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Full Employment Abandoned
William Mitchell, Joan Muysken
This 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 une...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economics of Labor and Employment Law
Edited by John J. Donohue III
For this comprehensive collection, the editor has selected some of the most important labor law and economics papers today. This two-volume set tracks the development of the theoretical and empirical scholarship on labor law across a num... -
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Recent Developments in Labor Economics
Edited by John T. Addison
This comprehensive set of papers charts the main developments in contemporary labour economics, with an emphasis on issues of measurement. Topics covered in the first volume include the effects of adjustment costs on employment and the m... -
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Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy
Edited by Diane Perrons, Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Kath Ray, Kevin Ward
Contemporary societies are characterised by new and more flexible working patterns, new family structures and widening social divisions. This book explores how these macro-level changes affect the micro organisation of daily life, with r...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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The WTO and Labor and Employment
Edited by Drusilla K. Brown, Robert M. Stern
The central focus of this collection is to provide the reader access to the seminal papers analyzing the accommodation of labor interests within the WTO. This comprehensive volume establishes an understanding of the interaction between g... -
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Recent Developments in the Economics of Training
Edited by Francis Green
This two volume collection covers important developments in the theory and empirical analysis of training since the start of the 1990s. It includes the seminal articles on training theory in the context of imperfect markets, which are es... -
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The Labour Market and Economic Development of Taiwan
Edited by Joseph S. Lee
An integrated labour market model (a revision of the Harris–Todaro dualistic labour market model) is presented which can be used to analyze labour market operation in other developing countries. The effectiveness of various policies adop... -
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The Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies
Edited by Jaap de Koning
This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consid...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Handbook on the Economics of Education
Edited by Geraint Johnes, Jill Johnes
This major Handbook comprehensively surveys the rapidly growing field of the economics of education. It is unique in that it comprises original contributions on an exceptional range of topics from a review of human capital, signalling an...eBook:Find out more$80.76
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Redesigning the Welfare State
Hans-Werner Sinn, Christian Holzner, Wolfgang Meister, Wolfgang Ochel, Martin Werding
Redesigning the Welfare State argues that the current high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way the country''s welfare system is desig... -
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The Theory of International Trade and Unemployment
Paul Oslington
In this book, Paul Oslington underlines the contradiction between the prominence of job losses in political conflict over trade liberalization, and trade economists usually working with full employment models. -
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Labour Supply and Microsimulation
John Creedy, Guyonne Kalb
This book provides a detailed introduction to behavioural tax microsimulation methods and reviews the use of such models for evaluating tax policy reforms.