The international political economy of work and employability

Global shifts to a knowledge based economy have led to the semi- proletarianization of labour and the emergence of a transnational precariat class. It has allowed for the propaganda of the emancipation of labour by way of membership in the creatives club. Workers and the ...

The contentious politics of unemployment in Europe

Welfare state and political opportunities

Ed. Marco Giugni. This collection provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in six European countries. Combining two theoretical traditions that so far have followed quite separate tracks (the literature on social movements and contentious politics and the literature on the ...

Mass unemployment and the State

Mass Unemployment and the State shows that domestic political arrangements -- the character of party competition, the relationship between interest organizations and the state, and underlying assumptions about the purpose of political authority -- have mattered greatly to the economic and labor market policies that European governments ...

Perspectivas del empleo 2010

salir de la crisis del empleo

Elaborado por la Organización de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económico. El presente volumen, dedicado a la frágil recuperación económica, se inicia con un Editorial bajo el título #De una profunda recesión a una frágil recuperación: cómo pueden ayudar las políticas del mercado de trabajo a promover ...

Empleo, desempleo y pobreza

(Revista Panorama Social, Nº12, año 2010)

Cómo entrar en el mundo laboral después de la universidad

Si estás en el último curso de la carrera, lo que vayas a hacer en los próximos meses tiene consecuencias decisivas para tu futuro. Hay que repasar todas las materias para los exámenes finales, redactar trabajos y preparar solicitudes de empleo. ¿Cómo puedes sacar el ...

Memorias de un parado

la pesadilla de buscar empleo en España

Memorias de un parado narra las tribulaciones de un licenciado en busca de un trabajo a su altura. En un país que se desmorona, un parado de contrastada experiencia y amplia formación sólo encuentra puertas cerradas, caras largas, evasivas y faltas de respeto. Así, el ...

OECD employment outlook

moving beyond the jobs crisis

The OECD Employment Outlook provides an annual assessment of labour market developments and prospects in member countries. This issue focuses on the jobs crisis in particular and looks at steps taken by governments to help workers and the unemployed. It recommends ways of preventing current ...

The political economy of work

Against the background of increasing interest in the changing nature and quality of work, "The Political Economy of Work" offers a new and unique assessment of the theoretical analysis of work. The author challenges some common preconceptions about work and promotes an original approach to ...

The natural survival of work

job creation and job destruction in a growing economy

Every working day in the United States, 90,000 jobs disappear - and an equal number are created. This discovery has radically altered the way economists think about how labor markets work. Without this necessary phenomenon of 'creative destruction', our economies would experience much lower growth ...

Employment policy in the European Union

origins, themes and prospects

Eds. Michael Gold. This is the only book to deal with the mechanics of social policy. It has equal appeal for academics and students. It has a strong team of international contributors.The author opens with a historical overview of EU social and employment policy ...

¡Me han despedido!

afrontar constructivamente el desempleo

¿Qué hacer cuando te despiden? ¿Qué actitud tomar y qué pasos dar? Al quedarse sin trabajo, mucha gente es víctima de la frustración y el desánimo. Otro grupo, sin embargo, se toma las cosas de otro modo y mantiene siempre una actitud positiva. Pensar, sentir ...

Third way reforms

social democracy after the Golden Age

This book examines the transformation of contemporary social democracy through the concept of 'third way' reforms in nine OECD countries.

Profitability and unemployment

Discussions of economic policy argue that an adequate level of profitability is a precondition for avoiding future unemployment. This book studies the rationale for this statement. The analysis is built round a simple model of the Harrod-Doman type and extends the study of fixed-price equilibria ...

Money employment and inflation

This is a textbook on macroeconomic theory that attempts to rework the theory of macroeconomic relations through a re-examination of their microeconomic foundations. In the tradition of Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (published in 1936), and Patinkin's Money, Interest, and ...

Full employment abandoned

shifting sands and policy failures

The authors' contention in this book is that much of the blame for labour under-utilisation across OECD countries lies with the policy failures of national governments. They argue that at a time when budget deficits should have been used to stimulate the demand needed to ...

Mondialisation et délocalisation des entreprises

Cet ouvrage analyse les logiques, les formes et les effets de la mondialisation des entreprises et de la délocalisation des activités. Quelle est l'ampleur de ces phénomènes ? Assiste-t-on à une généralisation de la délocalisation dans les services, les activités de R&D, et de ...

Outsourcing y creación de empleo

¿una estrategia de futuro?

El Outsourcing se concibe como aquella estrategia de obtención simultánea de ventajas competitivas de primer orden o de rango superior (I+D+i) y de segundo orden o de rango inferior (menores costes salariales), mediante la reducción de costes fijos netos de una empresa, gracias ...

El arte de buscar empleo

guía práctica para encontrar trabajo

Encontrar trabajo se ha convertido en todo un arte. Por ello, tanto para los que buscan su primera oportunidad en el mercado laboral como para aquellos que quieren dar un giro en su trayectoria profesional, esta guía será una herramienta muy útil que permitirá conocer ...

Nuevas tecnologías, nuevos mercados de trabajo

INDICE: Trabajo y nuevas tecnologías. La oferta y la demanda. Efectos sobre los salarios. Desempleo y te mporalidad.