This volume contains 15 essays devoted to a number of multifaceted issues regarding how public policy affects worker well-being. Of the 15 chapters, the first two are the more general, dealing with overall earnings distribution and overall changes in welfare policy. The remaining chapters...

Tourism is not only affected by pandemics and epidemics but also contributes to their spread, affecting not only tourists but also the communities in their destinations. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a new crisis, challenging the travel industry more than ever before. Several studies have...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Women more often than men take care of their ageing relatives together with their own children or grandchildren. These Sandwich Generation (SG) women constitute an expanding vulnerable group on the labour market...

This volume addresses a variety of topics where economic concepts are intertwined with important legal and policy issues in North America and Europe. Five articles involve analyses of competition issues, including economic plus factors in price fixing cases, the impact of refusals to deal on...

An 1880 list of references in economics / Warren J. Samuels -- Walton H. Hamilton's outlines for the principles of economics, University of Michigan, 1911 / Warren J. Samuels -- Lectures by James S. Earley on the development of economics, University of Wisconsin, 1954-1955 / Warren J. Samuels --...

Documents and minutes of the General Faculty / James L. Kinneavy -- Lecture notes from economics 327 : comparative economic systems / Edward E. Hale -- Economics 389 : marxian and neo-classical economic theory (development of economic thought from 1848-1900) / Edward Everett Hale -- Metaphysics,...

Introduction / Barry R. Chiswick -- Migrants to America since 1986 / David M. Reimers -- Immigrant skill transferability and the propensity to invest in human capital / Harriet O. Duleep -- Modeling immigrants language skills / Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller -- Green cards and the location...

This volume of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology offers a unique insight into early American economic theory. The notes reproduced in this volume were taken by a student, Maurice Beck Hexter, in Economics 11-12, "Economic Theory," given by Frank William Taussig at...

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott), John Ryan on minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of recent...

Volume 17 of Advances in financial economics, entitled "Corporate governance in the US and global settings" will provide further insights into corporate governance in the US & global economic and financial environment by publishing international, within-country and cross-country comparative...