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"This authoritative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labour markets of firms, it clearly lays out the current state of...
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This Handbook is an authoritative and invaluable reference tool, uniquely analysing the forces governing unionism, union behaviour and union impact from a variety of perspectives, both theoretical and empirical. The 14 chapters are written in an accessible style by acknowledged leading...
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"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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increase in wage inequality. This book provides explanations of these two characteristics of modern economies and analyses them … of wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the relatively low productivity growth experienced … by most countries. The author provides a number of alternative theories for the increase in wage inequality as a result …
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tangible evidence of substantial cross-cultural differences in beliefs about wage inequality …
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This book presents an evidence-based assessment of the impact of EU enlargement on industrial relations and social standards in old and new EU Member States. It combines chapters which give an overview of the process of enlargement/integration and comparative socio-economic data at EU and...
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1. Introduction -- Part I: basic concepts -- 2. Piketty's contribution -- 3. Measurement -- 4. Inequality and aggregate … debt and instability -- 7. Recursive workhorses -- Part III: the macro inference of inequality -- 8. Rent, wealth and … bubbles -- 9. A model with heterogeneous supply -- 10. Wealth and capital gains in financial markets -- Part IV: inequality …
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Tabellini (1994), 'Is Inequality Harmful for Growth?,' American Economic Review, 84 (3), June, 600-621 -- Roland Bénabou , (2000 … and Omer Moav (2004), 'From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality and the Process of Development', Review of …-32 -- Oded Galor , Omer Moav and Dietrich Vollrath (2009), 'Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting …
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"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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Part I framing the discussion on the competitiveness challenge -- 1. Boosting European competitiveness / Marek Belka, Ewald Nowotny, Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald and Pawel Samecki -- 2. Harnessing foreign direct investment to boost economic growth / Beata S. Jarvorcik -- 3. Correcting external...
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