This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after …1. The Position of African American Men in the US Labor Market Prior to the Great Recession for the Years 2002 … Theoretical Considerations -- 3. African American Men’s Decline in Labor Market Status during the Great Recession -- 4. The Role …

Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840. Her study focuses …-ranging study which will be of great interest to historians, economists and Asia specialists …

. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often …

ecosystems are understood if the Great Transformations ahead are to lead to more sustainability. It shows that history is made by …

during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the … effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits variation across countries using non-signers as a comparison group. The … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …

finds that the main factor contributing to poverty reduction has been individuals' changes in labor earnings, and the role …

This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that … jure labor codes as predicted by legal origin theory, they enforce them less, suggesting a more nuanced version of legal … created economies characterized by monopolies and exploitation of workers, which ultimately led to stringent labor laws in an …