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Gender and Time Use in a Global Context : The Economics of Employment and Unpaid Labor
Connelly, Rachel (ed.); Kongar, Ebru (ed.) - 2017
This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as important factors that interact with gender...
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The Dynamics of Opportunity in America : Evidence and Perspectives
Kirsch, Irwin (ed.); Braun, Henry (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685727
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African American Men and the Labor Market during the Great Recession
Holder, Michelle - 2017
final chapter. Michelle Holder is Assistant Professor at John Jay College, City University of New York, USA. Prior to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014018640
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The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage : How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2015
theory of labor and marriage presented in Chapter 2, which provides the conceptual framework for the rest of the chapters …. Two major implications of the theory are sex ratio effects and compensating differentials in marriage. The book …
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Arbeitsmarktökonomik
Franz, Wolfgang - 2013 - 8., akt. u. erg. Aufl. 2013
I Einführung -- 1 Der Arbeitsmarkt im Überblick: Fragen an die Arbeitsmarktökonomik -- II Die Entscheidung der privaten … Diskussion -- IV Die Koordination von Arbeitsangebot und -nachfrage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt -- 6 Matching und Mobilität -- V … Lohnstrukturen -- VI Arbeitslosigkeit -- 9 Theorie und Empirie der Arbeitslosigkeit -- 10 Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit …
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Nachfragemacht und internationaler Handel : Monopsonistischer und oligopsonistischer Wettbewerb auf dem Arbeitsmarkt
Lewerth, Tobias - 2014
gelingt es dem Autor, vermachtete Faktormärkte in die Theorie des Außenhandels zu integrieren, die klassischen Handelstheoreme … Außenhandelstheoretiker, Arbeitsmarkt- und Industrieökonomen Praktiker in Wirtschaftsinstituten, bei Verbänden und in der Regulierung Der …
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Agent-Based Modelling of Social Networks in Labour–Education Market System
Tarvid, Alexander - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
This book covers the modelling of human behaviour in the education and labour markets, which due to their interdependency are viewed as one system. Important factors influencing the decision-making of individuals and firms in this system are discussed. The role of social environment and networks...
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Collective Bargaining and Wage Formation : Performance and Challenges
Piekkola, Hannu (contributor); Snellman, Kenneth (contributor) - 2005
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The Employment Effects of Technological Change : Heterogenous Labor, Wage Inequality and Unemployment
Rubart, Jens (contributor) - 2007
This book provides an empirical and theoretical examination of the short- and medium run impacts of technological advances on the employment and wages of workers which differ in their earned educational degree. Furthermore, by introducing labor market frictions and wage setting institutions the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520753
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Services Offshoring and its Impact on the Labor Market : Theoretical Insights, Empirical Evidence, and Economic Policy Recommendations for Germany
Winkler, Deborah - 2009
Services from information technology to research to finance are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...
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