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Changing environment, just transition and job creation
The world in which we currently live is characterised by a multiplicity of challenges that we must face with urgency if we want to avoid future catastrophes. Those challenges, because of the globalisation of systems, have also become global challenges, and need global responses. One of the most important of those challenges faced by the current global community remains the environmental crisis,…
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Chapter 4 Contracts via comics Migrant workers and Thai fishing vessel emplo…
Comic contracts are legally binding contracts presented as comics, where the parties to the contract are represented as characters and the contract terms are communicated mainly visually. This chapter examines a comic contract created in the context of the Thai fishing industry. The industry is dependent on Myanmar and Cambodian migrants for its viability, but it is also notorious for the abuse…
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Alone in a Crowd
The problems of pipefitting and pregnancy, carpentry and child care, truck driving and femininity-these peculiar parings characterize the lives of an often unsung group of women. They are women who have entered the traditionally male-dominated world of the trades. They are women whom we meet in Alone in a Crowd, as twenty-five women who are blue-collar workers tell us in their own words what it…
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Creating good jobs :an industry-based strategy
Experts discuss improving job quality in low-wage industries including retail, residential construction, hospitals and long-term healthcare, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking. Americans work harder and longer than our counterparts in other industrialized nations. Yet prosperity remains elusive to many. Workers in such low-wage industries as retail, restaurants, and home constru…
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Understanding inflation and the implications for monetary policy :a Phillips …
In 1958, economist A. W. Phillips published an article describing what he observed to be the inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment; subsequently, the “Phillips curve” became a central concept in macroeconomic analysis and policymaking. But today's Phillips curve is not the same as the original one from fifty years ago; the economy, our understanding of price setting behavi…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 502 pages) :illustrations
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Structural Unemployment in Western Europe: Reasons and Remedies
Examines the different patterns and long-term trends behind persistent unemployment across Western Europe in light of the developments in labour market theory. This work explains the emergence and persistence of unemployment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) :illustrations.
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Unemployment fluctuations and stabilization policies :a new Keynesian perspec…
A new approach for introducing unemployment into the New Keynesian framework. The past fifteen years have witnessed the rise of the New Keynesian model as a framework of reference for the analysis of fluctuations and stabilization policies. That framework, which combines the rigor and internal consistency of dynamic general equilibrium models with such typically Keynesian assumptions as mono…
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Assetization :turning things into assets in technoscientific capitalism
"This is a professional edited collection for the Inside Technology series looking at what the editors call assetization. They ask: what lies in the wake of commodification? How should we characterize and analyze technoscientific capitalism in the era of Uber and Airbnb, the business model sorcery of giants like Google and Genentech, rising immaterial and cognitive labor productivity represente…
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Social Concertation in Times of Austerity : European Integration and the Poli…
Why do governments still negotiate with trade unions and employers in the design of labour market and welfare reforms despite the steady decline of trade union membership almost everywhere in Europe? Social Concertation in Times of Austerity investigates the political underpinnings of social concertation in this new context with a focus on the regulation of labour mobility and unemployment prot…
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- Changing Welfare States
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The Legality of Public Pension Reforms in Times of Financial Crisis : The Cas…
The right to old-age pension benefits is enshrined in a litany of constitutional and international rights. The aim of chapter three is to explore the protection of this right by outlining the respective legal provisions that address the right to pension entitlements. The role of the Greek Constitution and wider international law in protecting this right becomes even more important in instances …
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