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![Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States]()
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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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]()
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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Education, Training and Employment Dynamics]()
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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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]()
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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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European Working Lives
Edited by Steve Jeffreys, Frederik M. Beyer, Christer Thörnqvist
The contributors examine global trends such as the decentralisation of industrial relations and the revival of neo-liberalism, and discuss them from a theoretical and empirical perspective. They go on to argue that these global trends ca... -
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Working-Time Changes
Edited by Jacqueline O’Reilly, Inmaculada Cebrián, Michel Lallement
Drawing on both quantitative longitudinal panel study data and qualitative case study material, the authors (whose expertise is drawn from the fields of economics, sociology and law) provide an original perspective on the nature and impl...
