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Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes: A Life Course perspective
This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift is generating real processes of exclusion for important sectors of the population. By providing strong…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-11272-0
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies
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- IX, 214
Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand
Through an inter-subjective lens, this open access book investigates the initial labour market integration experiences of these migrants, refugees or asylum seekers, who are characterised by different biographies and migration/asylum trajectories. The book gives voice to the migrants and seeks to highlight their own experiences and understandings of the labour market integration process, in the…
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- 978-3-031-14009-9
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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- XIII, 231
Economy in Society: Essays in Honor of Michael J. Piore
Prominent economists discuss internal labor markets, the dynamics of immigration, labor market regulation, and other key topics in the work of Michael J. Piore. In Economy in Society, five prominent social scientists honor Michael J. Piore in original essays that explore key topics in Piore's work and make significant independent contributions in their own right. Piore is distinctive for his or…
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- 0262305372
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- 1 online resource (167 pages) :illustrations
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The Science and Technology Labor Force
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the demand for PhDs on the labor markets of twelve countries. The authors analyze the role of PhDs in the creation of innovation in a knowledge-based economy and examine economic issues such as the return on investment for the education and training of doctoral graduates. To provide a more comprehensive picture of the employment patterns, career paths …
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- 978-3-319-27210-8
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The Science and Technology Labor Force the Value of Doctorate Holders and D…
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the demand for PhDs on the labor markets of twelve countries. The authors analyze the role of PhDs in the creation of innovation in a knowledge-based economy and examine economic issues such as the return on investment for the education and training of doctoral graduates. To provide a more comprehensive picture of the employment patterns, career paths …
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- 978-3-319-27210-8
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The Entrepreneurial Society
This open access book is an outcome of the EU’s Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal analysis, and combining methods and data across disciplines, the authors provide policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with valuable new tools for assessing and improving Europe’s entrepreneurial e…
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-61007-7
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- Business Management
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- -
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- 650.1
Industrial and Labor Economics Issues in Developing and Transition Countries
This book is an attempt to capture and analyze several idiosyncratic features of industry and labor in the developing world. Available books and graduate-level texts in labor economics largely discuss industrial and labor market situations prevalent in developed countries, where well-defined institutional arrangements and regulations create a very different scope of analysis. The patterns of ch…
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- 978-3-319-12840-5
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- IX, 314
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- 330 KAR i
The Economics of Professional Road Cycling
Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed. This book is the first volume to bring together a majority of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional road cycling. Each chapter treats a particular economic aspect of the sport, from organizational structure to marketing, labor, game theory,…
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- 978-3-319-22312-4
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- X, 341,
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- Sports Economics, Management and Policy
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The Economics of Multitasking
People regularly multitask, though we have been warned about the mental costs of "task-switching" in psychology and the popular press. Meanwhile, economists have remained silent on the possible economic ramifications – both good and bad – of producers and/or consumers doing more than one thing at once. This first-of-its-kind volume explores the frequency, patterns, and economic implications…
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- 978-1-137-38144-6
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- XV, 216
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Trade Credit and Temporary Employment How Companies Respond to Capital and L…
This book presents an empirical investigation into the relationship between companies' short-term response to capital and labor market frictions and performance. Two different kinds of performance measures are considered, namely innovation performance and firm performance. The author focuses on two major topics: first, on the relation between innovation performance and the use of trade credit. …
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- 978-3-319-29850-4
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