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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 …

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New directions in the study of work and employment : revitalizing industrial relations as an academic enterprise

Whalen, Charles Joseph (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...

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Labour markets, gender and institutional change : essays in honour of Günther Schmid

Schmid, Günther; Mosley, Hugh; O'Reilly, Jacqueline; … - 2002

The original essays in this book have been written by a number of leading international experts in the field of labour market studies to honour the intellectual contribution and lifetime achievement of Günther Schmid

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The handbook of service industries

Bryson, John R. (contributor); Daniels, Peter 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...

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Trade, jobs and wages

Hoon, Hian Teck - 2000

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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The evaluation of active labour market policies : measures, public private partnerships and benchmarking

Koning, Jaap de (contributor) - 2007

This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consider three means of doing so: improving the quality by better...

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Flexibility and employment security in Europe : labour markets in transition

Muffels, R. J. A. (contributor) - 2008

high standards of income and employment security. Special interest is devoted to the way in which countries opt for …-standard employment -- pt. 3. 'Best policy practices' in Australia, Canada and Denmark …

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Labour supply and incentives to work in Europe

Gómez Salvador, Ramón (contributor) - What explains the pattern of labour supply in Europe … - 2005

pt. 1. Incentives to work -- pt. 2. Factors affecting labour force participation -- pt. 3. New forms of employment …

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