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Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia
While migration has become a vital issue worldwide, mainstream literature on migrants’ legal adaptation and integration has focused on cases in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. This book takes up the case of Russia—the third largest …
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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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The Youth Experience Gap Explaining National Differences in the School-to-Wo…
The education to work transition of young people is key to a successful work-life and to fight youth unemployment. The book provides an impressive outline of the facts and convincing insights of the potential causes. This offers a large and broader audience help to adjust properly to achieve a better life.” Klaus F. Zimmermann, IZA, Bonn, Germany This work points to the youth experience g…
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The Value of Wellness in the Workplace A Perspective of the Employee-Organis…
This book examines the links between employee-organisation relationships, work wellness and the impact thereof on the labour market from a South African perspective. By employing this focus, the book explains the role of the employment relationship and the psychological contract in improving work wellness. To do so, it reviews the establishment and management of contracts in the context of labo…
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- 978-981-287-402-3
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Immigration and Housing Rents: Evidence from German Reunification
This work exploits the natural experiment provided by the unexpected disintegration of socialist East Germany to study the impact of the mass immigration of East Germans on housing rents in West German metropolitan areas. Using a spatial correlation approach, annual district-level migration data for 1991 and 1992 and unique rental price indicators from Germany’s major regional property market…
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The Making of an African Working Class : Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest …
It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker identity, the book seeks to analyse the cultural, legal, ideological and experiential dimensions o…
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The Future of Work in Information Society
This book investigates the question as to whether technological developments will ultimately mean the end of work and, if so, what the consequences will be. The author addresses this question from the perspective of a technologist well versed in econometrics and game theory, and argues that it is not technology alone that could lead to the end of work, but its utilization by the capitalist syst…
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics SpringerBriefs in Economics
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Perceived Exertion Laboratory Manual, From Standard Practice to Contemporary …
Buku ini, berjudul Pengerahan Tenaga Manual yang Dirasakan di Laboratorium, Dari Praktik Standar hingga Aplikasi Kontemporer, berfungsi sebagai angsuran ketiga dari karya Robert Robertson. Itu ditulis bersama dengan dua mahasiswa doktoralnya, Luke Haile dan Michael Gallagher. Saat buku ini mulai diterbitkan, kita mendekati tahun ke-50 penelitian pengerahan tenaga yang dirasakan di Amerika Serik…
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- 978-1-4939-1917-8
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Agent-Based Modelling of Social Networks in Labour–Education Market System
This book covers the modelling of human behaviour in the education and labour markets, which due to their interdependency are viewed as one system. Important factors influencing the decision-making of individuals and firms in this system are discussed. The role of social environment and networks is stressed. The approach of agent-based modelling is presented and compared with standard economic …
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- SpringerBriefs in Complexity
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The Dynamics of Opportunity in America
The goal of Educational Testing Service’s Opportunity in America initiative is to explore these powerful dynamics and to describe and convey them in a way that advances the national conversation about why we must take action – and how best to do so. This volume contains 14 chapters, including an epilogue, written by leaders from a range of fields including education, economics, demography, …
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