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This fascinating study compares and contrasts the immense internal migration movements in China and Indonesia. Over the next two decades, approximately two-thirds of the rural labour force is expected to migrate, transforming their respective societies from primarily rural to urban based
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pt. 1. Labour market mobility and in-work transitions -- pt. 2. 'Scarring' effects of unemployment and non …
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In Fiscal Policy and Social Welfare John Creedy examines alternative tax and transfer systems and their redistributive effects. Drawing on original research, this volume concentrates on modelling tax structures and their implications for social welfare and income distribution. After reviewing...
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This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very …. This shift has produced new difficulties, and has undermined central tenets of neoclassical macroeconomic theory (such as …, not only in many aspects of the history of economic theory, but also in fundamental issues in the theories of value …
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game theory and applications. The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic … understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems … as, for example, unemployment, the intergenerational transmission of human capital and the response of wages to price and …
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debate. This book will be of interest and relevance to academics in the fields of environmental economics, labour theory and …
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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 that have been relatively neglected in previous research and...
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The world's increasing integration through trade and the persistence of high unemployment in Europe, and other areas of … the world, highlight the need to understand the implications of free trade for unemployment. Trade, Jobs and Wages … analyses how employment levels and real wages are affected by international trade. Popular trade theory disregards the impact …
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