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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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Many writers either glorify globalization or vilify it, particularly for its destructive environmental effects. In this … book environmental sociologist Arthur Mol provides a more balanced understanding of the relationship between globalization … processes of modernization and globalization often result in environmental degradation, they also can encourage policies and …
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Media have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization …, globalization entails competition among states as well as private entities to dominate the world's consciousness. Changes in formal …
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synthesis of fifteen years of research—linking his own work to related research by others—on the globalization of production and …
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interdisciplinary attempt to analyze a crisis that is not merely financial in nature but implicates globalization and neoliberal …
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