New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration
This book offers a comparative overview on Portuguese emigration in Europe and outside the EU in times of recession. In ...
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Operating Hours and Working Times
The book presents the descriptive findings and analytical results from the recent representative European Union Company survey ...
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Qualitative Indicators of Labour Standards
Recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in the use and construction of "qualitative" indicators of labour ...
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Rationality at Work
Wage setting arrangements are widely seen as key ingredients to macro-economic success. Examining their micro-foundations ...
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Regionalisation, Growth, and Economic Integration
The purpose of this book is to analyse the process of regionalisation and to plot its future development. Regionalisation ...
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Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class New Voting Patterns
This book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. ...
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Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015
This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set ...
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Territorial Cohesion
"Territorial cohesion" strives for a more balanced spatial development and seeks to improve integration throughout the ...
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The EU and the Economies of the Eastern European Enlargement
The enlargement of the European Union towards the East from May 2004 has generated an increase of about 100 million inhabitants ...
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The European Labour Market
This book brings together up-to-date findings on the regional dimensions of European labour markets. It provides a conceptual ...
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Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America
This book identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative ...
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Trade Union Cooperation in Europe Patterns, Conditions, Issues
This book discusses transnational trade union cooperation in Europe – its forms, focuses, conditions, and obstacles. It ...
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Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice
This book documents and analyses the various interventions – legal, political, and even artistic – that followed the ...
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Unemployment Insurance and Non-Standard Employment : Four European Countries in Comparison
The importance of non-standard employment forms has increased over the last decades. Janine Leschke addresses two important ...
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Volunteering and Social Inclusion : Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain
Conceptualising employment and volunteering as two distinct forms of social inclusion, Susanne Strauß analyses their interrelations ...
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When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?
This book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion ...
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Working through Barriers : Host Country Institutions and Immigrant Labour Market Performance in Europe
Working through Barriers develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors (and underlying mechanisms) affecting immigrant ...
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Youthquake 2017 : The Rise of Young Cosmopolitans in Britain
Investigates the reasons behind the 2017 youthquake – which saw the highest rate of youth turnout in a quarter of a century, ...
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