Recently, a series of shocks have affected management practices in firms all over the world. For one, the dramatic decline in the cost of information processing has led to increased adoption of new information technologies. A second shock is the dramatic change since the 1970s that has occurred...

<DIV>This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young. The thirteen studies detail the ambiguity and inadequacy of our present standard statistics...</div>

<DIV><DIV><I>Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century</I> provides the first in-depth assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to the decline of private sector unions.<BR><BR>This important volume provides case studies of new labor market institutions and new...</i></div></div>

<DIV>Since the 1970s, the striking increase in immigration to the United States has been accompanied by a marked change in the composition of the immigrant community, with a much higher percentage of foreign-born workers coming from Latin America and Asia and a dramatically lower percentage from...</div>

<DIV><P>The historical relationship between capital and labor has evolved in the past few decades. One particularly noteworthy development is the rise of shared capitalism, a system in which workers have become partial owners of their firms and thus, in effect, both employees and stockholders. Profit...</p></div>

<DIV>During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings. These twelve original essays explore whether this trend is unique to the United States...</div>