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finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentencing …
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Just as we learn from, influence, and are influenced by others, our social interactions drive economic growth in cities, regions, and nations--determining where households live, how children learn, and what cities and firms produce. From Neighborhoods to Nations synthesizes the recent economics...
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Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead...
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Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration … rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immigration policies … liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and …
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Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as reference a perfectly … competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets is the only textbook to focus … on imperfect labor markets and to provide a systematic framework for analyzing how labor market institutions operate …
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qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs …
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, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning …
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within households, as well as market areas, like those pertaining to labor and credit markets and globalization. Mukesh … nonmarket domains. The author considers how women may be discriminated against in labor and credit markets, how their family and …
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