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Economic liberalization, distribution, and poverty : Latin America in the 1990s
Taylor, Lance (contributor); Vos, Rob (contributor);  … - 2002
Barros and Rob Vos -- 3. Argentina : macroeconomic behaviour, employment and income distribution in the 1990s / Roberto … Henrique Corseuil -- 5. Chile : trade liberalization, employment and inequality / José de Gregorio ... [et al.] -- 6 Colombia …-of-payments liberalization, remittances, employment and poverty / Alexander Segovia and Jeannette Larde -- 9. Mexico : trade liberalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852091
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Technology and the future of European employment
Soete, Luc (contributor); Petit, Pascal (contributor) - 2001
between technological change and employment in all its dimensions, focusing on contemporary economies in Europe. The authors … discuss patterns of growth, and the type of employment that countries might expect to be created following the introduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852125
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International perspectives on household wealth
Wolff, Edward N. (contributor) - 2006
The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851778
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The minimum wage revisited in the enlarged EU
Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel (contributor) - 2010
This book provides in-depth and innovative analysis of the minimum wage in Europe. The authors explore its role and … shifts focus to part-time jobs / Wiemer Salverda -- 11. Poland: minimum wage, employment and labour migration / Jacek …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850870
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The living wage : lessons from the history of economic thought
Stabile, Donald - 2008
For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851114
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Tax and transfer policy using behavioural microsimulation modelling : design and evaluation
Creedy, John; Mok, Penny - 2022
"Combining theoretical and practical aspects of policy analysis, this book evaluates actual and proposed policy reforms to income tax and transfer systems, using a behavioural tax microsimulation model. It highlights how these models allow for the full details of tax systems and the considerable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013331161
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Ageing and the labor market in Japan : problems and policies
Hamada, Kōichi (contributor); Katō, Hiromi (contributor) - 2007
1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420040
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New directions in the study of work and employment : revitalizing industrial relations as an academic enterprise
Whalen, Charles J. (contributor) - 2008
Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field's leading scholars, demonstrate there is much work to be done: the scope and intellectual content of industrial relations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851299
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The handbook of service industries
Bryson, J. R. (contributor); Daniels, P. W. (contributor) - 2007
Service activities are now acknowledged as key players in economic development, societal change and public policy worldwide. This exciting Handbook not only contributes to ongoing conceptual debates about the nature of service-led economies and societies; it also pushes back the frontiers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851497
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Trade, jobs and wages
Hoon, Hian Teck - 2000
The world's increasing integration through trade and the persistence of high unemployment in Europe, and other areas of … analyses how employment levels and real wages are affected by international trade. Popular trade theory disregards the impact … of free trade on the rate of unemployment, since it assumes full employment at the outset. By focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851537