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For most of recorded history, men's pay has tended to be higher than women's. In Unequal Pay for Women and Men, Heather Joshi and Pierella Paci look at why gender pay inequality matters. They argue that no amount of training, maternity and parental leave, or child care provisions will change...
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This book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or facing their first refereeing assignments. In clear,...
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, China, or the former Soviet Union will cause a collapse of the welfare state and of society's well-being. "Globalization … reverse the commonly held view that globalization has caused today's insecure labor market. On the contrary, Cohen argues, our … own propensity for transforming the nature of work has created a niche for globalization and given it an ominous dimension …
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effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as … how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain … globalization of the capital market. Applying a political economy model and drawing on empirical data from the EU and the United …
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wit and accessible style to the subject of globalization. Notably, he argues that the true Clinton scandal lay in the … administration's mismanagement of globalization—resulting in the paradox of immense domestic policy success combined with dramatic … International Labour Organization instead of the WTO and via trade treaties. Bhagwati also criticizes the claim that "globalization …
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evaluates the significance of globalization for governmental trade policies and public attitudes about regional alliances. …
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the sometimes puzzling relationships among purity, price, and risk; the effect of globalization on the heroin and cocaine …
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change, shifting product markets, and globalization. Chips and Change also offers insights into how chip firms have developed …
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perpetual growth. But the consequences of addiction to growth are dire in an era of globalization. If a billion Chinese consume … a billion cars, the future of the planet is threatened. But, Cohen points out, there is another kind of globalization …: the immaterial globalization enabled by the Internet. It is still possible, he argues, that the cyber-world will create a …
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In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is …
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