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The contributors then present individual analyses of the labor market situation in the five countries under study as well as two general studies of institutions regulating the labor market and flexibility within the labor market.

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Shows analytically and quantitatively that rigid wages are important for explaining the volatile behavior of the unemployment rate in business cycles. This book focuses on the labor wedge that arises when the marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure does not equal the marginal product of labor.

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This timely book provides a wide-ranging and insightful discussion of how labor market institutions and policies influence the mechanisms of economic integration and how economic integration inturn is likely to influence key features of labor markets.

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Many of the rules that govern labor markets in Latin America (and elsewhere) raise labor costs, create barriers to entry, and introduce rigidities in the employment structure.

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A management guide to labour productivity, detailing longstanding approaches to worker performance and the changes they have undergone, as well as management's responsibilities and industrial engineering functions, made applicable to manufacturing, processing and service organizations.

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Ideological and cultural factors do not define or influence the way labor relations are conducted in China's workplace, as many suppose they do.

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A comparative study of the background, development, laws, structure, and impact of teacher unionism in nations around the world. This analysis offers an international perspective on the profession, and its halting but powerful efforts to form unions and to engage in collective bargaining.

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The study of European labor relations has traditionally been divided between two major theoretical perspectives.

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Five basic theories of unionism are examined: Protestant Christian Socialist and Roman Catholic Christian social movements, the Marxian socialist movements, the environmental psychology discipline, and the jurisprudential history discipline.

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The second chapter discusses different cooperative programs such as employee input programs, safety programs, performance incentive programs, and training programs.

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From the early days come tales of financial skulduggery and worries that sparks from locomotives might ignite sheep's fleeces. This volume includes stories of railway travel, from the palatial carriages of tsars and maharajahs to the open trucks of the 'lower orders', mishaps and faux pas.

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This book provides a thorough guide to the issues to be resolved to minimize risks and maximize private and public rewards for land development projects.

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A vivid insider's account of Myanmar, one of the most inaccessible and mysterious countries in our region.

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A comprehensive survey of the issues surrounding agrarian reform projects in Latin America and an introduction to the history, land settlement patterns and agriculture of the Dominican Republic. Meyer reviews the literature relevant to the study of reform sector projects.

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Land Settlement Policies and Population Redistribution in Developing Countries provides a comparative analysis, initiated by the International Labour Office, of land settlement policies and programs in developing countries under various socioeconomic conditions.

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A memorial to Thorner's wide-ranging contribution to Indian economics.

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In 1974, Maurice Zeitlin published a seminal article in The American Journal of Sociology, criticizing managerial theory and evidence, which ended one era in the analysis of the large corporation's ownership and control and began a new one. He called for research on the capitalist class that would reveal its inner structure--particularly the intera