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Explaining the gender wage gap : the missing aspects of discrimination

Sielska, Alicja - 2023

"This timely book offers a fascinating contemporary analysis of research into the gender pay gap while also providing important nuanced observations. It illustrates the variant methodologies that have been employed by researchers who have attempted to elucidate this challenging topic. Explaining...

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The learning region : foundations, state of the art, future

Rutten, Roel (contributor); Boekema, Frans (contributor) - 2007

USA and South Africa draw upon various disciplines to explain how regional actors perform regional learning …

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Recruitment, retention, and retirement in higher education : building and managing the faculty of the future

Ma, Jennifer (contributor); Clark, Robert Louis (contributor) - 2005

This volume examines some of the most pressing employment and compensation issues confronting academic administrators. Contributors discuss topics such as: ageing of faculty, changing economic conditions and shifts in faculty employment patterns, rapid increases in health care costs and trends...

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Culture and the labour market

Austen, Siobhan - 2003

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 the economic analysis of cultural effects in the labour...

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Knowledge, inequality, and growth in the new economy

Nahuis, Richard - 2003

During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today - information and communication technology (ICT) - does...

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Making and breaking gender inequalities in work

Rönnmar, Mia (ed.); Hayter, Susan (ed.) - 2024

"This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite the progress made through frameworks regulating work and employment relations, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated gender divides in labour markets. The authors present innovative ways to...

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Human capital policy : reducing inequality, boosting mobility and productivity

Neumark, David (ed.); Kim, Yong-seong (ed.); … - 2021

those of industrializing economies in Asia, focusing particularly on Korea and the USA. Contributors analyse trends in … policy prescriptions for the improvement of higher education financing in the USA. Offering theoretical insights into the … chapters consider recent empirical evidence on disadvantaged people in the USA, before broadening the scope of analysis to …

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Human capital, inter-firm mobility and organizational evolution

Pennings, Johannes M. - 2007

The authors of this fascinating and original work contend that by analysing the conduct of organization members, a great deal can be learnt about firm behaviour and about the cooperative and competitive forces that underlie industry evolution

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Strategic human capital : creating a sustainable competitive advantage

Lanza, Andrea; Simone, Giuseppina - 2020

Contents: 1. Strategic human capital at the crossroads -- 2. Understanding and clarifying the dynamics of strategic human capital effects on performance: a quasi-replication of a major literature evidence -- 3. The effect of strategic human capital renewal on organizational results: an empirical...

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Handbook of research in international human resource management

Stahl, Günter K. (contributor); … - 2006

'Handbook of Research in International Human Resource Management represents a welcome contribution of IHRM literature and will be required readings for both novices and veteran researchers.' - Dana B. Minbaeva, British Journal of Industrial Relations ' ... a rich array of contributors including...

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