The sectoral composition of economies is fundamental to the understanding of growth, unemployment and the relative performance of nations. Henri de Groot models the relationship between these four factors from a single theoretical persp...
The 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 new methods in the organisation of labour have been implemen...
This selection of John Creedy’s essays on labour economics sheds light on the areas of labour mobility, skilled labour markets and trade unions and wages.
The 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.
Edited by Joep T.J.M. van der Linden, André J.C. Manders
Income distribution is one of the most important issues related to social change and is a central question in public policy. Despite this, income distribution is often neglected by mainstream economics. This important book seeks to rec...
This innovative book assesses the impact of labour standards on the competitiveness of firms through a comparison of developing and industrialized countries.
This comprehensive book presents an original reconstruction of the different interpretations of the Phillips curve. The authors demonstrate through an in-depth analysis how it is possible to find non-neoclassical foundations in the trade...
Edited by Rita Asplund, Peter Sloane, Ioannis Theodossiou
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 af...
After 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 prob...
Insufficient 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 assessmen...
The 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...
