How can today's workforce keep pace with an increasingly competitive global economy? As new technologies rapidly transform the workplace, employee requirements are changing and workers must adapt to different working conditions. This volume compares new evidence on the returns from worker...

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World represents the second stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security and labor. In the first volume, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise revealed enormous disincentives to continued work at older ages...

In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away, and today the gap is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in...

Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. European...

The Law and Practice of Restructuring in the UK and US is a practical guide to the restructuring of corporate debt and associated restructuring issues such as employees and pensions, from the perspective of both UK and New York law, the dominant systems of law in the world commercial and...

International auditing of publicly owned corporations is governed largely by either U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) auditing standards or International Standards on Auditing (ISA) established by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). In some respects, the U.S....

Das Versicherungswesen ist in allen Ländern der Welt unterschiedlich ausgeprägt, selbst wenn die Risiken bei den Wirtschaftssubjekten zum Teil gleich oder sogar identisch sind. Dieses Phänomen wird als nationale Versicherungskultur verstanden. Eine nationale Versicherungskultur ist durch eine...