Labour Economics Books

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1. The Dynamics of Asian Labour Markets: Balancing Control and Flexibility

   Edited by John Benson, Ying Zhu

   Asia has undergone rapid economic transformation over the past two decades. While this economic growth has been relentless, the events surrounding the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis and the resulting surge in unemployment have highlighted the vulnerability of national systems with an approach to...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-55111-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment

   By Penelope Mathew

   This book examines the extent to which the right to work for refugees and asylum-seekers is protected by international human rights law. Work is central to durable solutions for refugees – whether the solution is repatriation to the country of origin, local integration in a country of first asylum...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58079-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Globalization, Outsourcing and Labour Development in ASEAN

   By Shandre Thangavelu, Aekapol Chongvilaivan

   Due to technical advances in production and communication technology, outsourcing – contracting out production of intermediate materials and services – has affected the economic growth of the ASEAN region. This new book fills an important gap in the literature looking at the impact outsourcing has...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-56745-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence

   By Andy Bielenberg, Raymond Ryan

   The recent dramatic decline in the economic fortunes of the Republic of Ireland have been all the more painful, because it followed the most rapid period of economic development ever witnessed in Irish economic history, when growth rates since the early-1990s surpassed those in the rest of Western...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-56694-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Economics and Diversity

   By Carlo D'Ippoliti

   Much economic literature still assumes that economic behaviour can be explained by means of a same process applying to all individuals, at most exhibiting quantitative differences in the extent of certain individual properties. In this book, Carlo D'Ippoliti takes issue with the concept of "...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60027-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. The Division of Labour in Economics: A History

   By Guang-Zhen Sun

   This book painstakingly identifies and elaborates on the tradition in economic analysis of the division of labor by examining the studies on this topic that have emerged over the past two and a half millennia, especially in about two and a quarter centuries since Adam Smith (1776). Studies of the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-44907-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Korean Labour Market after the 1997 Economic Crisis

   Edited by Joonmo Cho, Richard B. Freeman, Jaeho Keum, Sunwoong Kim

   The Asian economic crisis of 1997-99 showed that the model of growth through export manufactures adopted by Korea could not sustain the country to the next rung of economic development; even after the crisis the labour market remained under considerable stress. This new book looks at the major...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-59209-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Employment, Inequality and Globalization: A Continuous Concern

   By Rolph van der Hoeven

   The nature of globalization and the fallout from the international financial crisis have brought profound changes to societies and economies around the world. This book documents that, over the last two decades, the growth of nonstandard and informal employment has led to greater inequalities. This...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-59701-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

   Edited by Gareth Austin, Kaoru Sugihara

   This volume calls for a major rethinking of our understanding of industrialization for global history, by bringing the East Asian experience of ‘labour-intensive’ industrialization into focus and, thereby, reinterpreting both the western experience of ‘capital-intensive’ industrialization and the...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-45552-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Globalization, Labour Markets and Inequality in India

    By Dipak Mazumdar, Sandip Sarkar

    India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, sometime in the mid-eighties and going on into the nineties. While the increased exposure to world markets (‘globalization’) and relaxation of domestic controls has undoubtedly given a spurt to the GDP growth rate,...

    December 2010 | 978-0-415-54485-6 | Paperback (Routledge)