Contents: Part I: The changing context -- 1. Understanding the future of work / Adrian Wilkinson and Michael Barry -- Part II: Changing practices -- 2. Work 'or' employment in the 21st century: its impact on the employment relationship / Chris Brewster and Peter Holland -- 3. Unpaid work...

How do workers fare in a continually changing labor market? This volume contains fifteen original scientific papers each examining how socio-economic changes affect worker wellbeing. Among the findings are: most increases in female labor force participation occur among women with high husbands'...

1. International migration -- 2. Immigration and prices -- 3. Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China -- 4. International Competition Intensified -- 5. Effects of Remittance Behavior on the Lives of Recent Immigrants to Canada from the Philippines -- 6. Gender pay...

In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the...

Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Markets is an edited collection of papers drawn from the conference held at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in June 1997. This conference brought German and American perspectives to bear on the complex issues of global...

Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung widmet sich wichtigen, allgemein interessierenden Phänomenen, die sie beschreibt, erklärt und wofür sie Zukunftsperspektiven bietet. Unter Einbezug wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse stellt sie Entscheidungsgrundlagen für Unternehmensplanung und politische...