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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Part I Background on immigration -- Chapter 1 Why study the economics of immigration? -- Types of immigrants -- Immigration is controversial -- Immigration versus international trade --...
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- 1. The Engineering Labor Market -- Part I. Engineering Education -- 2. Career Plans of Undergraduate Engineering Students -- 3. Engineering Educational Opportunity -- 4. Bridging the Gaps between Engineering Education and Practice -- Part...
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword / Robert M. Solow and Eric Wanner -- Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview / Eileen Appelbaum, Gerhard Bosch, Jérôme Gautié, Geoff Mason, Ken Mayhew, Wiemer Salverda, John Schmitt, and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen -- Part I. Low-Wage Work and National...
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Many countries have social security systems that are currently financially unsustainable. Economists and policy makers have long studied this problem and identified two key causes. First, as declining birth rates raise the share of older persons in the population, the ratio of retirees to...
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Summary -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Historical View of International Immigration -- 1.1.2 International Immigration in Asian Countries -- 1.2 Economic Theory on International Migration: Special Subjects -- 1.2.1 Unemployment -- 1.2.2...
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Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 -- Modernization, human biology, and a tale of two domains -- Chapter 2 -- The labor market bias of the welfare state literature -- Modernization and the origins of thewelfare state literature -- Power resources and political...
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The Golden Age of postwar capitalism has been eclipsed, and with it seemingly also the possibility of harmonizing equality and welfare with efficiency and jobs. In his first major book since The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Europe's leading analyst of the welfare state presents a...
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This study reviews world-wide responses to the global financial crisis and contributes to the ongoing debate on restoring stability. The study provides evidence-based policy analysis on how ILO Members can best mitigate the effects of the crisis and advocates the need for a global jobs pact to...
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In this book, one of Germany's most influential economists describes his country's economy, the largest in the European Union and the third largest in the world, and analyzes its weaknesses: poor GDP growth performance, high unemployment due to a malfunctioning labor market, and an unsustainable...
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The annual Global Employment Trends reports provide the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty. They also analyse country-level issues and project trends in the labour market up to 2019
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