Comprehensive analysis of urban and rural labour market reform in China. Documents and analyses institutional changes over the last twenty years and offers evidence that further labour market reform is necessary if China is to sustain its high growth rates. The latest volume in the successful...

SMEs are the backbone of the European economy, but in regional and local labour market monitoring approaches their specificities are not yet well considered. As SMEs have to compete with larger companies for human resources, they develop creative strategies for recruiting and retaining...

This book examines two major social changes experienced by European cities in the last two decades: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. The link between both has been extensively discussed throughout a variety of theoretical approaches and in numerous descriptive...