In developing countries, labour markets play a central role indetermining economic and social progress since employmentstatus is a key determinant to exiting poverty and promotinginclusion. While governments are increasingly prioritizingpolicies which promote decent work, a better...

The economic crisis of 2007/2008 has prompted much debate as to what caused it and what remedies may be implemented in order to regain a healthy economy. This book addresses these issues through the lens of capitalism with a focus on labour economics, arguing that capitalism, and the employment...

Presenting a complete survey of labor economics from the search point of view, this is the first book to coordinate a vast and scattered literature, making an increasingly important and sophisticated area in modern applied economics readily accessible. Completely comprehensive, Empirical Labor...

What happens if an employer cuts wages by one cent? Much of labor economics is built on the assumption that all the workers will quit immediately. Here, Alan Manning mounts a systematic challenge to the standard model of perfect competition. Monopsony in Motion stands apart by analyzing labor...

Front Cover -- Inequality: Causes and Consequences -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Preface -- Inequality of Opportunity in Europe: Is There a Role for Institutions? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measuring Opportunity Inequality: A Simple Model -- 3. The Empirical...

This book presents the contributions to the first Wild@Ace conference. The acronym stands for “Workshop on Industrial and Labor Dynamics — The Agent-Based Computational Aproach”, and it has been the first event ever focusing on the very promising use of the agent-based simulation...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Revisiting Internal Labor Markets -- 2 Labor Migration and the Potential for Industrial Renewal -- 3 Toward a Third Industrial Divide? -- 4 A Second Regulatory Divide? Labor Inspection Regimes in Comparative Historical Perspective -- 5 Rethinking the...