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Working conditions impact our health, the amount of time we can spend with family, our options during momentous life events, and whether we keep or lose a job when the unexpected occurs. The global community has accepted the argument that any country that guarantees decent working conditions will suffer higher unemployment and be less competitive. This book shatters this view by presenting the first ever global analysis of the relationship between...
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"The ROI of Human Capital draws on years of quantitative and qualitative international research by the Saratoga Institute to provide a methodology for measuring the bottom-line effect of employee performance. Its author, Institute founder Jac Fitz-enz, virtually invented human performance benchmarking - a concept that demands to be understood as businesses face a long-range shortage of qualified workers at all levels." "Applying a blend of management...
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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back...
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"In the great boom of the 1990s, top management's compensation soared, but the wages of most Americans barely grew at all. This wage stagnation has baffled experts, but in The new ruthless economy, Simon Head points to information technology as the prime cause of this growing wage disparity"--Jacket.
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Comprises seven papers which analyse risk bearing by workers in the USA and Canada. Examines changes in wages and job risk, employment arrangements, health care coverage, social security and occupational pension schemes and accident compensation mainly from the 1970s to the 1990s. Discusses policy options.
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Rifkin argues that we are entering a new phase in history characterized by the steady and inevitable decline of jobs, as sophisticated computers, robotics, telecommunications, and other cutting-edge technologies replace human beings in virtually every sector and industry -- from manufacturing, retail, and financial services, to transportation, agriculture, and government. He suggests that it is time to prepare ourselves and our institutions for a...
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Human impacts on the environment are largely driven by economic forces. If a more ecologically sustainable world is to be achieved, significant changes must be made to the current growth- and consumption-dependent economic system. The "Frontier Issues in Economic Thought" series was designed to assist the growing number of economists and others who are responding to the need for new thinking about economics in the face of environmental and social...
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