This book describes the global competition to attract talents. It focuses in particular on two phenomena: the brain gain and brain drain associated with high-skilled migration.
This new edition also features engaging case studies that illustrate key aspects of imperfect labor markets.
Part one addresses career paths, schooling choice, and the gender wage gap. Part two addresses unexplored dimensions of discrimination with particular attention to physical appearance, obesity, religion, and sexual orientation.
Written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the book carefully defines and measures these institutions to accurately characterize their effects, and discusses how these institutions are today being changed by ...
... and Kevin J. Murphy Longer-term Consequences of the Great Recession on the Lives of Europeans Edited by Agar Brugiavini and Guglielmo Weber The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income Edited by Stephen P. Jenkins, ...
In this book, first-rate international scholars in the field explore the role that unions are likely to play in the changed economic environment of the new century.
The evaluation rules prescribed by these guidelines were considered both theoretically sound and operationally significant [Little and Scott, 1976]. International organizations, such as the World Bank, and agencies operating for ...
This new edition also features engaging case studies that illustrate key aspects of imperfect labor markets.
Written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the book carefully defines and measures these institutions to accurately characterize their effects, and discusses how these institutions are today being changed by ...
Covering employment and wage gender gaps, participation of women, fertility, and the welfare of children, this insightful volume considers the trend towards greater particiption of women in labor markets.
This paper evaluates European structural reforms over the last 20 years, in light of economic theory predictions about interactions between labor and product market reforms. Reforms in labor markets occur...
This volume compares US and European CEOs to trace the evolution of executive compensation, its controversies and its resulting regulations.