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Economic Transition and Labor Market Reform in China
Ma, Xinxin - 2018
This book empirically investigates the changes in labor market structure accompanying the labor market reform in China … reform in China, particularly the influences of labor policy reforms on labor market performance. Offering valuable insights … Distribution and Wage Gap between Rural and Urban Residents -- 8. Impact of China’s Higher Education Expansion Policy on Youth …
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Managing Expatriates in China : A Language and Identity Perspective
Zhang, Ling Eleanor; Harzing, Anne-Wil; Fan, Shea Xuejiao - 2018
studying expatriation in Asia, and China more specifically, and for those considering living there.’ -Dr. Yvonne McNulty … myself in China and having lived and worked for almost two decades as an expatriate academic in Chinese dominated societies … managing expatriates in the changing host country of China, this book investigates expatriate management from a language and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397763
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The Age of Productivity : Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up
Pagés, Carmen (ed.) - 2010
Age of Productivity offers a look at how the low productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is preventing the region from catching up with the developed world. The authors look beyond the traditional macro explanations and dig all the way down to the industry and firm level to uncover the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106159
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The labour markets of emerging economies : has growth translated into more and better jobs?
Cazes, Sandrine - 2013
The past few decades have witnessed the economic and geopolitical rise of a number of large middle-income countries around the world. This volume focuses on the labour market situations, trends and regulations in these emerging economies
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106397
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Global Perspectives on Workers' and Labour Organizations
Atzeni, Maurizio (ed.); Ness, Immanuel (ed.) - 2018
This book broadens the research on the underworld of precarious and not-represented workers, through a selection of original case studies from across the globe written by leading experts. The book unveils the working conditions affecting this vast labour force that is so important to capital...
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Macroeconomic Policy and a Living Wage : The Employment Act as Redistributive Economics, 1944–1969
Stabile, Donald R. - 2018
“Donald Stabile provides a fascinating history of the economic and political debates leading up to, and following, the Employment Act of 1946. Contrary to common understanding, Stabile argues that there were strong tensions between New Dealers and Keynesians, including around their vision of...
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The Concept of Sustainability and Its Application to Labor Market Policy : A Discussion of Political Feasibility, Implementation, and Measurability
Lubk, Claudia - 2017
Claudia Lubk analyzes the transferal between the guiding principle of sustainability and the policy field of labor market policy. She discusses both separately to elaborate the most important aspects necessary to make the transition towards sustainable labor market policy. In addition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397208
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The Job Guarantee and Modern Money Theory : Realizing Keynes’s Labor Standard
Murray, Michael J. (ed.); Forstater, Mathew (ed.) - 2017
The contributors to this edited collection argue that a flexible Job Guarantee program able to react to an economy’s fluctuating need for work would stabilize the labor standard, the value of employment in relation to money. During economic downturns, the program would expand to provide more...
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Spanish Sociedades Laborales—Activating the Unemployed : A Potential New EU Active Labour Market Policy Instrument
Lowitzsch, Jens; Dunsch, Sophie; Hashi, Iraj - 2017
This book investigates the potential of the Spanish Sociedades Laborales (SLs) as an instrument of active labour market policy for re-turning the unemployed to the labour market. SLs are mostly small and micro enterprises and a qualified form of the conventional corporation, majority-owned by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397718
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Arbeitswelten der Zukunft : wie die Digitalisierung unsere Arbeitsplätze und Arbeitsweisen verändert
Hermeier, Burghard (ed.); Heupel, Thomas (ed.);  … - 2019
Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich damit, wie sich die Arbeitswelt in Zukunft verändern wird, wie diese Veränderungen gestaltet werden können und welche Auswirkungen auf Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Gesellschaft zu erwarten sind. Die Digitale Transformation führt durch technologische Entwicklungen...
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