This Handbook is an authoritative and invaluable reference tool, uniquely analysing the forces governing unionism, union behaviour and union impact from a variety of perspectives, both theoretical and empirical. The 14 chapters are written in an accessible style by acknowledged leading...

In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market

This book provides in-depth and innovative analysis of the minimum wage in Europe. The authors explore its role and scope within the enlarged EU, and address the question of whether there should be harmonization between the individual member states or even a common EU minimum wage. They also...

For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill...

"Combining theoretical and practical aspects of policy analysis, this book evaluates actual and proposed policy reforms to income tax and transfer systems, using a behavioural tax microsimulation model. It highlights how these models allow for the full details of tax systems and the considerable...

"This authoritative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labour markets of firms, it clearly lays out the current state of...

Is growth theory a real subject? /Franklin M. Fisher --What is endogenous growth theory? /Mark Roberts and Mark Setterfield --Is the natural rate of growth exogenous? /Miguel Leon-Ledesma and A.P. Thirlwall --The representative firm and increasing returns : then and now /Stephanie Blankenberg...

This Handbook deepens and extends the engagement between research concerned with work and employment and labour geography. It links fundamental concepts concerning the politics of place that human geographers have developed in recent years with the world of work

Job quality is a crucial link between the economy and well-being. This original book proves that it can and should be measured, proposing a theoretically based multidimensional "Index of Job Quality" that is tested in the EU member States. The index proves particularly useful to measure the...

Contents: Part I: Setting the scene -- 1. Introduction to a research agenda for workplace stress and wellbeing / E. Kevin Kelloway and Cary L. Cooper -- 2. Workplace stress and wellbeing: Pathways for future research advances / James Campbell Quick -- 3. The cost of stress to uk employers and...