Investing in America's Workforce
Author: Carl E. Van Horn
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780692163184
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The Specter of Global China
Author: Ching Kwan Lee
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-01-03
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 022634083X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unnatural capital: Chinese state investment and its travails in Africa -- Varieties of accumulation: profit maximization and beyond -- Labor bargains: regimes of exploitation and exclusion -- Managerial ethos: collective asceticism versus individual careerism -- Contesting capital: aspiration and capacity from below -- Eventful global China -- Appendix: an ethnographer's odyssey: the mundane and the sublime of researching China in Zambia
Investment in Women's Human Capital
Author: T. Paul Schultz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995-06-15
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780226740874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How are human capital investments allocated between women and men? What are the returns to investments in women's nutrition, health care, education, mobility, and training? In thirteen wide-ranging and innovative empirical analyses, Investment in Women's Human Capital explores the nature of human capital distributions to women and their effect on outcomes within the family. Section I considers the experiences of high-income countries, examining the limitations of industrialization for the advancement of women; returns to secondary education for women; and state control of women's education and labor market productivity through the design of tax systems and the public subsidy of children. The remaining four sections investigate health, education, household structure and labor markets, and measurement issues in low-income countries, including the effect of technological change on transfers of wealth to and from children in India; women's and men's responses to the costs of medical care in Kenya; the effects of birth order and sex on educational attainment in Taiwan; wage returns to schooling in Indonesia and in Cote d'Ivoire; and the increasing prevalence of female-headed households and the correlates of gender differences in wages in Brazil.
The Mobility of Labor and Capital
Author: Saskia Sassen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-06-29
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521386722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this empirical study, Saskia Sassen offers a fresh understanding of the processes of international migration. Focusing on immigration into the US from 1960 to 1985 and the part played by American economic activities abroad, as well as foreign investment in the US, she examines the various ways in which the internationalization of production contributes to the formation and direction of labor migration.
The Impact of International Trade and Investment on Employment
Author: United States. Bureau of International Labor Affairs
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 354
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Author: United States. Department of Labor. Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies in Labor Markets
Author: Sherwin Rosen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0226726304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The papers in this volume present an excellent sampling of the best of current research in labor economics, combining the most sophisticated theory and econometric methods with high-quality data on a variety of problems. Originally presented at a Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research conference on labor markets in 1978, and not published elsewhere, the thirteen papers treat four interrelated themes: labor mobility, job turnover, and life-cycle dynamics; the analysis of unemployment compensation and employment policy; labor market discrimination; and labor market information and investment. The Introduction by Sherwin Rosen provides a thoughtful guide to the contents of the papers and offers suggestions for continuing research.
Working Capital
Author: Archon Fung
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780801439018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →U.S. PENSION FUNDS are now worth more than $7 trillion, and many people believe that the most important task for the labor movement is to harness its share of this capital and develop strategies that will help, rather than hurt, workers and unions. Working Capital challenges money managers and today's labor movement by asking how worker's hard earned savings can be put to use in socially and economically progressive ways. Responsible management of pensions will create greater growth and prosperity in America, and the authors of Working Capital show that the long-term interests of pension plan beneficiaries are well served through a "worker-owners" view of the economy. This book builds on the work of the Heartland Forum supported by the United Steelworkers of America, the AFL-CIO's Center for Working Capital, and several foundations, including the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, to draw together the wisdom of a number of experts on labor's next best moves in the pension market.
Monitoring International Labor Standards: Human Capital Investment
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003-10-23
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 0309182581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An increasingly globalized world economy creates new economic, cultural, and social opportunities. Globalization also poses the challenge of ensuring that workers throughout the world share in these opportunities. In 1998 the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, a set of core international labor standards embodying basic workers' rights. Carrying out this commitment to workers' rights requires an understanding of labor conditions and country-level compliance with these standards. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) contracted with the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies to advise the U.S. government on the design of an integrated and comprehensive system to monitor country-level compliance with these core international labor standards. The NRC has convened the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards (CMILS) to provide expert, science-based advice on monitoring compliance with international labor standards.
Labor Costs and Corporate Investment in Italy
Author: Daniel Garcia-Macia
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2020-02-21
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 1513529722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The recovery of private investment in Italy has lagged its euro area peers over the past decade. This paper examines the role of elevated labor costs in hindering the recovery. Specifically, labor costs rose faster than labor productivity prior to the global financial crisis and have remained high since, weighing on firms’ profits, capital returns, and thus capacity to invest. Empirical analysis provides evidence for the impact of wages on investment at the sectoral and firm levels. Sectoral wage growth seems unrelated to sectoral productivity growth, but is negatively associated with investment. Firm-level data permit a better identification—by exploiting the interaction between sectoral wage growth (exogenous to the firm) and the lagged labor share of the firm. A 1 percent increase in real wages is estimated to cause a 1/3 percent fall in fixed capital. Profits absorb only 1⁄2 of the cost increase, pointing to the role of liquidity constraints. These results highlight the need for labor market reform to reinvigorate investment, and thus labor productivity and job creation.
