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  • Central and East European Migrants' Contributions to Social Protection

    by S. Maatsch ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-communist countries. This book challenges anti-immigration discourses to show that given the high percentage of skilled immigrants, it is the sending rather than the receiving countries who lose out. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Living Wages Around the World

    Manual for Measurement

    by Richard Anker, Martha Anker ...
    This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in different countries and how much workers need to earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable living wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages, even in countries with limited secondary data. ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Birdcage

    How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West

    by Heleen Mees ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book vividly describes how China’s rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income everywhere, ultimately resulting in the global financial crisis. Under Deng Xiaoping’s policy of ‘reform and opening up’ in the 1980s, China quickly became the world’s factory floor...but powerful political leaders envisioned a world in which the market economy would be trapped within ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization

    An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration

    by Paul Caruana Galizia ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean. This work provides answers to important questions, such as: If the Mediterranean labor market really was integrated, then why did globalization affect the Western and Eastern Mediterranean so ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Corporation

    A Critical, Multi-Disciplinary Handbook

    Edited by Grietje Baars, Andre Spicer ...
    The corporation has become an increasingly dominant force in contemporary society. However, comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the concept of the corporation is often restricted, or limited to one disciplinary approach. This handbook brings together the cutting-edge scholarship, expertise and insight of leading scholars in a wide range of disciplines, notably management studies, law, history, ... Read more

    $137.79 USD

  • Unequal Ageing in Europe

    Women's Independence and Pensions

    by G. Betti, F. Bettio, T. Georgiadis, P. Tinios ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    While much is known about the situation in the labour market in the form of gender pay and earnings gaps, rather little is understood about their sequel in old age the gender pension gap. Entering the world of pensions may well signal a step backwards as far as women's independence is concerned, particularly in countries where women have earned economic independence in employment and are now being ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Economics of International Immigration

    Environment, Unemployment, the Wage Gap, and Economic Welfare

    by Kenji Kondoh ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan. Developed here is the classic trade model by Heckscher–Ohlin–Samuelson, McDougall’s basic model of the international movement factor, the urban–rural migration model by Harris–Todaro, and ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Growing Income Inequalities

    Economic Analyses

    Edited by J. Hellier, N. Chusseau ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing issue for all states in the globalized world economy. Comparing the experiences of more and less developed economies, chapters analyse the underlying causes and key social changes that accompany income inequality. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Coping with Demographic Change in the Alpine Regions

    Actions and Strategies for Spatial and Regional Development

    Edited by Thomas Bausch, Madeleine Koch, Alexander Veser ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Europe’s population is ageing and decreasing. Demographic change is making not only regional and territorial adaptation necessary, but also new region-specific spatial planning and regional development. This publication focusses on demographic change and its implications for the economy and social systems in the Alpine areas, which differ widely from their surrounding metropolitan areas. It ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Spanish Regional Unemployment

    Disentangling the Sources of Hysteresis

    by Diego Romero-Ávila, Alejandro García-Cintado, Carlos Usabiaga ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This work investigates the time series properties of the unemployment rate of the Spanish regions over the period 1976-2011. For that purpose, the authors employ the PANIC procedures of Bai and Ng (2004), which allows to decompose the observed unemployment rate series into common factor and idiosyncratic components. This enables the authors to identify the exact source behind the hysteretic ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • City Making and Global Labor Regimes

    Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry

    by Antonella Ceccagno ...
    This book investigates the success story of the fast fashion industry—mainly owned by Chinese migrants—in Prato, Italy. It outlines how Prato has become the center of a value chain stretching from suppliers in China and Turkey all the way to buyers in Europe. Despite this, a policy attacking Chinese entrepreneurship has been devised and implemented in Prato. This volume analyzes said policy ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Geographical Labor Market Imbalances

    Recent Explanations and Cures

    Edited by Chiara Mussida, Francesco Pastore ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time. Unemployment divergence and unemployment club convergence have been touched on in a large number of works and have recently also been studied using spatial econometric analysis. In ... Read more

    $89.09 USD