"Full Employment and High Growth in Europe evaluates the impact produced by a new cycle of structural reforms over the European Union economy as a whole, and over single European countries. The structural reforms concern the size and composition of government expenditure, the go…
"In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as "office ladies" (OLs) or "flowers of the workplace." Largely nameless, OLs serve tea to the men and type and file their reports. They are exempt from the traditional lifetime employ…
Economists may suppose that low-wage work can result in correspondingly low productivity. The best solution to high unemployment and turnover and low productivity is to pay users of low-wage labor a subsidy for each unit of labor they use. Top economists examine the best ways to…
To what extent were the ideals of white supremacy actually realised during apartheid? This book argues that contradictory dynamics in the urban labour market facilitated and undermined the apartheid aim of white supremacy in the workplace. So, whereas racial inequality was deepe…
