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Full employment abandoned : shifting sands and policy failures

Mitchell, William - 2008

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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Measuring more than money : the social economics of job quality

Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente, Rafael (contributor) - 2011

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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Full employment in Europe : managing labour market transitions and risks

Schmid, Günther - 2008

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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The political economy of wages and unemployment : a neoclassical exploration

Coleman, William - 2010

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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Capitalism on trial : explorations in the tradition of Thomas E. Weisskopf

Wicks-Lim, Jeannette (ed.); Pollin, Robert (ed.); … - 2013

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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Learning in labour markets

Waldman, Michael (ed.) - 2017

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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Handbook of the politics of labour, work and employment

Gall, Gregor (ed.) - 2019

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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Handbook of research on entrepreneurship and creativity

Sternberg, Rolf G. (ed.); Krauss, Gerhard (ed.) - 2014

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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Creative knowledge environments : the influences on creativity in research and innovation

Martin, Ben R. (contributor); … - 2004

, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activity …

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Handbook of research on creativity

Thomas, John K. (ed.); Chan, Janet B. L. (ed.) - 2013

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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