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Labor Economics
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George J Borjas
George Borjas' well-received text blends coverage of traditional topics with modern theory and developments into a superb "Labor Economics" book. The Fourth Edition builds on the features and concepts that made the first three editions successful, updating and adding new content to keep the text on the cusp of recent events in the "Labor Economics ...
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The New American Workplace
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James O'Toole, Edward E Lawler, III, Patrick Cullen (Read by)
Thirty years ago, the bestselling "letter to the government" "Work in America" sounded an alarm about worker dissatisfaction and the effects on the nation as a whole. Now, this groundbreaking work illuminates the new critical issues--from worker demands to the new ethical rules to the revolution in culture at work.
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Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs
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Ron Hira, PH.D., P.E., Anil Hira, PH.D.
Still one of the hottest, most controversial topics in the news is the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries. Outsourced jobs have extended well beyond the manufacturing sector to include white-collar professionals, particularly in information technology, financial services, and customer service. "Outsourcing America" reveals just how ...
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From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace
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Katherine Van Wezel Stone
From Widgits to Digits is about the changing nature of the employment relationship and its implications for labor and employment law. For most of the twentieth century, employers fostered long-term employment relationships through the use of implicit promises of job security, well-defined hierarchical job ladders, and longevity-based wage and ...
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Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy
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Kim Moody
This is a comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide. It surveys both sides of the picket lines, and provides an assessment of multinational managements' strategies to downsize, introduce flexible production and compel workers to accept less pay for more work. The book emphasizes the need, in the face of these changes, for ...
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Jobshift: How to Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs
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William Bridges, Ph.D.
What is disappearing today is not just a certain number of jobs, or jobs in certain industries, or jobs in some parts of the UK - or even jobs in the West as a whole. What is disappearing is the very thing itself: the job. In fact, many organizations are today well along the path towards being "de-jobbed". People will have to learn new ways to ...
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Job Creation and Destruction
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Dr. Steven J Davis, Scott Schuh, John C Haltiwanger
The culmination of an ongoing research programme at the Center For Econmonic Studies, this text focuses on the US manufacturing sector from 1972 to 1988 and develops a statistical portrait of the microeconomic adjustments to the many economic events that affect businesses and workers. The book uses a plant-level data source, the Longitudinal ...
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Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy
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Vicki Smith
The 1990s were years of turmoil and transformation in American work experiences and employment relationships. Trends including the growth of contingent labor, the erosion of the stable employment contract, the restructuring of jobs and companies, and the emergence of opportunity-enhancing employee participation programs reconfigured occupations, ...
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Globalization: The Irrational Fear That Someone in China Will Take Your Job
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Bruce C N Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Ph.D.
In "Globalization", authors Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn cut through the myths surrounding globalization and look more closely at its real impact, presenting a more accurate picture of the present status of globalization and its future consequences. Page by page, they uncover the real facts about globalization and answer the most important ...
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The 2010 Meltdown: Solving the Impending Jobs Crisis
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Edward E Gordon
This is an indictment of current management and education practices that are creating a shortage of skilled labour. The march of technological development and globalisation continues to put pressure on all national economies, bringing opportunity for some and marginalisation for others. Nations will need to confront two coming economic shocks: a ...
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Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century
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Richard B Freeman (Editor), Joni Hersch (Editor), Lawrence Mishel (Editor)
"Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century" provides the first indepth assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to the decline of private sector unions. This important volume provides case studies of new labor market institutions and new directions for existing institutions. While non-union ...
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Big Book of Jobs
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McGraw-Hill
Comprehensive, up-to-the minute information on top jobs and job search techniques from the United States Department of Labor With up-to-the-minute data from the U.S. Department of Labor, plus cutting-edge career strategies from McGraw-Hill, "The Big Book of Jobs" saves you precious time by offering everything you need for job hunting in a single ...
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The Organisation of Employment: An International Perspective
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Jill Rubery, Damian Grimshaw
"The Organisation of Employment" explores the diversity in the organization of employment among advanced industrial societies. In particular, it focuses on the implications of distinctive employment systems for international competitiveness, organizational performance and social divisions and considers the impact of globalization on the ...
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Job Shift
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William Bridges, Ph.D.
The source of Fortune s widely discussed cover story The End of the Job, Job Shift breaks open our traditional work world. For all employees, executives, and entrepreneurs it reveals the new employment realities and uncovers new opportunities. Read Job Shift to understand how to generate secure work for yourself next yearand how well think about ...
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Labour market economics : theory, evidence and policy in Canada
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Morley Gunderson
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Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization
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Joshua L Rosenbloom
The dynamic character of American industrialization produced imbalances between the supply of and demand for labor across cities and regions. This book describes how employers and job-seekers responded to these imbalances to create networks of labor market communication and assistance capable of mobilizing the massive redistribution of population ...
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Beyond College for All: Career Paths for the Forgotten Half
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James E Rosenbaum
"Winner of the Willard Waller Award for Distinguished Scholarship, American Sociological Association
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Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market
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Frederic L Pryor, David L Schaffer
Presenting a radically different view of the operations of the labor market, Professors Pryor and Schaffer explain the growing inequality in wages over the last quarter century and how those with the least education are being squeezed out of the labor market. Why have wages in those jobs requiring extra-high cognitive skills risen while all other ...
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Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market
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Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, Richard Jackman
This book is concerned with why unemployment is so high and why it fluctuates so wildly. It shows how unemployment affects inflation, and discusses whether full employment can ever be combined with price stability. It asks why some groups have higher unemployment rates than others. The book thus surveys in a clear, textbook fashion the main ...
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Employment Relationships: New Models of White-Collar Work
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Peter Cappelli (Editor)
The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a quite dramatic shift in the nature of white collar employment, from lifetime tenure, often in a very hierarchical work structure, to a new model defined by flatter organizations, job insecurity, shorter tenures, declining attachment between employer and employee, and contingent work. Managing ...
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Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do about It
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Paul Osterman
We live in an age of economic paradox. The dynamism of America's economy is astounding - the country's industries are the most productive in the world and spin off new products and ideas at a bewildering pace. Yet Americans feel deeply uneasy about their economic future. The reason, Paul Osterman explains, is that our recent prosperity is built on ...
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Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market
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Paul Osterman, Thomas A Kochan, Richard M Locke
The American labour market faces many deep-rooted problems, including persistence of a large low-wage sector, worsening inequality in earnings, employees' lack of voice in the workplace, and the need of employers to maximize flexibility if they are to survive in an increasingly competitive market. The impetus for this book is the absence of a ...
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Best Career and Education Web Sites: A Quick Guide to Online Job Search
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Anne Wolfinger
This guide provides listings and reviews of the 350 very best sites on the Internet for learning about careers, college, training, and job search. It includes ad dresses for accessing free job search resources in all 50 states. This helpful guide provides vital help for anyone looking for a job; choosing a career; selecting a college, major, or ...
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Top 100 Computer and Technical Careers: Your Complete Guidebook to Major Jobs in Many Fields at All Training Levels
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Michael Farr
Jobs requiring computer and technical skills continue to grow. Explore 100 careers focused on computers and other technologies, assess which ones match your skills, and get the job you want quickly with this authoritative resource. In one time-saving volume, job seekers and students find everything they need to research careers; learn about pay, ...
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The Big Book of Jobs
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VGM Career Books, McGraw-Hill (Creator)
Job seekers find the answers they need for a successful job search in this all-encompassing volume. Here's an unbeatable combination: up-to-date data from the U.S. Department of Labor, plus cutting-edge career strategies from VGM. "The Big Book of Jobs" lets job seekers save precious time by offering everything they need in a single volume. The ...
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