Recent events have required labor economists to rethink their approach toward the markets and this book aims to bring this rethinking to the forefront. The global economic crisis of 2008-2009, a rapidly changing demographic division, increasing youth unemployment rates (fuelling movements in...

This book provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the labour market and policy in the UK, with focus on the 2008 financial crisis, the ensuing recession, and its aftermath.

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...

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Labor Reform in Latin America during the 1990s -- PART I: Public and Private Sector Labor Markets in Brazil -- 2 Improving Public Sector Efficiency in Brazil -- 3 Assessing the Impact of...

This text provides an analysis of rural employment dynamics in European Union member states and is the result of the RUREMPLO (Agriculture and employment in the rural regions of the EU'') project, supported by an EU research programme

This book discusses the key elements of labour market reform, contrasting a country where reforms have been successfully carried through, Australia, with one where reforms have been less successful, Japan. The book demonstrates what the key elements of labour market reform are, and explores the...

This book explores the key role that place and location play in the operation of the labour market at a time when local context is becoming an integral part of the design and implementation of labour market policies

This book focuses on how the state has become entangled in the processes through which workers have been organized, reorganized and disorganized as social and political actors in different historical periods

Intro -- In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Taiwan's Great Transformation -- 2. From Sunrise to Sunset -- 3. The Waning of a Hard Work Ethic -- 4. The Meaning of Work -- 5. Between Filial Daughter and Loyal Sister -- 6. Guests from the...