The 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged and ongoing period of extreme economic turbulence that has created multiple challenges for both governments and national systems of labour administration. Difficult economic conditions are encouraging a reevaluation of established...

Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Preliminary steps to understanding employment and industrial relations in South Korea / Byoung-Hoon Lee -- 1. Viewing Korean employment and industrial relations / Young-Myon Lee and Bruce E. Kaufman -- 2. The historical development of employment and labor...

Contents: 1. Industrial relations in emerging economies / Susan Hayter -- 2. Economic growth and the role of labour market institutions in India / Uma Rani and Ratna Sen -- 3. Industrial relations and inclusive development in South Africa: a dream deferred? / Susan Hayter and Nicolas Pons-Vignon...

Contents: 1. Curbing inequalities in Europe: the impact of industrial relations and labour policies / Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead and Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez -- 2. Labour market inequalities in conditions of limited social dialogue: the case of the Baltic states / Jaan Masso, Maryna Tverdostup,...

Contents: 1. Convergence in the EU: what role for industrial relations? / Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead and Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez -- 2. Social convergence of the Baltic states within the enlarged EU: is limited social dialogue an impediment? / Jaan Masso, Vladyslav Soloviov, Kerly Espenberg and...

Contents: Foreword by Andrea Camanzi -- Preface -- Part I: Background -- 1. The role of benchmarking in efficiency-enhancing strategies / Chris Nash and Ginevra Bruzzone -- 2. Methodology / Andrew Smith, Giovanni Fraquelli and Carlo Cambini -- 3. The issue of data / Ginevra Bruzzone and Chris...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Gary S. Becker (1965), 'A Theory of the Allocation of Time', Economic Journal, 75 (299), September, 493-517 2 -- 2. Reuben Gronau (1973), 'The Intrafamily Allocation of Time: The Value of the Housewives' Time', American Economic Review, 63(4),...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Justice -- 3. The divided soul -- 4. The part and the whole -- 5. Education -- 6. Form and philosophy -- 7. The political order -- 8. The social cycle -- 9. The economic system -- 10. A happy end -- References -- Works by Plato -- By other authors -- Index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Measuring inequality in the distribution of wealth -- 3. Empirical studies of the distribution of wealth -- 4. Determinants of the distribution of wealth -- 5. Determinants of changes in the distribution of wealth -- 6. Ranking alternative distributions of wealth -- 7. How...

Contents: 1. Introduction: Useful philosophy of economics / Harold Kincaid and Don Ross -- 2. Utility measurement: Some contemporary concerns / Nathaniel T. Wilcox -- 3. Making progress on causal inference in economics / Harold Kincaid -- 4. Experimental design and bayesian interpretation /...