Labour Policy

Regulating Working-Time Transitions in Europe

Edited by Jacqueline O’Reilly

This book provides an overview of the institutional arrangements affecting labour market transitions through different working-time arrangements in seven European countries. It examines the extent to which social integration through tran...

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Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States

Edited by Ola Bergström, Donald Storrie

Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States examines the developments in labour markets in advanced economies in the 21st century, as regards contingent employment. This is defined as employment relationships that can be termin...

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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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Forecasting Labour Markets in OECD Countries

Edited by Michael Neugart, Klaus Schömann

This book offers a wide-ranging overview of the state of labour market forecasting in selected OECD countries. Besides presenting forecasting models, the contributions provide an introduction to past experiences of forecasting, highlight...

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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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Global Skill Shortages

Malcolm S. Cohen, Mahmood A. Zaidi

As the world entered the twenty-first century, global skill shortages in many occupations were evident throughout the world. While these were mitigated by a global recession, there is no generally agreed upon method for measuring these s...

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Education, Training and Employment Dynamics

Edited by Klaus Schömann, Philip J. O’Connell

Education and training are of critical importance to individual employment prospects. This book questions whether the policies that govern education, training and employment actually facilitate or inhibit social integration. The author...

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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...

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Labour Markets, Gender and Institutional Change

Edited by Hugh Mosley, Jacqueline O’Reilly

The original essays in this book have been written by a number of leading international experts in the field of labour market studies to honour the intellectual contribution and lifetime achievement of Günther Schmid.

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Strategy, Organization and the Changing Nature of Work

Edited by Jordi Gual, Joan E. Ricart

New technologies, global markets and increased competitive pressures mean that companies are having to reinvent themselves, reappraise their competitive strategies and rethink the ways in which they organize business activities. This tim...

Hardback (2001)

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Labour Market Policy and Unemployment

Edited by Jaap de Koning, Hugh Mosley

This book examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies and their contribution to the prevention of social exclusion. The evaluation studies reported in this volume focus on two aspects of active labour market policies tha...

Hardback (2001)

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