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Routledge Library Editions: Labour Economics

Routledge Library Editions: Labour Economics

1st Edition

By Various
November 27, 2018

The 13 volumes in this set, originally published between 1920 and 1991, draw together research by leading academics in the area of labour economics and provides a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes examine housing and labour markets, labour supply, and labour migration. This ...

The Human Motor Or the Scientific Foundations of Labour and Industry

The Human Motor: Or the Scientific Foundations of Labour and Industry

1st Edition

By Jules Amar
December 01, 2020

First published in 1920. This study examines the science of industrial work and the advances in its application to the economic life of the community. The author commences this volume with a brief explanation of the general principles of Theoretical Mechanics which have been applied in the study of...

Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

1st Edition

By Bruce C. N. Greenwald
August 01, 2020

First published in 1979. This thesis describes the theoretical impact on labour markets of a process of adverse selection similar to that described in outline by George Arthur Akerlof. It concerns the information conveyed to potential employers by the fact that any new worker, except for one just ...

Developments in Labour Market Analysis

Developments in Labour Market Analysis

1st Edition

By Caroline Joll, Chris McKenna, Robert McNabb, John Shorey
August 01, 2020

First published in 1983. This text is designed to enable intermediate and advanced students to attain familiarity with the theoretical concepts used in labour market analysis, and to apply them fruitfully to the economic problem of labour markets. Each chapter of Section I deals with a different ...

Flexibility, Mobility and the Labour Market

Flexibility, Mobility and the Labour Market

1st Edition

By George S. Callaghan
August 01, 2020

First published in 1997. Politicians of all shades argue that the labour market should be more flexible and workers more mobile. But what does this mean in reality? How flexible and mobile are workers likely to be? Is there an ideological base to the language of flexibility? These are some of the ...

Housing and Labour Markets Building the Connections

Housing and Labour Markets: Building the Connections

1st Edition

Edited By John Allen, Chris Hamnett
August 01, 2020

First published in 1991. The connection between housing and work is one of the most discussed yet least understood aspects of modern society. Housing and Labour Markets explores the different ways in which housing and labour are linked and examines their central significance in many of the key ...

International Labour Statistics A Handbook, Guide, and Recent Trends

International Labour Statistics: A Handbook, Guide, and Recent Trends

1st Edition

By R. Bean
August 01, 2020

First published in 1989. The oil crises of the 1970s and increasing international competitive pressures had profoundly changed the structure and performance of labour. Analysis of labour markets, and especially international comparisons, can be difficult, given the differences between definitions, ...

Labour Migration The Internal Geographical Mobility of Labour in the Developed World

Labour Migration: The Internal Geographical Mobility of Labour in the Developed World

1st Edition

Edited By James H. Johnson, John Salt
August 01, 2020

First published in 1990. This edited work brings together a collection of studies, by an international team of contributors, on inter-urban migration, which is largely dominated by labour migration. The structure of the book reflects the interaction of the supply and demand of labour and the ...

Labour Problems of Technological Change

Labour Problems of Technological Change

1st Edition

By L. C. Hunter, G. L. Reid, D. Boddy
August 01, 2020

First published in 1970. This book is concerned with the examination and assessment of the impact of changes in technology on companies in three selected industries: printing, steel and chemicals. Its main focus is on the employment and associated labour market effects of technological change; but ...

Patterns of Labour Work and Social Change in the Pottery Industry

Patterns of Labour: Work and Social Change in the Pottery Industry

1st Edition

By Richard Whipp
August 01, 2020

First published in 1990. Patterns of Labour explores the interaction between home, paid work, and the individual. It looks at how the social relations of work both shape and are shaped by the context in which they occur. In a detailed examination of the pottery industries of Britain and America ...

Recent Advances in Labour Economics

Recent Advances in Labour Economics

1st Edition

Edited By Gillian Hutchinson, John Treble
August 01, 2020

First published in 1984. This book presents a great deal of research findings, new advances in theory and comprehensive overviews of key aspects of labour economics. It examines the latest trends in the field and assesses the impact of recent policies together with the likely impact of proposed ...

Taxation and Labour Supply

Taxation and Labour Supply

1st Edition

Edited By C. V. Brown
August 01, 2020

First published in 1981. This book reports on a decade of research into the effects of taxation on the supply of labour. In addition to their work in making labour supply estimates, the study explores a number of the ways labour supply estimates can be used. When budget constraints are non-linear ...

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