Labour Economics

  1. Add to Wish List Overeducation in Europe

    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...
    Hardback (2004)

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  2. Add to Wish List Culture and the Labour Market

    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 ...
    Hardback (2003)

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  3. Add to Wish List Incentives to Improve Education

    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...
    Hardback (2003)

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  4. Add to Wish List The Social Dimensions of Employment

    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...
    Hardback (2003)

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  5. Add to Wish List Technology and the Future of European Employment

    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...
    Paperback (2003)

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    Hardback (2001)

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  6. Add to Wish List Essays in Economic Theory, Growth and Labor Markets

    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...
    Hardback (2002)

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  7. Add to Wish List The Dynamics of Full Employment

    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...
    Hardback (2002)

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  8. Add to Wish List Public Enterprise Revisited

    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...
    Hardback (2001)

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  9. Add to Wish List The Economics of the Apprenticeship System

    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...
    Hardback (May 2001)

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  10. Add to Wish List Taxation, Welfare and the Crisis of Unemployment in Europe

    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...
    Hardback (2001)

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  11. Add to Wish List Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour

    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...
    Hardback (March 2001)

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  12. Add to Wish List Trade, Jobs and Wages

    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...
    Hardback (2000)

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