Employment & unemployment books

1306 books were found.

The Challenge of Youth Unemployment in Sri Lanka

The Challenge of Youth Unemployment in Sri Lanka

Author: Ramani Gunatlilaka ,  Markus Mayer
ISBN: 9780821381175
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Presenting results of original research as well reviewing and synthesizing existing studies, this title presents...  Read More >>

Strategic Competition, Dynamics, and the Role of the State: A New Perspective

Strategic Competition, Dynamics, and the Role of the...

Author: Jamee K. Moudud
ISBN: 9781845429232
Format: Hardback
$228.00

Jamee Moudud provides a new microfoundational explanation for the Harrodian long-run or warranted growth rate.  Read More >>

Woman: Acceptable Expoitation for Profit

Woman: Acceptable Expoitation for Profit

Author: Shreela Flather
ISBN: 9781849950022
Format: Hardback
$43.96

Highlights the wasted potential of women as a vital and untapped asset in the labour force of developing countries...  Read More >>

Expectations, Employment and Prices

Expectations, Employment and Prices

Author: Roger Farmer (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780195397901
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Expectations, Employment and Prices brings Keynesian economics into the 21st century by providing a new paradigm...  Read More >>

Losing Ground in the Employment Challenge: The Case of Paraguay

Losing Ground in the Employment Challenge: The Case...

Author: Albert Berry
ISBN: 9781412810869
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Most developing countries face significant and sometimes dramatic challenges in generating stable jobs that provide...  Read More >>

Labour Productivity, Investment in Human Capital and Youth Employment: Comparative Developments and Global Responses

Labour Productivity, Investment in Human Capital and...

Author: Roger Blanpain ,  W. Bromwich
ISBN: 9789041132499
Format: Paperback
$393.36

Unemployment levels are on the rise nearly everywhere, and the rate is particularly high among young people. If...  Read More >>

Egyptian Women Workers and Entrepreneurs: Maximizing Opportunities in the Economic Sphere

Egyptian Women Workers and Entrepreneurs: Maximizing...

Author: Sahar Nasr
ISBN: 9780821381908
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Intends to fill the significant research gap on women's entrepreneurship and labour force participation in Egypt,...  Read More >>

India's Employment Challenge: Creating Jobs, Helping Workers

India's Employment Challenge: Creating Jobs, Helping...

Author: World Bank
ISBN: 9780198063513
Format: Paperback
$158.27

This report assesses developments in the Indian labour market - both formal and informal - and identifies key challenges...  Read More >>

Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (most) Americans Won't Do

Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (most)...

Author: Gabriel Thompson
ISBN: 9781568584089
Format: Hardback
$65.87

An award-winning young investigative journalist goes undercover, living the life of an undocumented immigrant  Read More >>

Non-standard Employment under Globalization: Flexible Work and Social Security in the Newly Industrializing Countries

Non-standard Employment under Globalization: Flexible...

Author: K. Usami
ISBN: 9780230238480
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Expansion of non-standard employment under globalization is widely observed in all of the newly industrializing...  Read More >>

A Ticket to Work: Policies for the Young Unemployed in Britain and Germany

A Ticket to Work: Policies for the Young Unemployed...

Author: Bettina Kohlrausch
ISBN: 9783593388151
Format: Paperback
$102.96

Examines the differing approaches taken by Britain and Germany to assist young people with the difficult transition...  Read More >>

Changes in Japanese Employment Practices: Beyond the Japanese Model

Changes in Japanese Employment Practices: Beyond the...

Author: Arjan Keizer (University of Bradford, UK)
ISBN: 9780415447584
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Keizer examines changing employment practices in Japan, focusing on the position of the Japanese firm that is confronted...  Read More >>

Understanding the Social Economy: A Canadian Perspective

Understanding the Social Economy: A Canadian Perspective...

Author: Jack Quarter ,  Laurie Mook
ISBN: 9780802096456
Format: Paperback
$92.40

In Understanding the Social Economy, Quarter,Mook, and Armstrong integrate a wide array of organizations founded...  Read More >>

Understanding the Social Economy: A Canadian Perspective

Understanding the Social Economy: A Canadian Perspective...

Author: Jack Quarter ,  Laurie Mook
ISBN: 9780802096951
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In Understanding the Social Economy, Quarter,Mook, and Armstrong integrate a wide array of organizations founded...  Read More >>

Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920

Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence,...

Author: Lara Vapnek
ISBN: 9780252076619
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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Raising the Global Floor: Dismantling the Myth That We Can’t Afford Good Working Conditions for Everyone

Raising the Global Floor: Dismantling the Myth That...

Author: Jody Heymann, M.D. ,  Alison Earle
ISBN: 9780804768900
Format: Hardback
$56.95

Presents results from a study of working conditions from nations around the world. This book offers recommendations...  Read More >>

Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920

Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence,...

Author: Lara Vapnek
ISBN: 9780252034718
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Recasting the meaning of women's work in the early fight for gender equality  Read More >>

Putting Poor People to Work: How the Work-first Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor

Putting Poor People to Work: How the Work-first Idea...

Author: Kathleen M. Shaw ,  Sara Goldrick-Rab
ISBN: 9780871547767
Format: Paperback
$56.76

"Today, a college education is increasingly viewed as the gateway to the American Dream--a necessary prerequisite...  Read More >>

Economic Alternatives for Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction: Progressive Policy Recommendations for Developing Countries

Economic Alternatives for Growth, Employment and Poverty...

Author: T. McKinley ,  John Weeks
ISBN: 9780230220980
Format: Hardback
$277.20

This book is a collection of working papers, policy briefs and training modules, published by the International...  Read More >>

Job Success for Persons with Developmental Disabilities

Job Success for Persons with Developmental Disabilities...

Author: David Wiegan ,  Ron Rush
ISBN: 9781843109228
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In the USA alone, there are roughly three million individuals living with a developmental disability, but less than...  Read More >>

Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

Author: Leah F. Vosko (York University, Canada) ,  Martha MacDonald (Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415494540
Format: Paperback
$104.00

Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in...  Read More >>

Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

Author: Leah F. Vosko (York University, Canada) ,  Martha MacDonald (Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415492362
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in...  Read More >>

Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics

Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State: Unemployment with...

Author: T. Gold ,  W. Hurst
ISBN: 9780230613706
Format: Hardback
$237.60

In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on...  Read More >>

Employment Policies and Multilevel Governance

Employment Policies and Multilevel Governance

Author: Roger Blanpain ,  Brian Langille
ISBN: 9789041128669
Format: Paperback
$382.80

This collection of essays targets the phenomena of multilevel governance, both vertical and horizontal, showing,...  Read More >>

Is Informal Normal?: Towards More and Better Jobs in Developing Countries

Is Informal Normal?: Towards More and Better Jobs in...

Author: Johannes P. Jutting ,  Juan R. de Laiglesia
ISBN: 9789264059238
Format: Paperback
$53.95

Shoeshine workers in Cairo, street vendors in Calcutta, poorly paid public officials driving their taxis at night...  Read More >>

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