Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert shimer”
Skip side bar filters

  • Labor Markets and Business Cycles

    by Robert Shimer ...
    Series series CREI Lectures in Macroeconomics
    Labor Markets and Business Cycles integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes. Robert Shimer shows analytically and quantitatively that rigid wages are important for explaining the volatile behavior of the unemployment rate in business cycles.The book focuses on the labor wedge that arises when the marginal rate of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Human Capital

    A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination, marriage, family relations, and education. Becker's research on human capital was ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Economy of Ireland

    National and Sectoral Policy Issues

    Edited by John W. O'Hagan, Carol Newman ...
    An essential book for students of economics as well as economists and policymakers. The twelfth edition of this enduring and popular book surveys all major changes in the Irish economy in the past fifteen years, with particular emphasis on the last five years. In this new edition, the authors examine: - The broad historical context to a study of the Irish economy. - Ireland's hard landing, ... Read more

    $29.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sociology, Work and Organisation

    Seventh Edition

    by Tony Watson ...
    The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations, management and employment and how they are changing in the twenty-first century.Intellectual and accessible, it is unrivalled in the breadth of its coverage and its authoritative ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Chickenizing Farms and Food

    How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers

    by Ellen K. Silbergeld ...
    A frightening look at the meat industry’s cost to public health, worker safety, and the future of medicine—as well as the potential for agricultural reform.Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Statutory Regulation and Employment Relations

    The Impact of Statutory Trade Union Recognition

    by S. Moore, S. McKay, S. Veale ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    A comprehensive socio-legal evaluation of the 2000 statutory recognition procedure over ten years of its operation. Whilst exploring its implications for the so-called UK 'voluntarist' approach to regulating industrial relations, the authors argue that the effectiveness of the procedure was constrained by its design. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Citizen’s Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America

    From Cash Transfers to Rights

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population groups. In the context of widespread informal and precarious work, social insurance institutions could only provide limited coverage. In this context, progress toward a Citizen's Income policy in Latin America depends on the possibility of reappraising ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Methodological Reflections on Practice Oriented Theories

    Edited by Michael Jonas, Beate Littig, Angela Wroblewski ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents a comprehensive overview of methodological issues and empirical methods of practice-oriented research. It examines questions regarding the scope and boundaries of practice-oriented approaches and practice theory. It discusses the potential advantages and disadvantages of the diversity resulting from the use of these approaches, as well as method and methodology-related issues. ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Rural Labor Migration, Discrimination, and the New Dual Labor Market in China

    by Guifu Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book studies some important issues in China’s labor market, such as rural labor migration, employment and wage discrimination, the new dual labor market, and economic returns on schooling, using the newer and representative data and advanced estimation models. This approach has yielded many interesting results, including a solution to the dilemma of two ongoing crises since 2004: the rural ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Precarious Work

    Edited by Arne L. Kalleberg, Steven P. Vallas ...
    Series Book 31 - Research in the Sociology of Work
    This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.In the past quarter century, the nature of paid employment has undergone a dramatic change due to globalization, rapid ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Education, Work and Social Change

    Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain

    by R. Simmons, R. Thompson, L. Russell ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people, this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to provide a rich, detailed account of young people's experiences of participation and non-participation on the margins of education and employment, highlighting the policy implications of this research. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Honneth and Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition

    Work, Marginalisation and Integration

    by Bona Anna ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth’s recognition theory as its theoretical foundation. In so doing, it also reveals the sophistication and productivity of Honneth's recognition model for multiculturalism scholarship.Honneth and Everyday Intercultural (Mis ... Read more

    $98.09 USD