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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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- 978-3-031-11272-0
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies
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- IX, 214
Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World
This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy. This book draws on more than 260 life hi…
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- 978-3-031-06776-1
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- Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
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- XXVII, 377
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
Preterm babies, fetal patients, and childbearing choices
The United States has one of the highest rates of premature birth of any industrialized nation: 11.5%, nearly twice the rate of many European countries. In this book, John Lantos and Diane Lauderdale examine why the rate of preterm birth in the United States remains high--even though more women have access to prenatal care now than three decades ago. They also analyze a puzzling paradox: why, e…
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- 9780262330800
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- 1 online resource (x, 215 pages).
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The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes
Christopher Flinn presents an introduction to a search & bargaining model that can be used to assess the welfare effects of minimum wage changes & to determine an 'optimal' minimum wage."The development of the model and the econometric theory underlying its estimation are carefully presented so as to enable readers unfamiliar with the econometrics of point process models and dynamic optimizatio…
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- 9780262289399
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- 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) :illustrations
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Offshoring of American jobs: What response from U.S. economic policy?
Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the "offshoring" of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258579
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 141 pages) :illustrations.
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Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 1990 to 2009
A study of the labor market integration of highly skilled Soviet immigrants to Israel that formulates dynamic models of job search and human capital investment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305211
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) :illustrations
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Distributed Work
Multidisciplinary research on dynamics, problems, and potential of distributed work.
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- 9780262256353
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Data and democracy at work :advanced information technologies, labor law, and…
"An exploration of how labor law has protected companies' rights to surveil their employees and limit worker power, and how it might be reformed"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373357
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- 1 online resource
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Robot-proof :higher education in the age of artificial intelligence
"How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover--filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot. Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces, advise oncologists. In the past, automation was considered a…
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- 9780262344319
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 187 pages)
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