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Overeducation in Europe
Edited by Felix Büchel, Andries de Grip, Antje Mertens
Overeducation is one of the most important mechanisms for labour market adjustment when there is an excess supply of highly skilled workers. However, there is much debate about the consequences of this phenomena and the short- and long-t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Culture and the Labour Market
Siobhan Austen
Culture and the Labour Market attempts to define the meaning of culture and the nature of its possible consequences on economic processes and outcomes. In particular, the book examines alternative theoretical and empirical approaches to ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Incentives to Improve Education
Robert McMeekin
Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers), competition (educational choice, often in the form of payment for education by voucher) and threats (introduction of ex... -
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The Social Dimensions of Employment
Edited by Antonio Argandoña, Jordi Gual
The contributions to this timely volume explore the social implications of labour market reforms, and assess the complex relationship between the economic and non-economic aspects of labour institutions. The authors ascertain that labour... -
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Technology and the Future of European Employment
Edited by Pascal Petit, Luc Soete
What is the potential of the new information and communication technologies? This book assesses the relationship between technological change and employment in all its dimensions, focusing on contemporary economies in Europe. The author...eBook:Find out more£47.16
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Essays in Economic Theory, Growth and Labor Markets
Edited by George Bitros, Yannis Katsoulacos
The distinguished contributors in this volume provide a variety of essays, which are written in honor of Emmanuel Drandakis. These essays fall into four uniform areas of economics: economic growth, general equilibrium, labor economics an...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Dynamics of Full Employment
Edited by Günther Schmid, Bernard Gazier
Persistent unemployment is recognised as one of the main mechanisms of social and political exclusion. The Dynamics of Full Employment provides a new and fresh approach to the question of full employment in contemporary society. It offer...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Public Enterprise Revisited
Chrisafis H. Iordanoglou
The book compares the 1954–79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public secto...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Economics of the Apprenticeship System
Wendy Smits, Thorsten Stromback
Well-written and well-researched, this book succeeds in achieving a perfect blend of theory, evidence, and history. It will appeal to scholars in the fields of labour economics and human resource management, as well as those in private a... -
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Taxation, Welfare and the Crisis of Unemployment in Europe
Edited by Marco Buti, Paolo Sestito, Hans Wijkander
This book analyses the impact of European tax and benefit systems on incentives to create and take up jobs. European policymakers face tough choices as reforms to these systems are costly and recognising and understanding the complex tra...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour
Edited by Pier Luigi Porta, Roberto Scazzieri, Andrew Skinner
This fascinating book is divided into three parts beginning with the issue of the development of science as an aspect of the division of labour, starting from methodological problems on the communication of scientific knowledge. The vol...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Trade, Jobs and Wages
Hian Teck Hoon
The 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 an...eBook:Find out more£25.00
