Introduction -- Defining talent: Between human capital and the creative economy -- Positioning Talent: history, cities and the growing importance of talent -- Challenging talent: Cities and the cycle of rising disparities -- Raising talent: higher education and uneven career outcomes -- Exposing...

‘What motivates contemporary workers who can no longer rely on a stable employment in corporations? Alexander Styhre offers unique insights into this question in his book. Having taken a close look at venture work, contract work and freelancing, Styhre throws a new light on the changing...

Chapter 1: When will formality become the norm? -- Chapter 2: Self-employment and Human Capital -- Chapter 3: Informal and Formal Employment in a Liberalizing Economy -- Chapter 4: Migrants and Informal Casual Labour Markets -- Chapter 5: Wage Disparity and Human Capital Accumulation -- Chapter...

Section I: Conceptualizing Labour Questions in the Global South -- Chapter 1: Labour questions in the Global South -- Chapter 2: The Concept of ‘Working People’ -- Chapter 3: The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour -- Chapter 4: Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying...

Evolution of Gig Economy: A Review -- Gig Workforce: A Saviour During COVID-19 Pandemic -- Sustaining Gig Economy in Industry 4.0 -- Dark Side of Gig Economy: A Legal Perspective -- Achieving SDGs Under Gig Economy -- Managing Business in Crisis: Future Implications of COVID-19.

Das öffentliche Bewusstsein für steuerliche Regelverstöße ist nach vielseitigen Korruptions- und Steuerskandalen neu geweckt: So rücken auch Compliance-Instrumente für die öffentliche Hand inzwischen immer stärker in den Fokus – etwa der Einsatz eines verwaltungsspezifischen internen...

1. Employment Relations in Outsourced Public Services: Working Between Market and State -- Part I. The Case of Italy -- 2. Public Services under Austerity: Structure of the Public Sector and Drivers of Outsourcing -- 3. State-controlled Dualisation between Public and Private Employment:...

Chapter 1. Public Pensions Systems. Bibliometric Study of Academic Publications in Scientific Journals -- Chapter 2. Demographic and Social Challenges in the Design of Public Pension Schemes -- Chapter 3. The Public Pension Systems and the Economic Crisis -- Chapter 4. Pensions, Economic Growth...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Ireland -- Chapter 3: UK -- Chapter 4: Australia -- Chapter 5: New Zealand -- Chapter 6: USA -- Chapter 7: Canada -- Chapter 8: Implications for Workers in New Sectors of Economic Activity -- Chapter 9: Implications for Society - Between the Profit...

The New Ideal Worker: Introduction -- Hope for the (New) Ideal Worker: Resolving the Flexibility-Availability Paradox -- Fathers’ Working Times in Germany: The Role of the Ideal Worker Norm in the Context of Other Cultural and Structural Workplace Conditions -- A Closer Look to Millennials in...