needs to catch-up, construct and eventually lead the development of the information society in which workers are recognized as a major asset to be invested in. The Group concludes that, although unemployment remains high, European competitiveness now has a brighter future with the movement towards economic and monetary union, and the enlargement of the European Union eastwards.This book will be essential reading for policymakers, government advisers, industrialists and academics concerned with the future of European economies and societies.Trade Review'. . . this is a valuable book.' -- Stephen Young, Journal of International Business StudiesTable of ContentsContents: What Competitiveness for Europe? An Introduction (A. Jacquemin and Lucio Pench) Enhancing European Competitiveness Four Reports (Competitiveness Advisory Group) First Report 1. Competitiveness and the European Economy 2. Completing the Internal Market 3. Strengthening the European Enterprise 4. Reaping Human Resources Second Report 1. Introduction 2. The Role of the State in the Provision and Regulation of Basic Infrastructures 3. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Innovation and Research and Development 4. The Company and Environmental Policy 5. The Meaning of the Learning Society Third Report 1. Summary and Conclusions 2. Labour Market, Unemployment and Competitiveness 3. Labour Market Reform 4. The Company and Employment Fourth Report 1. Europe’s Place in a Globalizing World Economy 2. Benchmarks for Europe: The Dynamism of Asia 3. High-Level Standards, High-Level Benchmarks Index

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Book SynopsisThe world's increasing integration through trade and the persistence of high unemployment in Europe, and other areas of the world, highlight the need to understand the implications of free trade for unemployment. Trade, Jobs and Wages analyses how employment levels and real wages are affected by international trade.Popular trade theory disregards the impact of free trade on the rate of unemployment, since it assumes full employment at the outset. By focusing on the determinants of the natural rate of unemployment, Professor Hoon places an emphasis on real, as opposed to monetary, factors in accounting for long term trends in wages and unemployment. The author examines the influence of trade on jobs and wages in different theoretical settings, including the Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin models as well as models exhibiting imperfect competition and scale economies. The influence of trade on high wage jobs and wage inequalities is also discussed.Trade Review'Although reams of paper have been dedicated to East Asia's rapid productivity growth in recent decades, no one had explored at all deeply the other dimension of the Asian miracle - the extraordinarily low unemployment rates achieved. In this masterful book Hian Teck Hoon explains that it is structural unemployment that is so low there, not deficient demand. Then, skilfully combining concepts in the endogenous theory of the natural rate of unemployment with concepts in trade theory, Hoon explains that it was the opening up to trade that brought down the natural rate in East Asia. The effects on the wage gap and the unemployment pattern are brought in. Thus the book both extends employment theory and enriches the theory of the gains from trade.' -- Edmund S. Phelps, Columbia University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Factors Shaping Singapore’s Wages and Unemployment 3. The Ricardian Model with an Endogenous Natural Rate 4. The Heckscher–Ohlin Model with an Endogenous Natural Rate 5. International Product–Market Competition, Jobs and Wages 6. Scale Economies, Jobs and Wages 7. Trade, High-wage Jobs and the Wage Gap 8. International Trade and Wage Inequality: The Role of Economies of Scale and Relative Factor Endowments 9. Wealth, Labour Force Participation and Trade 10. Trade, Growth and Unemployment in Ricardo’s Essay on Profits Model 11. A Synthesis References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the age of globalization, the importance of migration for the industrialized countries has increased. Inflows of migrants have steadily risen in the 1980s and the early 1990s. Yet while the public debate about policy responses to these developments continues unabated, research findings of economists are often ignored. In this four-volume collection the editors have selected some of the most significant contributions on the economics of migration, which provide an overview of the present state of empirical migration research. Topics covered include the migration decision, the integration of immigrants into the labor market and society, their economic behavior, empirical and theoretical contributions to migration policy, and the effects of immigrants on the native population.Trade Review'. . . it should be difficult to find a better compilation of fine research work on the microeconomics of migration covering the period from 1919 to 2000. The four volumes should therefore be a must for researchers and recommended reading for students and policymakers interested in regional and cross-border labour flows.' -- Federico Foders, Review of World Economics'The collection of reprinted, scholarly articles is useful both for economists starting research in the field and as a guide to the literature for graduate students.' -- Sandra E. Belanger, American Reference Books Annual 2003'This collection brings together every article on immigration that I have ever used in my graduate and undergraduate labour economics courses (plus a number of others as well). Many of these are quite old and thus hard to locate, but are still the best on their topics. All aspects of immigration are covered, ranging from the determinants of individuals' migration decisions, to the impacts of those decisions on the individual, to their effects on both sending and receiving countries. All in all, it is nice to see these 'old friends' collected together in one convenient place.' -- Daniel S. Hamermesh, University of Texas at Austin and National Bureau of Economic Research, USTable of ContentsContents Volume I : The Migration Decision and Immigration Policy Acknowledgements Introduction Klaus F. Zimmermann and Thomas Bauer PART I THE MIGRATION DECISION 1. Larry A. Sjaastad (1962), ‘The Costs and Returns of Human Migration’ 2. Ann P. Bartel (1979), ‘The Migration Decision: What Role Does Job Mobility Play?’ 3. Christopher A. Pissarides and Jonathan Wadsworth (1989), ‘Unemployment and the Inter-regional Mobility of Labour’ 4. Gary S. Fields (1979), ‘Place-to-Place Migration: Some New Evidence’ 5. Michael J. Greenwood and John M. McDowell (1991), ‘Differential Economic Opportunity, Transferability of Skills, and Immigration to the United States and Canada’ 6. Klaus F. Zimmermann (1995), ‘European Migration: Push and Pull’ 7. William J. Carrington, Enrica Detragiache and Tara Vishwanath (1996), ‘Migration with Endogenous Moving Costs’ 8. Ralph Rotte, Michael Vogler and Klaus F. Zimmermann (1997), ‘South–North Refugee Migration: Lessons for Development Cooperation’ 9. Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson (1994), ‘What Drove the Mass Migrations from Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century?’ PART II FAMILY MIGRATION 10. Steven H. Sandell (1977), ‘Women and the Economics of Family Migration’ 11. Jacob Mincer (1978), ‘Family Migration Decisions’ 12. George J. Borjas and Stephen G. Bronars (1991), ‘Immigration and the Family’ PART III REPEAT AND RETURN MIGRATION 13. Julie DaVanzo (1983), ‘Repeat Migration in the United States: Who Moves Back and Who Moves On?’ 14. John K. Hill (1987), ‘Immigrants Decisions Concerning Duration of Stay and Migratory Frequency’ 15. Slobodan Djajic and Ross Milbourne (1988), ‘A General Equilibrium Model of Guest-Worker Migration: The Source-Country Perspective’ 16. George J. Borjas and Bernt Bratsberg (1996), ‘Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-born’ 17. Christian Dustmann (1997), ‘Return Migration, Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings’ PART IV ILLEGAL MIGRATION 18. Wilfred J. Ethier (1986), ‘Illegal Immigration: The Host-Country Problem’ 19. Michael P. Todaro and Lydia Maruszko (1987), ‘Illegal Migration and US Immigration Reform: A Conceptual Framework’ 20. Slobodan Djajic (1987), ‘Illegal Aliens, Unemployment and Immigration Policy’ 21. Barry R. Chiswick (1988), ‘Illegal Immigration and Immigration Control’ 22. John K. Hill and James E. Pearce (1990), ‘The Incidence of Sanctions against Employers of Illegal Aliens’ 23. Sherrie A. Kossoudji (1992), ‘Playing Cat and Mouse at the U.S.-Mexican Border’ 24. Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Clinton R. Shiells and B. Lindsay Lowell (1995), ‘Immigration Reform: The Effects of Employer Sanctions and Legalization on Wages’ PART V IMMIGRATION POLICY 25. Julian L. Simon (1989), ‘Evaluation of Immigration Policies’ 26. Thomas Straubhaar and Klaus F. Zimmermann (1993), ‘Towards a European Migration Policy’ 27. Klaus F. Zimmermann (1995), ‘Tackling the European Migration Problem’ 28. Jess Benhabib (1996), ‘On the Political Economy of Immigration’ Name Index Volume II: Assimilation of Migrants Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I PART I IMMIGRANTS LABOR MARKET ASSIMILATION: EVIDENCE FROM NORTH AMERICA 1. Barry R. Chiswick (1978), ‘The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men’ 2. George J. Borjas (1985), ‘Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants’ 3. A.M. Yuengert (1994), ‘Immigrant Earnings, Relative to What? The Importance of Earnings Function Specification and Comparison Points’ 4. Michael Baker and Dwayne Benjamin (1994), ‘The Performance of Immigrants in the Canadian Labor Market’ 5. David E. Bloom, Gilles Grenier and Morley Gunderson (1995), ‘The Changing Labour Market Position of Canadian Immigrants’ 6. Harriet Orcutt Duleep and Mark C. Regets (1999), ‘Immigrants and Human-Capital Investment’ PART II IMMIGRANTS LABOR MARKET ASSIMILATION: EVIDENCE FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALASIA 7. R. Granier and J.P. Marciano (1975), ‘The Earnings of Immigrant Workers in France’ 8. Barry R. Chiswick (1980), ‘The Earnings of White and Coloured Male Immigrants in Britain’ 9. Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (1985), ‘Immigrant Generation and Income in Australia’ 10. Renato Aguilar and Björn Gustafsson (1991), ‘The Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants’ 11. C. Dustmann (1993), ‘Earnings Adjustment of Temporary Migrants’ 12. Brian D. Bell (1997), ‘The Performance of Immigrants in the United Kingdom: Evidence from the GHS’ 13. Christoph M. Schmidt (1997), ‘Immigrant Performance in Germany: Labor Earnings of Ethnic German Migrants and Foreign Guest-Workers’ 14. Liliana Winkelmann and Rainer Winkelmann (1998), ‘Immigrants in the New Zealand Labour Market: A Cohort Analysis using 1981, 1986 and 1996 Census Data’ PART III MIGRATION AND SELF-SELECTION 15. Robert A. Nakosteen and Michael Zimmer (1980), ‘Migration and Income: The Question of Self-Selection’ 16. Chris Robinson and Nigel Tomes (1982), ‘Self-Selection and Interprovincial Migration in Canada’ 17. George J. Borjas (1987), ‘Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants’ 18. Deborah A. Cobb-Clark (1993), ‘Immigrant Selectivity and Wages: The Evidence for Women’ PART IV THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE 19. Geoffrey Carliner (1981), ‘Wage Differences by Language Group and the Market for Language Skills in Canada’ 20. Walter McManus, William Gould and Finis Welch (1983), ‘Earnings of Hispanic Men: The Role of English Language Proficiency’ 21. Gilles Grenier (1984), ‘The Effects of Language Characteristics on the Wages of Hispanic-American Males’ 22. Barry R. Chiswick (1991), ‘Speaking, Reading, and Earnings among Low-skilled Immigrants’ 23. Christian Dustmann (1994), ‘Speaking Fluency, Writing Fluency and Earnings of Migrants’ 24. Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (1995), ‘The Endogeneity between Language and Earnings: International Analyses’ 25. Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (1996), ‘Ethnic Networks and Language Proficiency among Immigrants’ Name Index Volume III: Quality and Behavior of Migrants Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I PART I IMMIGRATION POLICY AND IMMIGRANT QUALITY 1. Paul H. Douglas (1919), ‘Is the New Immigration More Unskilled Than the Old?’ 2. Barry R. Chiswick (1986), ‘Is the New Immigration Less Skilled Than the Old?’ 3. George J. Borjas (1992), ‘National Origin and the Skills of Immigrants in the Postwar Period’ 4. Robert E. Wright and Paul S. Maxim (1993), ‘Immigration Policy and Immigrant Quality: Empirical Evidence from Canada’ 5. Guillermina Jasso and Mark R. Rosenzweig (1995), ‘Do Immigrants Screened for Skills Do Better than Family Reunification Immigrants?’ 6. Edward Funkhouser and Stephen J. Trejo (1995), ‘The Labor Market Skills of Recent Male Immigrants: Evidence from the Current Population Survey’ 7. Alan G. Green and David A. Green (1995), ‘Canadian Immigration Policy: The Effectiveness of the Point System and Other Instruments’ 8. Alan Barrett (1996), ‘Did the Decline Continue? Comparing the Labor- market Quality of United States Immigrants from the Late 1970’s and Late 1980’s’ 9. Harriet Orcutt Duleep and Mark C. Regets (1996), ‘Admission Criteria and Immigrant Earnings Profiles’ PART II LABOR SUPPLY 10. Harriet Orcutt Duleep and Seth Sanders (1993), ‘The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women’ 11. Michael Baker and Dwayne Benjamin (1997), ‘The Role of the Family in Immigrants’ Labor-Market Activity: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations’ 12. Christian Dustmann (1997), ‘Differences in the Labor Market Behavior between Temporary and Permanent Migrant Women’ PART III SELF-EMPLOYMENT 13. George J. Borjas (1986), ‘The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants’ 14. Andrew M. Yuengert (1995), ‘Testing Hypotheses of Immigrant Self-Employment’ 15. Robert W. Fairlie and Bruce D. Meyer (1996), ‘Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment Differences and Possible Explanations’ PART IV WELFARE BENEFITS 16. Francine D. Blau (1984), ‘The Use of Transfer Payments by Immigrants’ 17. Julian L. Simon (1984), ‘Immigrants, Taxes, and Welfare in the United States’ 18. George J. Borjas and Stephen J. Trejo (1991), ‘Immigrant Participation in the Welfare System’ 19. Michael Baker and Dwayne Benjamin (1995), ‘The Receipt of Transfer Payments by Immigrants to Canada’ 20. George J. Borjas and Lynette Hilton (1996), ‘Immigration and the Welfare State: Immigrant Participation in Means-tested Entitlement Programs’ PART V INTERGENERATIONAL ISSUES 21. Barry R. Chiswick (1977), ‘Sons of Immigrants: Are They at an Earnings Disadvantage?’ 22. George J. Borjas (1993), ‘The Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants’ 23. Ira N. Gang and Klaus F. Zimmermann (2000), ‘Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin’ Name Index Volume IV: Migration and the Natives Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I PART I THE EFFECT OF IMMIGRANTS ON NATIVES: THEORY 1. Melvin W. Reder (1963), ‘The Economic Consequences of Increased Immigration’ 2. R. Albert Berry and Ronald Soligo (1969), ‘Some Welfare Aspects of International Migration’ 3. Carlos Alfredo Rodriguez (1975), ‘On the Welfare Aspects of International Migration’ 4. Dan Usher (1977), ‘Public Property and the Effects of Migration upon Other Residents of the Migrants’ Countries of Origin and Destination’ 5. George E. Johnson (1980), ‘The Labor Market Effects of Immigration’ 6. Wilfried J. Ethier (1985), ‘International Trade and Labor Migration’ 7. Christoph M. Schmidt, Anette Stilz and Klaus F. Zimmermann (1994), ‘Mass Migration, Unions, and Government Intervention’ 8. George J. Borjas (1995), ‘The Economic Benefits from Immigration’ 9. Thomas Bauer and Klaus F. Zimmermann (1997), ‘Integrating the East: The Labor Market Effects of Immigration’ PART II LABOR MARKET IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION: EVIDENCE FROM NORTH AMERICA 10. Jean Baldwin Grossmann (1982), ‘The Substitutability of Natives and Immigrants in Production’ 11. David Card (1990), ‘The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market’ 12. Joseph G. Altonji and David Card (1991), ‘The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Less-skilled Natives’ 13. George J. Borjas, Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz (1997), ‘How Much Do Immigration and Trade Affect Labor Market Outcomes?’ PART III LABOR MARKET IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION: EVIDENCE FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALASIA 14. Jennifer Hunt (1992), ‘The Impact of the 1962 Repatriates from Algeria on the French Labor Market’ 15. Rainer Winkelmann and Klaus F. Zimmermann (1993), ‘Ageing, Migration and Labour Mobility’ 16. Ira N. Gang and Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz (1994), ‘Labor Market Effects of Immigration in the United States and Europe: Substitution vs. Complementarity’ 17. John P. De New and Klaus F. Zimmermann (1994), ‘Native Wage Impacts of Foreign Labor: A Random Effects Panel Analysis’ 18. William J. Carrington and Pedro J.F. de Lima (1996), ‘The Impact of 1970s Repatriates from Africa on the Portuguese Labor Market’ 19. Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller (1996), ‘Immigration and the Earnings of Young Native Workers’ 20. Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Johannes Velling (1997), ‘Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: An Analysis Based on Local Labor Markets’ 21. Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller (1999), ‘Do Immigrants Displace Young Native Workers: The Austrian Experience’ 22. Jordan Shan, Alan Morris and Fiona Sun (1999), ‘Immigration and Unemployment: New Evidence from Australia and New Zealand’ PART IV MIGRANTS AND MOBILITY OF THE NATIVES 23. Kristin F. Butcher and David Card (1991), ‘Immigration and Wages: Evidence from the 1980’s’ 24. William H. Frey (1995), ‘Immigration and Internal Migration "Flight" from US Metropolitan Areas: Toward a New Demographic Balkanisation’ 25. Richard A. Wright, Mark Ellis and Michael Reibel (1997), ‘The Linkage between Immigration and Internal Migration in Large Metropolitan Areas in the United States’ 26. Michael J. White and Zai Liang (1998), ‘The Effect of Immigration on the Internal Migration of the Native-born Population, 1981–1990’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisFull Employment and Growth presents James Tobin's unique modern Keynesian slant on the major monetary, fiscal and international policy issues of the 1990s.More than twenty recent essays collected together in this volume address the major contemporary issues of macroeconomic policy, especially in America. Usually dissenting from the orthodoxies of the day, both liberal and conservative, Professor Tobin offers a common sense, unhysterical view of public deficits and debt, speaks for pragmatic monetary policies, argues against protectionism and favours slowing down the speculative movement of funds between currencies. The author also presents his own suggestions for reform of social security and health care.Again and again, Professor Tobin warns against blind faith that the markets will always produce optimal results. All those interested in the application of economic analysis and argument to the salient policy issues of our time will find these essays eminently readable and will appreciate the clear ways in which the power of economic analysis is explained and used.Trade Review'The essays are permeated with that upsurge of optimism and spirit. Long may Jim Tobin continue to instruct and inspire us.' -- G.C. Harcourt, The Manchester School'The style is lucid and very readable and all mathematical formalization is left out. An impressive and important book, it is highly recommended to all.'– Tareen Hussain, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Part I: Macroeconomic Policy Part II: Monetary Policy Part III: Fiscal Policy Part IV: International Economic Relations Part V: Social Policy Index

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Book SynopsisInsufficient job creation and the decreasing quality of jobs are fundamental social problems throughout the industrialized world. This impressive book uses a multidisciplinary approach to provide an accessible and wide-ranging assessment of the effect of changes in labour market institutions on the creation of jobs.This book brings together a distinguished group of contributors from the fields of economics, management and industrial relations. The authors rigorously examine how labour market institutions shape employment performance and assess issues such as unemployment benefits, job security provisions and collective bargaining. These institutions are found to be key determinants of unemployment rates and other important social and economic indicators such as activity rates, and the share of part-time and short-term contract jobs. The authors also focus on public policy and the reform of current institutions and assess their effect on the adaptation of the labour force to the changing demands of international markets. In particular, several chapters analyse the impact of information technologies on the organization of firms and their internal and external labour markets. Regulatory changes are proposed to facilitate the adjustment and competitiveness of both companies and workers in order to increase the creation of jobs.Job Creation will be required reading for scholars of labour economics, labour markets and public policy as well as practitioners and policymakers.Trade Review'Summarising, the book contributes a number of valuable insights and, as a whole, conveys an important message.' -- Wiemer Salverda, International Journal of Manpower'. . . the book is an asset for all researchers and policymakers concerned with labour market problems and contributes to a broader reflection on the need for congruency in labour market requirements and in institutional frameworks.' -- Peter Auer, International Labour Review'This book is a welcome addition to the analysis of the current state of European labour markets and a particularly useful one since it does attempt to offer constructive policy prescriptions to the different facets of the problem.' -- Claudio Lucifora, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Employment Debate 2. Employment Dynamics and Labor Market Institutions 3. The Organizational Revolution and its Implications for Job Creation 4. The Shifting Structure of the American Labor Market 5. External and Internal Labor Markets in Spain 6. Labor Market Regulations, Social Policy and Job Creation 7. Multinationals, ‘Relocation’, and Employment in Europe

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Book SynopsisThe rapid rise in the earnings of top executives is a distinctive feature of modern capitalism. This important two volume collection presents some of the most influential published theoretical and empirical papers on executive compensation. Topics include: Theoretical Foundations of Executive Pay; Executive Compensation and Company Performance; Relative Performance Evaluation; Determinants of Executive Compensation; The Effects of CEO Pay; Accounting Measures in Executive Contracts; CEO Turnover; CEO Pay Internationally; Economic Environments and Executive Pay.The Economics of Executive Compensation draws together a wide range of literature and will be an essential reference guide for students, researchers and practioners.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Introduction Part I: Theoretical Foundations of Executive Pay 1. Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling (1976), ‘Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure’ 2. Bengt Holmstrom (1979), ‘Moral Hazard and Observability’ 3. Eugene F. Fama (1980), ‘Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm’ 4. Edward P. Lazear and Sherwin Rosen (1981), ‘Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts’ 5. Bengt Holmstrom (1982), ‘Moral Hazard in Teams’ 6. Sherwin Rosen (1982), ‘Authority, Control, and the Distribution of Earnings’ 7. Sanford J. Grossman and Oliver D. Hart (1983), ‘An Analysis of the Principal-Agent Problem’ Part II: Executive Compensation and Company Performance 8. Wilbur G. Lewellen and Blaine Huntsman (1970), ‘Managerial Pay and Corporate Performance’ 9. Kevin J. Murphy (1985), ‘Corporate Performance and Managerial Remuneration: An Empirical Analysis’ 10. Anne T. Coughlan and Ronald M. Schmidt (1985), ‘Executive Compensation, Management Turnover, and Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation’ 11. Michael C. Jensen and Kevin J. Murphy (1990), ‘Performance Pay and Top-Management Incentives’ 12. Sherwin Rosen (1992), ‘Contracts and the Market for Executives’ 13. Joseph G. Haubrich (1994), ‘Risk Aversion, Performance Pay, and the Principal-Agent Problem’ Part III: Relative Performance Evaluation 14. Rick Antle and Abbie Smith (1986), ‘An Empirical Investigation of the Relative Performance Evaluation of Corporate Executives’ 15. Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy (1990), ‘Relative Performance Evaluation for Chief Executive Officers’ Part IV: Determinants of Executive Compensation 16. Kevin J. Murphy (1986), ‘Incentives, Learning, and Compensation: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Managerial Labor Contracts’ 17. Wilbur Lewellen, Claudio Loderer and Kenneth Martin (1987), ‘Executive Compensation and Executive Incentive Problems: An Empirical Analysis’ 18. Charles A. O’Reilly III, Brian G. Main and Graef S. Crystal (1988), ‘CEO Compensation as Tournament and Social Comparison: A Tale of Two Theories’ 19. Jonathan S. Leonard (1990), ‘Executive Pay and Firm Performance’ 20. Richard A. Lambert, David F. Larcker and Robert E. Verrecchia (1991), ‘Portfolio Considerations in Valuing Executive Compensation’ 21. Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy (1992), ‘Optimal Incentive Contracts in the Presence of Career Concerns: Theory and Evidence’ 22. David Yermack (1995), ‘Do Corporations Award CEO Stock Options Effectively?’ Name Index Volume II: Part I: The Effects of CEO Pay 1. Robert Tempest Masson (1971), ‘Executive Motivations, Earnings, and Consequent Equity Performance’ 2. James A. Brickley, Sanjai Bhagat and Ronald C. Lease (1985), ‘The Impact of Long-Range Managerial Compensation Plans on Shareholder Wealth’ 3. Hassan Tehranian and James F. Waegelein (1985), ‘Market Reaction to Short-Term Executive Compensation Plan Adoption’ 4. Anup Agrawal and Gershon N. Mandelker (1987), ‘Managerial Incentives and Corporate Investment and Financing Decisions’ 5. John M. Abowd (1990), ‘Does Performance-Based Managerial Compensation Affect Corporate Performance?’ 6. Patricia M. Dechow and Richard G. Sloan (1991), ‘Executive Incentives and the Horizon Problem: An Empirical Investigation’ 7. Keith C. Brown, W.V. Harlow and Laura T. Starks (1996), ‘Of Tournaments and Temptations: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives in the Mutual Fund Industry’ Part II: Accounting Measures in Executive Contracts 8. Paul M Healy (1985), ‘The Effect of Bonus Schemes on Accounting Decisions’ 9. Robert M. Bushman and Raffi J. Indjejikian (1993), ‘Accounting Income, Stock Price, and Managerial Compensation’ 10. Richard G. Sloan (1993), ‘Accounting Earnings and Top Executive Compensation’ 11. Jennifer J. Gaver, Kenneth M. Gaver and Jeffrey R. Austin (1995), ‘Additional Evidence on Bonus Plans and Income Management’ 12. Robert W. Holthausen, David F. Larcker and Richard G. Sloan (1995), ‘Annual Bonus Schemes and the Manipulation of Earnings’ Part III: CEO Turnover 13. Jerold B. Warner, Ross L. Watts and Karen H. Wruck (1988), ‘Stock Prices and Top Management Changes’ 14. Michael S. Weisbach (1988), ‘Outside Directors and CEO Turnover’ 15. Kevin J. Murphy and Jerold L. Zimmerman (1993), ‘Financial Performance Surrounding CEO Turnover’ Part IV: CEO Pay Internationally 16. Steven N. Kaplan (1994), ‘Top Executive Rewards and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Japan and the United States’ 17. Steven N. Kaplan (1994), ‘Top Executives, Turnover, and Firm Performance in Germany’ 18. Martin Conyon, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin (1995), ‘Taking Care of Business: Executive Compensation in the United Kingdom’ 19. John M. Abowd and Michael L. Bognanno (1995), ‘International Differences in Executive and Managerial Compensation’ Part V: Economic Environments and Executive Pay 20. Clifford W. Smith, Jr. and Ross L. Watts (1992), ‘The Investment Opportunity Set and Corporate Financing, Dividend, and Compensation Policies’ 21. Stuart C. Gilson and Michael R. Vetsuypens (1993), ‘CEO Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms: An Empirical Analysis’ 22. R. Glenn Hubbard and Darius Palia (1995), ‘Executive Pay and Performance: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry’ 23. Paul L. Joskow, Nancy L. Rose and Catherine D. Wolfram (1996), ‘Political Constraints on Executive Compensation: Evidence From the Electric Utility Industry’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and authoritative book offers a global approach to the modern economics of the family, family law and family policy. Beginning with the division of labour in the family, this book deals with the economics of marriage, the demand for children, inter-generational relationships, and the economics of inheritance. The family is analysed using the theory of utility maximisation assuming that individuals wish to achieve the greatest possible satisfaction with limited resources and imperfect knowledge. The family is examined from both long and short term perspectives, and it is assumed that the family is cooperative with incentives for altruistic behaviour greater than in any other social group. Francisco Cabrillo then develops the analysis to include a discussion of the economics of family policy, an area not widely discussed in the existing literature, with special reference to the European Union. He makes use of simple and clear analytical models, such as neoclassical optimization and game theory, to explain the rationality of individual behaviour in the family and the responses to the incentives created by public policies.The Economics of the Family and Family Policy will be essential reading for economists interested in the family, public policy as well as sociologists and policymakers.Trade Review'Francisco Cabrillo's book is a masterful and much needed overview of the economics of the family, one of the "heterodox" subjects in which economists have in the last decades proved the fruitfulness of their analytic apparatus. Written with the general reader in view, both economists and non-economists will enjoy this book. It covers not only a wide scope from the theoretical point of view but also looks at the policies directed towards the family. Economic analysis can be very helpful in the task of finding out whether policy makers in this field have been right or, alas, wrong.' -- Carlos RodrIguez Braun, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain'[This book] should be of value for the structure of family relations in the western world today and in the past or those of traditional African or Asian society without having to alter its premises. . .' -- Fernando GOmez, Libros'Francisco Cabrillo has written an excellent book that will be of great value for anyone interested in the basic ideas that have developed over recent decades on the economics of the family. Professor Cabrillo has a virtue that is rare amongst economists: the skill to write lucidly for laymen on important social and economic matters without sacrificing the sophistication and subtlety of his economic analysis.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Economists and the Family 2. The Family as an Economic Unit 3. Marriage(I) 4. Marriage (II) 5. Children 6. The Intergenerational Pact 7. Inheritance 8. Family Protection and Pro-Natalist Policies 9. The Economic Foundations and Effects of a Policy for the Family 10. Technical Problems involved in an Economic Policy for Family Protection Index

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Book SynopsisThe Russian labour market has been hailed by some economists as being 'perfectly flexible' because Russia has achieved enormous employment restructuring with minimal unemployment, and by others as plagued by rigidities since pay structures have been frozen, inequality has increased and job creation has been negligible. Such disagreements reflect both the lack of serious research on the formation of a labour market in Russia and the lack of theoretical agreement as to what constitutes a labour market.Simon Clarke addresses these empirical and theoretical issues on the basis of statistical survey and case study data collected within the framework of a large-scale collaborative research programme on the restructuring of labour and employment in Russia. The book reviews the historical context, the statistical data and the theoretical issues before proceeding to a detailed analysis of the development of the labour market in the interaction of the labour market strategies of employers and employees.The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia will be of interest to scholars of transition studies and labour economics, industrial relations specialists and sociologists of labour.Trade Review'Rich in documentation and precise in analysis. . . this volume will. . . engage the labour specialist and inform the interested Russian generalist as well.' -- Walter D. Connor, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia? 2. The Russian Labour Market 3. Management Employment Strategy 4. The Motivation of Workers and the Russian Labour Market 5. Labour Market Behaviour: How do People Get Their Jobs? 6. Appendix: Sources of Data on Income and Employment References Index

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Book SynopsisThe last two decades have seen a reshaping of the international economy together with a radical weakening in the conditions of the working class. New productive techniques and methods in the organization of labour have been implemented on a world-wide scale partly as a consequence of the financialization of capital. The geographical diffusion of market relations has continued and with it the dominance of capital in all realms of social reproduction. In charting this change, the book offers an alternative view of contemporary capitalism.It has been suggested that we are entering a new phase where the 'globalization' of economic activities is fully achieved, where 'post-Fordist' regulation has overcome the crisis of Keynesian capitalism, and where the dominant tendency is towards the 'end of work'. In contrast to this view, the authors of this book argue that current internationalization is not a structure, but a contradictory process and that new patterns in the division of labour while successful in increasing the pressure over workers have not been able to supersede Fordism entirely. They conclude that the slow growth of the economies, caused by neoliberal economic policies, is a crucial factor in explaining unemployment and the fragmentation of labour.Trade Review'This book swims against the current of orthodox assertions and offers a realistic theoretical analysis that supports labor's emancipation.' -- Stavros D. Mavroudeas, Review of Political EconomyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. After Fordism, What? Capitalism at the End of the Century 2. Structural Unemployment in the Crisis of the Late Twentieth Century 3. Which Europe Do We Need Now? Which can we get? 4. Britain under ‘New Labour’ 5. The Euro and Europe’s Labour 6. The Accumulation Process in Japan and East Asia as Compared with the Role of Germany in European Post-war Growth 7. Historical Notes on the Rise and Fall of Fordism and Flexible Accumulation in the United States 8. Lean Production in North America 9. Management-by-Stress and Skilled Work 10. Is Technical Change the Cause of Unemployment? 11. Intensive and Extensive Investment, Employment and Working Time in the European Union 12. The Transformation of the Italian Labour Market 13. Changing Patterns in the Division of Labour and in the Segmentation of the Labour Force Index

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Book SynopsisIs it possible for low-paid workers to obtain higher-paid jobs through upward mobility over time within the earnings distribution? Based on new empirical evidence from a number of European countries, the book focuses on earnings mobility, an issue that is of increasing concern to policymakers and governments throughout the world.The widening earnings dispersion which is developing in European labour markets has had the inevitable consequence of worsening the position of the poorer members of society. This book identifies those individual characteristics which affect upward mobility either by increasing or decreasing the probability of individual workers improving their chances of earning higher wages. The authors, including some of the leading labour economists in Europe, offer a comprehensive European perspective covering a total of thirteen countries. They shed new light on the way in which labour market incentives and institutions affect both the incidence and duration of low-paid employment.This book will be of interest to both academics with an interest in labour economics and policy makers throughout Europe.Trade Review'For those interested in how people move through life and how where you are now relates to people's histories, and especially for those interested in inequality, this book and report are very useful, indeed powerful.' -- Paul Gregg, Work, Employment and Society'. . . an important strength of this collection is the diversity of the approaches it presents, which makes it more than the sum of its individual contributions . . . The studies in this volume advance the research agenda, and all of them deserve careful reading and thought.' -- Lori G. Kletzer, Industrial and Labor Relations ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Introduction: Low Pay and Earnings Mobility 1. Methodological and Econometric Issues in the Measurement of Low Pay and Earnings Mobility Part I: Low-Paid Employment: The Long-Run Horizon 2. Earnings Mobility in the Italian Economy 3. Long-Term Earnings Mobility of Low-Paid Workers in Finland 4. Low-Wage Mobility in a Working-Life Perspective Part II: Low-Paid Employment: The Short-Run Horizon 5. Wage Mobility for Low-Wage Earners in Denmark and Finland 6. An Econometric Analysis of Low Pay and Earnings Mobility in Britain 7. The Earnings Mobility of Low-Paid Workers in Britain Part III: Low-Paid Employment: Some Further Perspectives 8. Low Pay, A Matter of Occupation 9. The Effects of Unemployment on Future Earnings 10. Working Poor? An Analysis of Low-Wage Employment in Italy 11. Wage Growth of Low – and High-Skilled Workers in the Netherlands Part IV: Low-Paid Employment in the OECD Countries: An International Comparison 12. The Incidence and Dynamics of Low-Paid Employment in OECD Countries

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Book SynopsisThe amount of physical matter in the world is fixed and improvements to people's material circumstances are only created by their ability to reconfigure this matter. What distinguishes labour, and subsequently what allows for differing increments of value, are our capabilities, skills and understandings. In addition, the way society synchronises these individual talents and pieces of knowledge is significant.This innovative book sheds new light on the emerging confluence between labour and industrial economics: the view that labour as capital is the dominant factor of production. This factor is commonly embraced under the term intangible capital. This book examines the process by which firms accumulate intangible capital assets using a post-Keynesian perspective. It will be of interest to labour and industrial economists, especially those who favour post-Keynesian and Kaleckian economic thought.Trade Review'I had the privilege and pleasure of supervising the Ph.D. dissertation from which the present book originated. Its author, Beth Webster, was independent, critical in a positive way and original. She acquired a most thorough knowledge and mastery of the relevant literature. She recognized early on the growing importance, both qualitatively and quantitatively, of investment in intangible assets in modern economic processes. She set about developing an appropriate framework, drawing on Kalecki's insights in particular, within which to analyse the issues involved. The outcome is the present book - which is original, relevant, comprehensive and a pleasure to read.' -- G.C. Harcourt, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Historic Conception of Investment and Capital 3. Contemporary Conception of Investment 4. Uncertainty and Risk 5. Competition 6. Empirical Evidence 7. The Firm’s Investment Decision 8. Integration into Macrodynamics 9. Concluding Remarks References Index

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Book SynopsisEconomic Welfare presents an important collection of leading writings in the fields of policy evaluation. The volume focuses on the conceptual issues behind welfare economics, drawing upon contributions from economics, moral philosophy and social philosophy. The selected readings are designed to present the case both for and against extant approaches to economic welfare.Modern welfare economics comprises three contrasting approaches. Pure Paretianism focuses on cases where everyone is made better off or worse off. This approach commands broad (although not universal) assent but does not apply to most real world choices. Cost-benefit analysis does most of the practical work for economic policy evaluation, but does not offer fully sound foundations. Newer approaches treat economic welfare as either cardinal or measurable in nature, often dropping the traditional strictures against interpersonal utility comparisons. This collection brings together these three approaches, examines their strengths and weaknesses and asks whether they share a common future.Economic Welfare will provide an indispensable reference source for students, academics and practitioners.Trade Review'The articles are well chosen to cover all aspects of the subject in each case.' -- Aslib Book GuideTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Foundations 1. Hal R. Varian (1984), ‘General Equilibrium Theory and Welfare Economics’ 2. Arnold C. Harberger (1971), ‘Three Basic Postulates for Applied Welfare Economics: An Interpretive Essay’ 3. Amartya Sen (1979), ‘Personal Utilities and Public Judgements: Or What’s Wrong With Welfare Economics?’ 4. Tyler Cowen (1993), ‘The Scope and Limits of Preference Sovereignty’ 5. Steven Kelman (1981), ‘Cost–Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique’ 6. Robert Cooter and Peter Rappoport (1984), ‘Were the Ordinalists Wrong About Welfare Economics?’ 7. Amartya Sen (1984), ‘The Living Standard’ 8. Tyler Cowen (1991), ‘What a Non-Paretian Welfare Economics Would Have to Look Like’ Part II: Cost–Benefit Analysis 9. Robert D. Willig (1976), ‘Consumer’s Surplus Without Apology’ 10. John S. Chipman and James C. Moore (1978), ‘The New Welfare Economics 1939–1974’ 11. Richard G. Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster (1997), ‘The General Theory of Second Best’ 12. Robert C. Lind (1982), ‘A Primer on the Major Issues Relating to the Discount Rate for Evaluating National Energy Projects’ 13. Martin J. Bailey and Michael C. Jensen (1972), ‘Risk and the Discount Rate for Public Investment’ 14. Daniel A. Graham (1981), ‘Cost–Benefit Analysis under Uncertainty’ 15. T.C. Schelling (1968), ‘The Life You Save May Be Your Own’ 16. Richard A. Posner (1981), ‘The Ethical and Political Basis of Wealth Maximization’ 17. Ronald M. Dworkin (1980), ‘Is Wealth a Value?’ 18. Arnold C. Harberger (1978), ‘On the Use of Distributional Weights in Social Cost–Benefit Analysis’ Part III: Social Choice and Utilitarianism 19. Allan M. Feldman (1974), ‘A Very Unsubtle Version of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem’ 20. Kenneth J. Arrow (1984), ‘A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare’ 21. John Rawls (1972), excerpt from ‘Justice as Fairness’ 22. John C. Harsanyi (1955), ‘Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility’ 23. Amartya Sen (1970), ‘The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal’ 24. Robert Nozick (1974/1995), ‘How Liberty Upsets Patterns’ and ‘Sen’s Argument’ 25. Robert Sugden (1978), ‘Social Choice and Individual Liberty’ and ‘Discussion’ 26. Derek Parfit (1986), ‘Overpopulation and the Quality of Life’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book assesses the impact of labour standards on the competitiveness of firms through a comparison of developing and industrialized countries.The lack of a strict code of labour standards in developing countries is thought to result in unfair competition, which industrialized countries have used to justify protectionist policies. Developing countries are seen to oppose the adoption of labour standards, believing that such measures are likely to jeopardize their competitiveness in world markets. This book analyses both of these positions within the context of the current political debate on the subject. The authors investigate the reasons for implementing labour standards, and measure their impact upon firm competitiveness using a variety of empirical tests and statistics from approximately 165 countries. They conclude that labour standards do not have a significant impact on the competitiveness of firms or economies as a whole. From their evidence the authors offer policy advice including the decentralization of decision making for implementing labour standards, and the adoption throughout the world of core labour standards.Labour Standards and International Competitiveness will be welcomed by academics interested in international economics, development economics and labour economics, as well as by policymakers and practitioners working in international organizations.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. A Political Issue: Two Opposing Views 2. The Economic Analysis 3. The Strength of the Evidence 4. Conclusion Appendices Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe economic performance of many countries has deteriorated significantly during the last decade. The 1990s witnessed a global recession, the Mexican currency crisis and later, the Asian and Russian crises. The objective of full employment and price stability appears to be an illusory goal for many of the economies of the emerging global market system. This book offers new policy prescriptions from the post Keynesian perspective to achieve full employment without inflation. Paul Davidson and Jan Kregel - both world renowned economists - have selected papers that rigorously examine real world issues including: the challenge of attaining external balance with internal growth and employment speculation and volatile financial markets in the quest to achieve full employment without inflation the role of money in combating unemployment the role of institutions in stabilizing economies the advantages and disadvantages of the Euro and its implications in the world economy Keynes's plan to reform the international payments system in the post war era The book will be welcomed by economists, especially those interested in international economics, by politicians, policymakers and by all those concerned with global employment and inflation issues.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Keynes’s ‘New Order’ 2. Economic Integration, the EMU and European Regional Growth 3. Prospects for the Single European Currency and Some Proposals for a New Maastricht 4. External Balances, Internal Growth and Employment 5. Thoughts on Speculation and Open Markets 6. Financial Market Behavior 7. On Banks’ Liquidity Preference 8. Financial Globalization and Housing Policy 9. A General Framework for the Analysis of Currencies and Commodities 10. Price Stability and Full Employment as Complements in a New Europe 11. Competition and Employment 12. Another Look at Wage and Price Flexibility as the Solution to Unemployment 13. Employment Policies in an Open Semi-industrialized Economy 14. Thwarting Systems and Institutional Dynamics Index

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Book SynopsisThe contemporary context of unemployment and its political ramifications have made working time a highly topical and sensitive issue, not merely in the EU, but also in other areas of the global labor market. This illuminating book reviews the traditional doctrines concerning working time that are influencing political and intellectual attitudes. The authors illustrate how tools of microeconomic analysis must be modified to explain better the terms of contemporary labor contracts. They introduce powerful concepts such as a generalized production function, cost structure, compensating wage and trade union negotiation, to highlight the scope for political intervention on working time. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of legal time reductions as an employment policy. Taking into consideration new research and renewed political debate, this is an exhaustive text grounded in historical perspective and contemporary facts. By focusing on working time as a central issue of modern societies, this important book will be an invaluable text for scholars as well as decision-makers in the areas of industrial and labor economics.Trade Review'. . . an excellent monograph on an important topic in labor market economics. It is comprehensive, detailed and, whilst primarily theoretical, it has enough empirics, historical background and policy to give it wide appeal. The authors display considerable authority in their treatment of the topics.' -- Robert Hart, University of Stirling, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Brief History of Working Time Theory 2. Basic Facts 3. Working Time Policy: An Overview 4. The Standard Neoclassical View of the Labor Market 5. Working Time, Production and Cost Functions 6. Working Time in a Cost Minimization Problem 7. Cost Minimization, Heterogeneous Workers and Asymmetric Information 8. Premium Pay for Overtime 9. Working Time in a Profit Maximization Framework 10. Working Time in a Trade Union Model 11. Complementary Labor Services and Working Time Regulation 12. Working Time Reduction in a Vertically Integrated Two-Sector Model 13. Working Hours and Unemployment in a Matching Model 14. Deregulation of Overtime Premium and Employment Dynamics References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a comparative approach to economic history to offer ways to increase our understanding of the divergence between South America and Scandinavia. In particular, the book aims to deepen our understanding of why the two groups of countries have set out on radically different pathways with regard to industrialisation, long-term economic growth and income distribution. The book draws together the results of two separate projects focusing on this comparison. The first of these projects focuses on two of the so-called settler societies of South America, namely Uruguay and Argentina, sometimes called the Pampas region. Australia and New Zealand, two other settler societies, are also considered, adding a further contrasting effect. These settler societies are compared with Scandinavia, in its broad terms, including Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. The second of these projects focuses on comparisons between Brazil and Sweden. Together, the two projects have engaged the minds of economic historians from Brazil, Uruguay and Sweden. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in economic history and economic development more broadly.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Jorge Alvarez and Svante Prado.- Part 1. Latin America and Scandinavia.- 2. Latin American and Nordic countries: a renewed tradition of comparative studies; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin.- Part 2: Trade, industrialisation and growth.- 3. Foreign trade and economic growth in Scandinavia, Australasia and the Rio de la Plata region, 1870–1970; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin.- 4. Structural change, industrial growth and economic development in the Nordic and Southern Settler Societies, 1870–1970; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin.- 5. Long-term comparative levels of labour productivity in manufacturing, c. 1890–2010; Cecilia Lara and Svante Prado.- Part 3: Dimensions of inequality.- 6. Wage differentials, 1920–2010; Svante Prado, Thales Pereira and Jakob Molinder.- 7. Land-ownership systems and agrarian income distribution in Denmark, New Zealand and Uruguay during the First Globalisation Era; Jorge Álvarez and María de las Mercedes Menéndez.- 8. Democratisation and the rise of the welfare state; Erik Bengtsson and Marc Morgan.- 9. The role of education in modernisation drives in Brazil and in Sweden; Thomas Kang and Anders Nilsson.

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Book SynopsisThrough an inter-subjective lens, this open access book investigates the initial labour market integration experiences of these migrants, refugees or asylum seekers, who are characterised by different biographies and migration/asylum trajectories. The book gives voice to the migrants and seeks to highlight their own experiences and understandings of the labour market integration process, in the first years of immigration. It adopts a critical, qualitative perspective but does not remain ethnographic. The book rather refers the migrants’ own voice and experience to their own expert knowledge of the policy and socio-economic context that is navigated. Each chapter brings into dialogue the migrant’s intersubjective experiences with the relevant policies and practices, as well as with the relevant stakeholders, whether local government, national services, civil society or migrant organisations. The book concludes with relevant critical insights as to how labour market integration is lived on the ground and on what migrants ‘do’ with labour market policies rather than on what labour market policies ‘do’ to or for migrants.Trade Review“Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand is a must read book that allows a prismatic point of view onto the lives of migrants, their bodies, trajectories, and personal journeys … .” (Angela Cacciarru, EuropeNow, europenowjournal.org, February, 2023)Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisAs the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores current migration and integration challenges. Against the background of long-term migration trends, it asks whether the pandemic has changed the patterns observed, transformed the circumstances international migrants face at destination or whether the opportunities and challenges for integration have been altered. Twenty-four researchers have contributed to this volume with research attention on how COVID-19 has affected transnationalism and identity, labour market employment, and impacted the discrimination of migrants in a variety of ways. Loyalties and tensions created by the need to include also hesitant migrant groups in vaccination programmes are explored. The role of cosmopolitanism and welfare chauvinism in narratives on inward migrations flows, the stance of trade unions on migration, the complexities of implementing return policies, and the challenges faced by unaccompanied refugee youth from Afghanistan are also discussed.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Migration and Integration in a Post-pandemic World.The Shape of Things to Come: International Migration in the 21st X Century.New Perspectives on Migrant Transnationalism in the Pandemic Era.Cosmopolitanism and Welfare Chauvinism in Sweden.Binds and Bridges to Protection in Crisis: The Case of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth from Afghanistan in Sweden.The Tricky Thing of Implementing Migration Policies: Insights from Return Policies in Sweden.Migration, Trade Unions and the Re-making of Social Inclusion: The Case of Territorial Union Engagement in France, Italy and Spain.Swedish Trade Unions and Migration: Challenges and Responses.Unemployed Marginalised Immigrant Women: Work Integrating Social Enterprises as a Possible Solution.Skill Requirements and Employment of Immigrants in Swedish Hospitality.Ethnic Discrimination During the Covid-19 Pandemic.Model Minority and Honorary White? Structural and Individual Accounts on Being Asian in Sweden.Loyalty and Integration among Young Adults with Minority Backgrounds in Norway.Immigrant Integration and Vaccine Hesitancy among Somali Immigrants in Stockholm.Conclusion to Migration and Integration in a Post-pandemic World.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how education influences economic and social development. With a particular focus on the role of higher education and universities, policies that promote education are analysed to highlight how economic development can be encouraged (and hindered) through policymaking. Comparative trends within Europe and Romania are examined to provide insight into the different ways in which education has evolved across the continent. The relationship between levels of education and employability, personal development, and professional development is also discussed.This book aims to examine how education policies can maximise economic growth and social development. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic development and education economics.Table of Contents1. Introduction – The Temporal Dynamics of Education.PART I. The Emergence of Education and Its Economic Dimension.2. Education: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches.3.Theories and Models on the Relationship Between Education and Economic Development.4. Economic Scale of Education.5. Higher Education for the Social and Economic Development.Part II. Practice Beats Theory.6. Case Studies of Best Practices in Higher Education.7. Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Higher Education and Economic Development.Part III. Understanding the Numbers and Narratives. Good and Bad News.8. Trends and Evolutions of Higher Education Related to the European Integration and Membership.9. Systems of Benchmarking Indicator Characterizing Modern Economy.10. The Relationships GCI-ELLI-HCI.11. The 2020 Strategy.12. Quantification of the Impact Level of Education on the Economic Development of Nations.Part IV. Detached From Contemporary Reality.13. Empirical Research on the Gap between Level of Education and Employability Based on Work Satisfaction.14. Conclusions Regarding the Social and Economic Dimension of Education.

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Book SynopsisThis handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines and from around the world to examine the history, characteristics, effects, viability and implementation of basic income. The first edition of this book contributed a comprehensive treatment of multiple aspects of the basic income debate. This updated, expanded edition tackles new topics that are becoming increasingly prominent in the global debate. New chapters are devoted to recent research on the history of basic income; the development and peacemaking potential of basic income in conflict zones; municipal experiments in the United States; requirements for pilot projects and experiments; and the public health implications of basic income. Existing chapters on the implementation of basic income have also been substantially updated to take account of new research on microsimulation, land value tax, local currencies, and blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, along with new material on the increasing use of opinion polls and the difficulties related to that. New political and ethical perspectives on the role of trade unions and their increasing engagement with the basic income debate are also introduced, while the section on pilot projects and experiments has been updated to cover recent political developments. Fully updated to reflect new global developments in the basic income debate, this handbook will be of interest to researchers, teachers and research-oriented policymakers in a range of fields. Table of ContentsPart I: Introductory chapters.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The definition and characteristics of Basic Income.- Chapter 3: A short history of the Basic Income idea.- Part II: Some of the likely effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 4: Employment market effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 5: Social effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 6: The health case for Basic Income.- Chapter 7: Some effects of Basic Income on economic variables.- Chapter 8: Ecological effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 9: The gender effects of a Basic Income.- Chapter 10: Basic Income for development and peacebuilding in post-conflict settings.- Part III: The feasibility and implementation of Basic Income.- Chapter 11: Feasibility and implementation.- Chapter 12: Alternative funding methods.- Chapter 13: Analysis of the financial effects of Basic Income.- Chapter 14: Public opinion on Basic Income: What have we learnt so far?.- Chapter 15: Alternatives to Basic Income.- Part IV: Pilot projects and other experiments.- Chapter 16: The Negative Income Tax experiments of the 1970s.- Chapter 17: Citizen’s Basic Income in Brazil: The reality of pilot experiences.- Chapter 18: Basic Income by default: Lessons from Iran’s ‘cash subsidy’ programme.- Chapter 19: The Namibian Basic Income Grant Pilot.- Chapter 20: Pilots, evidence, and politics: The Basic Income debate in India.- Chapter 21: A primer on the Finnish Basic Income experiment: From design and implementation to evaluation and impact.- Chapter 22: A variety of experiments.- Chapter 23: Current and recent Basic Income and Guaranteed Income pilots in the United States.- Chapter 24: Problems with pilot projects.- Part V: Political and ethical perspectives.- Chapter 25: Libertarian perspectives on Basic Income.- Chapter 26: Socialist arguments for Basic Income.- Chapter 27: Neither left nor right.- Chapter 28: Trade unions and Basic Income.- Chapter 29: The ethics of Basic Income.- Part VI: Concluding chapter.- Chapter 30: Tentative conclusions.

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Creative mental labour and skilled mental labor.- 2. The Missing Component in Long-term Growth Theory.- 3. Long-term economic growth.- 4. Productivity increase and economic growth.- 5. Productivity increase (growth) in the service sector.- 6. Firms that only produce technologies and global growth.- 7. The plunder of skilled mental labor and growth in less developed countries.- 8. An alternative value/price theory based on creative mental labor.

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Book SynopsisIsabelle Latz analysiert unter Einbezug der Charaktereigenschaften und des Mediennutzungsverhalten die beruflichen Erwartungen der vier Generationen Babyboomer, X, Y und Z. Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit liefern damit Implikationen für eine erfolgsorientierte Personalakquisition in Anbetracht einer Generationenvielfalt. In Zeiten des demografischen und soziokulturellen Wandels ermöglicht die zielgruppenorientierte Personalbeschaffung das Erwecken von nachhaltigem Interesse an Unternehmen.Table of ContentsDer demografische Wandel fordert seinen Tribut.- Erwartungen zu Arbeitsplatz, beruflicher Selbstverwirklichung, Informationskanälen und Auswahlverfahren.- Fazit und Mehrwert: Harte (Personal-) Arbeit zahlt sich aus.

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Book SynopsisSustaining a healthy and productive work environment for employees with health issues and work disabilities or those returning to work after sick leave may present a challenge to employers. This publication offers unique insights into occupational health and rehabilitation, covering international perspectives as well as a variety of health-related disciplines. Policymakers, employers, employees, researchers and students will find new approaches to questions of how to maintain work ability and health in the workplace: Which motives influence strategic planning in the healthcare and employment sector? How can the return of employees after sick leave be facilitated? How best to implement innovations while keeping the workplace safe and healthy? And how does occupational rehabilitation benefit from evidence-based knowledge transfer?Contents• Work Ability and Work Disability• Return to Work• Work and Health• Work and InnovationTable of ContentsWork Ability and Work Disability.- Return to Work.- Work and Health.- Work and Innovation.

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Book SynopsisFrom colonial times through to the present day, large numbers of Javanese have left their homes to settle in other parts of Indonesia or much further afield. Frequently this dispersion was forced, often with traumatic results. Today, Javanese communities are found as close as Kalimantan and as far away as Suriname and the Netherlands. Meanwhile, migrant workers from Java continue to travel abroad, finding short-term employment in places like Malaysia and the Middle East. This volume traces the different ways in which Javanese migrants and migrant communities are connected in their host society and with Java as a real or imagined authoritative source of norms, values and loyalties. It underlines the importance of diaspora as a process in order to understand the evolving notions of a Javanese homeland across time and space. Even though Java as the point of departure links the different contributions, their focus is more on the process of migration and the experiences of Javanese migrants in the countries of destination. Clearly, the labour element dominates the Indonesian overseas experience. But the volume also elucidates how ethnicity, class, gender, religion and hierarchy have shaped and still inform the dynamics of diasporic communities. Many of the chapters pay particular attention to gender as women now form the majority of international migrants, domestic work being the largest category of transnational work. As a result, important aspects of the migration experience are seen in new ways via the lens of women’s experiences.

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Book SynopsisEn su edición correspondiente a 2021, el Estudio Económico de América Latina y el Caribe consta de tres partes. La primera resume el desempeño de la economía regional en 2020 y analiza su evolución durante los primeros meses de 2021, así como las perspectivas de crecimiento para 2021 y 2022. La segunda parte examina las repercusiones de la crisis generada por la pandemia de la enfermedad del coronavirus (COVID-19) en los mercados laborales de la región y hace una comparación con la trayectoria histórica de dichos mercados, con especial énfasis en la evaluación del impacto desigual de la pandemia en el empleo de mujeres y jóvenes. La tercera parte, disponible en el sitio web de la CEPAL (www.cepal.org), contiene las notas sobre el desempeño económico de los países de América Latina y el Caribe en 2020 y el primer semestre de 2021, así como los respectivos anexos estadísticos. La información presentada ha sido actualizada al 30 de julio de 2021.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on informal workers and margins and seeks to advance the discourse on the concepts of ‘work’, ‘workers’ and ‘margins’. By largely focusing on informal, non-formal and non-industrial sector workers where unionism, collective bargaining, and labour laws have little influence, the book promotes approaches to understanding alternate worker politics and organising practices. As such, it presents an alternative to conventional approaches to understanding workers in management and organisation studies. The book draws attention to the mechanisms of erasure implicit in disciplinary and governmental practices that allow the worker to remain invisible. By making the worker visible, it seeks to go beyond economistic and psychological approaches to work(ing) to understand the worker as a human being, with all the complexity, vulnerability and agency that status implies. Further, it seeks to go beyond worker victimhood to gather narratives of workers’ worlds and the possibility of alternate worlds. The contributing authors bring together diverse perspectives from fields including industrial relations, environment, displacement, collective action, livelihoods, rural development, MSMEs, organisational behaviour and entrepreneurship to present a textured and multidimensional view of workers and their worlds.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Workers and Margins: Grasping Erasures and Possibilities within Management Studies.- Section 1: Conceptual Aspects on Workers and Margins.- Chapter 2: Skill Formation and Precarious Labour: The Role of Industrial Training Institutes in India 1950-2018.- Chapter 3: Labor Beyond the Labor Market: Interrogating Marginality.- Chapter 4: Representation of Worker Marginalization and Quest for Livelihood Justice.- Chapter 5: Death of the Artisan: An Indigenous View on Marginalisation.- Section 2: Being Marginal.- Chapter 6: The Literary Worlds of Workers: Narratives of Art from the Margins.- Chapter 7: The Cosmos of Public Sector Township: Democracy as an Intellectual Culture.- Chapter 8: Marginality and its Contestations: A Case of Mining Affected in Goa.- Chapter 9: The Anti-power of the Marginalised: A postcolonial Perspective.- Chapter 10: Occupational Prestige and Informal Work: Women Domestic Workers in India.- Section 3: Surviving Marginalisation.- Chapter 11: Putting the Marginalised out of the Margins: Role of Mobilisation, Collectivisation and Livelihood Interventions.- Chapter 12: Getting Marginalised and Surviving.- Chapter 13: Leather Artisans-Workers and Global Value Chains: Protecting Autonomy, Enacting Dissent.- Chapter 14: CSO, Livelihoods and Margins.

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Book SynopsisThis book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change. It evaluates the role of education and exposure to change in physiological variables like temperature, precipitation, etc., in forming the right perception of climate change. While analysing livelihood diversification as a strategy to cope with climate change concerns across geography (districts), caste, education and the primary occupation of the households, the book also considers factors affecting diversification. One important aspect of well-being is consumption; thus, by focusing on consumption changes over time and relating it to livelihood diversification, the book makes an in-depth analysis of the coping mechanisms. Diversification adopted in the face of compulsion and in a situation of stagnancy may result in a range of low productivity activities, whereas diversification as an attempt to explore newer pathways in a vibrant context to reduce income risks and smooth consumption can be highly beneficial. The book, thus, focuses on job profile and occupational diversification of the sample households, the extent of instability in occupations and the distribution of households in terms of consumption pattern, the inter-temporal changes in it and the determinants. The book is useful for researchers, students in environmental studies, policy-makers, NGOs and also the common reader who wants to understand climate change, its effects on livelihoods and ways to overcome the shocks. It reflects on effective policies which can create awareness and empower people to explore opportunities for livelihood creation so that the overall is sustained if not improved.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Climate change impact on livelihood and well-being of rural poor.Chapter 2. Primary and Secondary Information.Chapter 3. Perceptions of Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies.Chapter 4. Livelihood Diversification in Odisha.Chapter 5. Climate Change, Diversification Strategy and Its Effectiveness: Assessing Wellbeing from Inter-temporal Changes in Consumption Outcomes.Chapter 6. Policy Recommendations.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes education in Japan from the viewpoint of “the stagnant current Japanese economy”. Tomoyuki Tamagawa, a long-time mathematics teacher in junior high school, is now a vice principal. He and Tamotsu Nakamura have written Chapter 1 of this book together because they believe that the loss of vitality in the Japanese economy is due to the problem of human capital formation in school education. Shinji Oi has worked for many years at a Japanese broadcasting station and has extensive experience in human resource development. In Chapter 2, he analyzes the relationship between optimal human capital investment and labor market mobility, based on his recognition of the importance of vocational training, or human capital investment at the firm and the necessity for good allocation of human resources. Tokuji Saita is well versed not only in the realities and practices in the financial industry but also in the financial system as a whole. In Chapter 3, based on his long experience in the financial industry, he analyzes and points out the importance of “openness” of innovation from a macroeconomic point of view.Table of ContentsChapter 1:- Relationship between educational attainment and class size: Effects of teacher resource allocation.- Chapter 2:- Investment in general and specific human capital: Social optimality via labor turnover.- Chapter3:-Necessity of openness to stimulate innovation: An investigation into causes of slow innovation.

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Book SynopsisThe knowledge economy conjures a world of smart people, in smart jobs, doing smart things, in smart ways, for smart money, a world increasingly open to all rather than a few. Glossy corporate brochures present a future in challenging, exciting and financially rewarding jobs for the winners in the competition for fast track management appointments. They also convey an image of enlightened employers actively seeking to diversify their talent pool, reflected in their approach to identifying, hiring and retaining outstanding talent. We are told that the challenge confronting governments around the world is to enhance the employability of the workforce. Every effort must be made to expand access to higher education, dismantle barriers to talent regardless of social circumstances, gender, or skin colour, and to harness human creativity and enterprise to meet the demands of the new economy.The Mismanagement of Talent comes to a different conclusion. Those leaving the world of mass higher education find themselves in a scramble for jobs with rising stakes for the winners and losers. The Mismanagement of Talent examines what determines the outcome of this race when a degree loses its badge of distinction. It shows how some graduates are playing ''the game'' to win a competitive advantage and what really happens in the selection events of leading-edge employers. It also argues that talent is being mismanaged by employers that have yet to come to terms with the realities and possibilities of mass higher education. The Mismanagement of Talent will be thought-provoking and controversial reading for those involved in the recruitment of graduates, and those concerned with the way knowledge-based firms recruit and the impact of higher education policy: Professionals working in university careers services, HRM, training, or recruitment generally; Researchers, academics, or students of Business and Management, Human Resource Management, Public Policy, Education, or Sociology; and Job candidates themselves - the ''players'' and ''purists'' described in the book.Trade ReviewThe strength of the book is its empirical material in support of insightful critiques of our contemporary economy, job market and recruitment industry.Table of Contents1. The Promise ; 2. The New Competition ; 3. What Knowledge Economy? ; 4. War for Talent ; 5. The Science of Gut Feelings ; 6. Players and Purists ; 7. Picking Winners ; 8. The Mismanagement of Talent ; 9. The Great Training Robbery

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