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This book dismantles the arguments used by policy makers to justify the abandonment of full employment as a valid goal of national governments. Bill Mitchell and Joan Muysken trace the theoretical analysis of the nature and causes of unemployment over the last 150 years and argue that the shift...
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Job quality is a crucial link between the economy and well-being. This original book proves that it can and should be measured, proposing a theoretically based multidimensional "Index of Job Quality" that is tested in the EU member States. The index proves particularly useful to measure the...
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Transitional Labour Markets (TLM) - defined as legitimate, negotiated and politically supported sets of various employment options in critical events over the life course - are an essential ingredient of modern full employment strategies. After assessing the European Employment Strategy, this...
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1. The problem labour monopoly might solve -- 2. The fall and rise of labour monopoly theory -- 3. How a wage bill hill creates a wage rate floor -- 4. Why the floor will fluctuate -- 5. How bargaining may build a ceiling instead of a floor -- 6. How foresight may (and may not) defeat the floor...
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This volume presents a collection of essays honoring Professor Thomas E. Weisskopf, one of the most prominent contributors to the field of radical economics. Beginning his academic career at Harvard before moving to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Professor Weisskopf has spent the past...
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Recommended readings (Machine generated): Michael Spence (1973), 'Job Market Signaling', 87 (3), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, 355-74 -- Boyan Jovanovic (1979), 'Job Matching and the Theory of Turnover', Journal of Political Economy, 87 (5), Part 1, October, 972-90 -- Eugene F. Fama...
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Contents: 1. The politics of labour, work and employment / Gregor Gall -- Part I: Foundations for understanding the politics of labour, work and employment -- 2. A theoretical framework for labour, work, and employment research / Bruce E. Kaufman -- 3. Pre- and post-capitalist labour, work and...
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This Handbook focuses on the interdependent relationship between entrepreneurship and creativity. This relationship is …, psychology, and also in different spatial contexts. Creativity and entrepreneurship are central concepts for understanding the … introduction to the role of creativity in the field of entrepreneurship, and vice versa. This Handbook assembles some of the …
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, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activity …
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pt. I. Research on creativity -- pt. II. Ways of conceptualising and assessing creativity -- pt. III. The creative … process -- pt. IV. Practices of creativity -- pt. V. Conditions for creativity -- pt. VI. Leading/managing creativity. … human innovation, contributing to a developing sociocultural approach to the study of creativity. These chapters directly …
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