"Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance is an edited collection focused on the design and re-design of welfare-to-work systems around the world"--
Focusing on the perspectives of policy-makers, the book's purpose is to closely examine the factors that make for successful/unsuccessful labor market related policy reforms. The aim is to reveal the political aspects, namely the chances, challenges and impediments to designing …
"This landmark graduate level text combines depth and breadth of coverage with recent, cutting edge work in all the major areas of modern labor economics. Labor Economics is the only textbook available for advanced graduate students in the field, and it will be widely used, beca…
Lehrbuch der Sozialpolitik
by Althammer, Jörg, Lampert, Heinz, Sommer, Maximilian
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Als Standardwerk in den Sozialwissenschaften bietet das Buch einen anerkannten und kompetenten Überblick über Geschichte, Theorie, Handlungsfelder und Reformprobleme der staatlichen Sozialpolitik. Durch zahlreiche Tabellen, Schaubilder, Übersichten, Literaturhinweise und ein aus…
Are migrant workers needed to "do the jobs that locals will not do" or are they simply a more exploitable labor force? Do they have a better "work ethic" or are they less able to complain? Is migrant labor the solution to "skills shortages" or actually part of the problem? This …
