Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Dedication -- Preface -- Editors' Note -- Table of Contents -- About the Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction: Opportunity in America – Setting the Stage -- PART I: Understanding Where We Are Today -- PART II: The Labor Market -- PART III: Education and Opportunity.-PART IV: Politics and the Road Ahead -- PART V: Seeking Inclusive Prosperity -- Appe…
This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The book show…
and Summary -- International Product Market Integration and Wage Bargaining -- Comment on Torben M. Andersen's Paper -- Wage Formation under Low Inflation -- Comment on Steinar Holden's Paper -- The Finnish Bargaining System: Actors' Perceptions -- Productivity, Incentives and Relative Wages -- Local Bargaining and Employers' Co-operation Options -- Do Centralized Bargains Lead to Wage Moderati…
Dimensions of Quality Problem in the Developing Countries -- Theories of Quality Choice -- Income Distribution, Trade Policy and Export Quality -- Wage Policy, Standards and the Labour Market -- Inter-Linkage Between Skill Formation and Export Quality -- Dirty Exports and Environmental Standards.This book makes an analytical study of implications of the new set of non-tariff barriers that are f…
The French and the German education systems -- Educational attainment in France and Germany -- Education and unemployment in France and Germany -- Education and earnings in France and Germany -- Conclusion.This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of educational inequalities and their consequences on individual labour market outcomes for men and women in France and Germany, two countr…
Keynesian and Monetarist Views on the German Unemployment Problem -- The Rational Expectations Revolution -- Monetary Policy in the New Keynesian Model -- Introducing Nonlinearities into the New Keynesian Model -- Revisiting the Natural Rate Hypothesis -- Concluding Remarks.Having the high unemployment in Germany in mind, this book discusses how macroeconomic theory has evolved over the past fo…
1. The Mobility Dream and its Consequences -- 2. Mobility Contexts -- 3. New Dilemmas in Europe’s Race for Global Talent: A Wrong Turn for Tertiary Education? -- 4. Working for Europe? Managing Erasmus+ in the Austerity Era -- 5. Recruiting Interns and Keeping them ‘Externs’: Mobility Paradoxes in Internship Governance -- 6. Being a Researcher: Professional Stability and Career Trajectori…
1. Introduction -- 2. Globalization and its Impact on the Italian Fashion Industry -- 3. The Migrant Pathway of Emplacement in Prato -- 4. The Global Low-End Fashion Center -- 5. The Mobile Regime -- 6. The Foundations of the Mobile Regime: Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and Ethnicization of the Workplace -- 7. "My City Brought to its Knees": The Downscaling of Prato and the Crimin…