Labour Economics

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...

Paperback (2007)

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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...

Hardback (2007)

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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...

Hardback (2007)

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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...

Hardback (December 2006)

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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.

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Understanding Modern Money

L. Randall Wray

In this innovative and very practical book, Randall Wray argues that full employment and price stability are not the incompatible goals that current economic theory and policy assume. Indeed, he advances a policy that would generate true...

Paperback (2006)

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Labour Market Adjustments in Europe

Edited by Julián Messina, Claudio Michelacci, Jarkko Turunen, Gylfi Zoega

The group of contributors in this book come from academia and international organizations in Europe and the USA. They focus on trade unions, which affect real-wage flexibility and the provision of training to workers. They also concentra...

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Money and Employment

Peter Docherty

Money and Employment examines the analytical role of money within classical, neoclassical and Keynesian theories of output and employment.

Hardback (October 2005)

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Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe

Edited by Ramón Gómez-Salvador, Ana Lamo, Barbara Petrongolo, Melanie Ward, Etienne Wasmer

Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe highlights recent developments in the labour supply in Europe and gives a detailed assessment of their link with economic policies and labour market institutions. Despite major changes in Eu...

Hardback (August 2005)

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Technology and the Decline in Demand for Unskilled Labour

Mark Sanders

The position of low skilled workers in the labour market has deteriorated significantly over the past three decades. What has caused this deterioration in low skilled labour demand and what can explain the different labour market respons...

Hardback (2005)

List price ~~$147.00~~

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