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  • Labor’s Share of Income

    Another Key to Understand China’s Income Inequality

    by Minghai Zhou ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book analyzes the decrease in labor share in China, which is a ratio of national income distribution to capital at three different levels (macro, meso, and micro) and from three different perspectives (growth, transition and opening up). The worsening income distribution has been a key issue for both Chinese and global economies in recent decades. The book shows that the decrease in labor ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • The Public Wealth of Nations

    How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth

    by Dag Detter, Stefan Fölster ...
    We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We have been arguing about the wrong thing while sitting on a goldmine of assets.Don’t worry about who owns those assets, worry about whether they are managed effectively.Why does this matter? Because despite the Thatcher/ Reagan economic revolution, the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Tomorrow

    by Cyril Dion ...
    Translated by Lisa Davidson ...
    What if highlighting solutions and telling positive stories was the best way to solve the ecological, economic, and social problems our countries are grappling with? In 2012, Cyril Dion learned about a study carried out by twenty-two scientists from around the world that forecasts the extinction of multiple forms of life, and possibly a large part of humanity, by the year 2100. This news barely ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised

    Street Vendors in the Urban Economy

    by Sharit K. Bhowmik, Debdulal Saha ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is the product of a study conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ministry of Urban Housing and Poverty Alleviation (MoHUPA). Its objective is to highlight some of the problems faced by street vendors in conducting their daily business and to examine how financial institutions, especially those in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Inequality, Polarization and Conflict

    An Analytical Study

    by Satya R. Chakravarty ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This monograph initially offers a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of alternative notions of income polarization and related issues. It then goes on to analyze social polarization, ordinal polarization, and the relations between inequality polarization, fractionalization and likelihood of conflicts. Axiomatic approaches to the measurement of polarization from different ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • International Trade, Wage Inequality and the Developing Economy

    A General Equilibrium Approach

    by Sugata Marjit, Rajat Acharyya ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed countries. A unique feature of this work is that it tries to explain the possibility of rising inequality ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Urban Labor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Philippe De Vreyer, Francois Roubaud ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Although labor is usually the unique asset upon which poor people can make a living, little is known about the functioning of labor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this volume is to contribute to the building of knowledge in this area. In this book, the authors use a unique set of identical and simultaneous labor force surveys conducted in seven capitals of Western Africa, as well as ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Intergenerational Mobility

    A Study of Social Classes in India

    by Rajarshi Majumder ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Discrimination and exclusion in the process of capability formation and the labor market transcend the boundaries of the current generation and spill over to successive generations as well. Though a plethora of work has been done at the international level, the area has not been the focus of Indian economic research despite social exclusion and disparity having been quite substantial in India, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Basic Income in Japan

    Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State

    Edited by Y. Vanderborght, T. Yamamori ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program in the context of the country's changing welfare state. Vanderborght and Yamamori bring together over a dozen contributors to provide a general overview of the scholarly debate on universal and unconditional basic income, including a foreword by Ronald ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Technological Change and Skill Development in Arab Gulf Countries

    by Samia Mohamed Nour ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book discusses skill formation, upskilling of workers, and their interaction with technological change in Gulf countries. Heavy dependence on oil, the 'Dutch Disease', and the high incidence of unskilled foreign workers have caused serious structural imbalances in the labour market in the Gulf. The author shows that success of economic development strategies to address such imbalances are all ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Competition in the Promised Land

    Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets

    by Leah Platt Boustan ...
    Series series National Bureau of Economic Research Publications
    From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space in receiving areas.Traditionally, the Great Black Migration has been lauded as a path to general ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Open Incubator Model

    Entrepreneurship, Open Innovation, and Economic Development in the Periphery

    by Ilan Bijaoui ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The Open Incubator Model analyzes the different support policies needed in big cities, rural areas and country borders for entrepreneurs in developed and developing countries to generate cooperation and improve the business models of local SMEs. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD