this, we examine the labour markets and employment trends to be found in the region, raising a number of issues relating to … future job prospects. We argue that these labour market/employment phenomena and peoplemanagement developments are closely …

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

, it delivers an expression for the employment rate and as side-products, a measure of the unemployment rate and the size … rationalizes differences in employment rates: in the U.S., we find a market productivity premium of +30% and market frictions of …

Capitalism is not the only form of economy. Alternative economies - people’s economies - exist in which human needs and … capitalism. The paper aims to contribute to the discourse on alternatives to capitalism. We go about by first examining recent … works dealing with the issue of alternatives to capitalism (and neoliberalism). We define `alternative’ as an on …

The Labor Market and Employment (Handbook article). The labor market differs from typical markets in important ways. We … find job competition and collective mechanisms that set wages and working conditions. Changes in employment bring about … changes in wages and prices and entail political and monetary responses. The goals of price stability and full employment …

and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …

for introducing them is to make employment more likely for those who currently do not work. Given the extent of the …