resource for academics and students of labour economics and policy, employment relations, social policy, business, and …

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 …

1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor …

this book, Kurt Kratena studies the employment effects of revenue neutral tax shifts from labour to energy, and measures … bargaining and efficiency wages) are derived and taken as the starting point for different specifications of the labour market … equilibrium model only finds employment double dividend effects. The book also highlights the potentially positive economic …

economic, industrial and technological developments are subject to rigorous scrutiny and critique - from the employment effects …

analyses how employment levels and real wages are affected by international trade. Popular trade theory disregards the impact … the world, highlight the need to understand the implications of free trade for unemployment. Trade, Jobs and Wages … of free trade on the rate of unemployment, since it assumes full employment at the outset. By focusing on the …

innovation / Ian Miles -- Small and medium-sized enterprises and the consumption of traded (producer service expertise) versus … -- The nature of services / Sven Illeris -- Services and innovation : conceptual and theoretical perspectives / Jeremy …

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 …