Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

J.-A.Johannessen著　第四次産業革命と労働市場
Johannessen, Jon-Arild, The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Labour Market: Future-proofing Work in the Innovation Economy. (Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation) 216 pp. 2023:9 (Routledge, UK) <701-211>
ISBN 978-1-03-256429-6 hard ¥32,747.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

The innovation economy is the driver for the development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and consequently, there is a growing focus on innovation in general and technological innovation in particular. In this context, there is much to suggest that it is the triple impact of artificial intelligence, big data and 5G- and 6G networks that will go beyond the limits of existing competence. This book is about the new competence that is emerging in the wake of artificial intelligence and intelligent robots. It explains how these two technologies are completely fundamental to what is known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The author argues that artificial intelligence will promote automation, which will reduce wages rather than increase unemployment statistics. The book posits that when the utility value of technology and the rate of dissemination of technology is high, people who have the necessary competence will both future-proof their jobs in the labour market and also be among the highest-paid workers in the new economy that is emerging from the innovation economy. Further, by making education more compatible with new technology will enable graduates to access more secure and better paid jobs, and all behavioural fields related to new technology will flourish because they can be used in many contexts to steer people's behaviour in certain directions through the integration of big data and artificial intelligence. The book employs the following scholarly methods: conceptual generalization, scenario-based thinking and historical economic methodology, thus it will be of particular benefit to academic scholars, researchers and graduate students who are concerned with the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the labour market.

構造的人種差別の経済学－階層の経済学と米国労働市場
Mason, Patrick L., The Economics of Structural Racism: Stratification Economics and US Labor Markets. (Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity) 388 pp. 2023:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <700-403>
ISBN 978-1-00-929080-7 hard ¥17,633.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00
ISBN 978-1-00-929077-7 paper ¥5,790.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99

This extensive and comprehensive book tracks persistent racial disparities in the US across multiple regimes of structural racism. It begins with an examination of the economics of racial identity, mechanisms of stratification, and regimes of structural racism. It analyzes trends in racial inequality in education and changes in family structure since the demise of Jim Crow. The book also examines generational trends in income, wealth, and employment for families and individuals, by race, gender, and national region. It explores economic differences among African Americans, by region, ethnicity, nativity, gender, and racial identity. Finally, the book provides a theoretical analysis of structural racism, productivity, and wages, with a special focus on the role of managers and instrumental discrimination inside the firm. The book concludes with an investigation of instrumental discrimination, hate crimes, the criminal legal system, and the impact of mass incarceration on family structure and economic inequality.

労働のグローバル政治経済研究ハンドブック
Atzeni, Maurizio / Azzellini, Dario et al. (eds.), Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work. 640 pp. 2023:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <700-546>
ISBN 978-1-83910-657-6 hard ¥61,715.- (税込) GB￡ 245.00

This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decolonising the political economy of work.Moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, this Handbook provides a comprehensive account of the relations between different forms of work, exploitation, class configuration and worker resistance. With insights from global experts across the social sciences, it examines changes in technology, geographies of production, and the dynamics of the global capitalist political economy to map modern configurations of work. Using ongoing empirical qualitative research, contributors explore key issues such as capital accumulation, migration, digital work, trade unionism and reproductive labour. There is a particular focus on perspectives from the Global South, with in-depth analyses of class and work in countries and regional economic blocs used to explore the dynamics between the local and the global.Providing an authoritative overview of traditional and current debates, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students and researchers of political economy, industrial relations and the sociology of work, critical management studies, social movement studies, and development.

先進民主主義国における労働市場政策ハンドブック
Clegg, Daniel / Durazzi, Niccolo (eds.), Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies. 576 pp. 2023:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <700-547>
ISBN 978-1-80088-087-0 hard ¥57,937.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

Bringing together contributions from leading labour market policy scholars from across the globe, this state-of-the-art Handbook offers extensive and compelling analyses of labour market policy in advanced democracies.Drawing on the lively debates on labour market policy that have characterised comparative social policy and comparative political economy scholarship in recent years, the Handbook provides theoretical insights into the core concepts, changing contexts, and main actors that shape contemporary labour market policy. Using macro-regional case studies spanning Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America, it offers detailed empirical illustrations of how major labour market policies and institutions have evolved over time and across countries. Chapters further examine the diversity of policy options and their various political implications, assessing the relationship between labour market policy and major socio-economic outcomes, such as inequality, well-being and political participation.Integrating cutting-edge theory with rich empirical insights, this incisive Handbook will be an invaluable reference for students and scholars of comparative social policy and comparative political economy. Its comprehensive coverage will also allow policymakers and practitioners to reflect critically on the role of labour market policy in today's complex societies.

ジェンダーの賃金格差を説明する
Sielska, Alicja, Explaining the Gender Wage Gap: The Missing Aspects of Discrimination. 160 pp. 2023:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <700-549>
ISBN 978-1-03-531258-0 hard ¥18,892.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

This timely book offers a fascinating contemporary analysis of research into the gender pay gap while also providing important nuanced observations. It illustrates the variant methodologies that have been employed by researchers who have attempted to elucidate this challenging topic. Explaining the Gender Wage Gap examines often-neglected factors that highlight women's lower earnings compared to men, such as risk aversion and the negotiation process. Chapters compare feminist and neoclassical discrimination theories whilst analysing models used to calculate the gender wage gap. They conclude that modern discrimination against women in the labour market may be less severe than public assumptions suggest. Due to its investigative content, this intriguing book will be perfect for researchers and students exploring macroeconomics, the labour market and gender discrimination. It will also be beneficial for university professors lecturing in subjects such as economics, sociology and labour policy.

Hartog, Joop, The Political Economy of Immigration in The Netherlands: Population, Land and Welfare. (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics) 216 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) <699-133>
ISBN 978-1-03-244758-2 hard ¥32,747.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income. This book offers a broad survey of the conventional approach but in addition, also considers better measures of welfare or well-being, offers a detailed description and evaluation of policies - rules, regulations and implementation. The book offers a long, historical perspective on the development of population density in The Netherlands. It begins with the history of The Netherlands: geological and cultural formation of the land - and water - and population development. The Netherlands is unique in that much of the land is man-made, in particular the western part, which is economically speaking the most developed area. It is also special for its very high population growth rate that took off during the 19th century. The key argument of the book is that population size is irrelevant for income per capita, that land is a binding constraint in The Netherlands and that negative external effects of increasing population size lead to welfare losses from further population growth, whether by natural growth or by immigration. At present, the battle for scarce land is intense and bitter, with a strong clash between developers who want to build houses, farmers who do not want to give up farming and conservationists who increasingly find support in the courts for insufficiently caring for the natural environment. The book combines a general analysis of population density, both theoretical and empirical with an in-depth presentation of actual policies in a country with intense pressure on available land.

交差性と差別－米国労働市場の考察
White, Roger, Intersectionality and Discrimination: An Examination of the U.S. Labor Market. 159 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <698-271>
ISBN 978-3-031-26124-4 hard ¥8,753.- (税込) EUR 39.99

In 1989, Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality" to describe the interdependent and overlapping systems of discrimination and disadvantage that result from the interconnected nature of social categorizations. These categories include, but are not limited to, disability, gender identity, nationality, race, and socioeconomic class. In recent years, we have witnessed increased societal interest in the notion of equal economic, political, and social rights. This has commonly manifested in a desire for equality of opportunity (i.e., social justice). This book applies an intersectional approach to examine a specific facet of inequality - namely, the presence and magnitude of wage discrimination in the U.S. labor market. This book accomplishes several objectives. It introduces intersectional analysis for readers who are unfamiliar with the topic. The book identifies intersectional wage discrimination for a large number of worker groups that are defined by multiple intersecting identities (i.e., the personal characteristics of Hispanic ethnicity, nativity, race, and sex). It also documents variation in wage differentials both between worker groups (i.e., contemporaneously) and within groups (i.e., intertemporally). Finally, given the policy relevance of our topic, it is fitting that the final chapter is devoted to corresponding conclusions.

Bharati, Kanchan / Lobo, Lancy / Kumar, Dhananjay, Urban Daily Labour Markets in Gujarat, Western India. 220 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-207>
ISBN 978-1-03-222437-4 hard ¥32,747.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market. These markets form an important sector of the urban informal labour market and contribute significantly to the Indian economy. This book presents an empirical, comparative picture of daily labour markets, in Gujarat, Western India.These markets consist mostly of intra-state and interstate migrant workers who suffer from layered multiple marginalities based on markers of informality, migrant status, caste, ethnicity, gender, poor agency and often live in the peripheries of the cities without any right and entitlements to its spaces and services. This study, based on an extensive survey of three cities in Gujarat, contains description and analysis of the places of migration and their causes as well as the working and living conditions of the workers along with their spending patterns on food, health, education and leisure. It mirrors the work, life and issues of these workers on the regional level while contributing to a better understanding for future policy interventions.An in-depth study, the book will be of interest to students and researchers of Labour Economics, Labour Studies, Urban Planning, Social Work, Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography. It will also be useful to NGOs/Trade Unions working with migrant workers, civil servants in Labour department and other related departments, city planners and policy makers.

Arslan, Ayse, Women's Productive and Reproductive Labour: Class and Gender Inequalities in Turkey. (Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics) 248 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-214>
ISBN 978-0-367-71029-3 hard ¥32,747.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book looks at the dynamic relationship between women's productive and reproductive work in a Global South country from a Global South perspective. Applying a feminist political economy and historical materialist approach and building on an ethnographic extended case study, it analyses the relationships between class and gender across both the productive and reproductive realms at the macro and micro levels in the case of women garment workers in Turkey. Overall, it shows that the material and social conditions of women's productive and reproductive work co-constitute each other. It suggests that productive and social reproductive labour should be examined as an integrated process and an interrelated social relation, in constant dialogue with other social relations. This book is of interest to researchers and students in the disciplines of gender studies, labour studies, feminist economics, sociology and development studies. Given that most studies on social reproduction have largely focused on the Global North, this book is of particular interest to those in search of a more comprehensive and holistic understanding. It is also of great relevance to policymakers concerned with gender and labour issues as well as labour and feminist activists.

Gradin, Carlos / Lewandowski, P. / Schotte, S. et al. (eds.), Tasks, Skills, and Institutions: The Changing Nature of Work and Inequality. (UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics) 272 pp. 2023:6 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <696-199>
ISBN 978-0-19-287224-1 hard ¥20,907.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The book investigates the trends in earnings inequalities in developing countries to determine the main drivers. Particular attention is paid to extending the most conventional explanations of changes in earnings inequality, based on the relative abundance of skilled and unskilled labour, with recent theories that put the nature of tasks performed by workers in their jobs, rather than their skills, at the centre of the analysis. The latter approach has helped to explain relevant patterns recently observed in the trends in earnings inequality in the US and other industrialized countries. Developed countries have experienced a polarization in earnings and in employment, namely stronger growth in the earnings and jobs for the most and least skilled workers at the expense of those in the middle. This pattern has been attributed to differences in tasks-whether a given job is routine and can be automated or offshored-rather than skills, and has reduced employment and incomes in typical middle-class jobs in manufacturing and services. However, this narrative has been developed in the context of mature industrialized economies on the frontier of technological change that have also seen a large set of activities offshored to emergent economies. Evidence for developing countries, however, is still scarce and faces bigger challenges, both conceptual, and in terms of gathering the necessary data on earnings and task content of jobs. This book presents the main results of the UNU-WIDER project, The Changing Nature of Work and Inequality, aiming to fill this knowledge gap.

Deng, Xin / Fraser, Kym / Shen, Jie (eds.), Ageing in China: What does it mean for the Job Market? 144 pp. 2023:3 (Springer, UK) <695-544>
ISBN 978-981-19-9680-1 hard ¥37,210.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the effect of ageing population in China on labour market. The delay in releasing 2020 census data in China once again drew world's attention to the ageing population in China: the births have fallen to their lowest level since the 1960s. The relaxation of one-child child policy seems to have little impact to reverse the declining birth rate starting in the 2010s. Rising longevity have made China - the most populous country in the world- fast becoming an ageing society. Within a few decades, it will become the country with the largest ageing population in the world. This book adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the effects of ageing population on labour market at three levels: Macro, organizational and individual levels. Population ageing in China is of interest to researchers, practitioners and policy makers across the world. Population ageing has profound effects on various parts of the society, and this book will focus on the labour market, aiming at producing a comprehensive picture of how population ageing affecting the composition of workforce and the way people work from the perspective of individuals, organization and society as a whole. This book examines China's population ageing through the lens of economics, management and sociology, in order to produce a comprehensive understanding of this issue. This book includes cutting-edge research and most up-to-date statistics for arguably China's most important social change for the next few decades. This book encases high quality research on China's ageing population and is expected to the reliable source of information for future research and policy development. This book presents a collection of chapters examining the impact of population ageing at three levels in order to provide a holistic view of this matter and allow readers to choose the topic that meet their interests.

Lewis, Gavin, The Opportunity Index: A Solution-Based Framework to Dismantle the Racial Wealth Gap. 256 pp. 2023:3 (Wiley, US) <695-545>
ISBN 978-1-119-84076-3 hard ¥5,574.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

A bold and fresh perspective unravelling the economics of racial inequality In The Opportunity Index, BlackRock Managing Director and co-founder of the #Talkaboutblack movement, Gavin Lewis, skillfully plots the origins of the racial wealth gap and its impact on the inequalities faced by the Black community today. Weaving a personal and at times moving narrative through some of the most disruptive events of our time, he offers a blueprint for businesses and individuals to understand the risks and opportunities presented by inequality and issues an urgent call to action. The Opportunity Index also presents: A root cause-oriented and solutions-focused exploration of the racial wealth gap and its role in social, health, and opportunity inequalityA perspective that moves beyond the typical workplace discussion to explore the deeper truths about society and the role of capitalismThe lessons learned from the #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo, and climate change movements and how these provide case studies for real and lasting changeAn eye-opening and insightful treatment of what equity and access mean in the context of international finance, The Opportunity Index will earn a place in the libraries of finance professionals, business leaders, teachers, academics, community leaders, diversity, equity, and inclusion experts, and anyone else with an interest in racial, social, and economic fairness around the world.

COVID-19 and Labor Markets in Southeast Asia: Impacts on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. 118 pp. 2021:12 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <695-400>
ISBN 978-92-9269-250-6 paper ¥6,172.- (税込) US$ 31.00

This report examines the impacts of COVID-19 on labour markets along with adjustment patterns in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam.Labour markets in Southeast Asia were particularly hit hard in 2020 when government pandemic containment measures were most severe. COVID-19 exacerbated growing inequalities in the region and exposed large gaps in social protection . This report aims to help policymakers identify priorities, constraints, and opportunities for developing effective labour market strategies for economic recovery and beyond.

Singh, Bir, India's Informal Economy: Contractual Labour in the Formal Manufacturing Sector. (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics) 176 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-210>
ISBN 978-1-03-237371-3 hard ¥32,747.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

The demand for economic inclusion has increasingly intensified, as manifested by the growing movements of farmers, workers, and social activists. Therefore, the question of adequate social representation of marginalized and underprivileged communities has to be made pivotal in the discourse of inclusion. This book investigates selected aspects of labour market informality in India. It examines the key factors that have expedited labour informality- contractualisation - in the manufacturing sector since the early 1990s. It analyses the features of informality and inclusion from the perspective of not just class but also the caste hierarchy in Indian society, thus offering readers an exhaustive overview of economic inclusion following the economic reforms and providing fresh insights into labour market informality through the lens of the social divisions in Indian society. Developed on a wide canvas of multiple processes, policies and factors that have contributed to this phenomenon, the book offers an elaborate analysis of contractualisation within the industry from the perspectives of labour legislation and the labour market. In addition, it contextualizes the issue of job informality for the post economic reforms era, from 1991 onwards. It examines the impact of the policies of economic reform on contractualisation across industries and states. Further, the book discusses the dynamics of the labour market reforms in India, given that there is a higher incidence of labour informality in India. It also highlights how the policy quest for inclusive growth has remained unfulfilled. This book will be a useful guide for advanced students, academic researchers, scholars and policy makers that are engaged with the issue of informal sector employment.

Carrizosa, Maria, Homes at Work: Urban Informality and Recognition in Latin America and Africa. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 256 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-194>
ISBN 978-1-03-228623-5 hard ¥30,228.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic working from home became a global phenomenon, yet before 2020, it was a relatively understudied practice. But in informal settlements, the definition of 'home' and 'employment' is completely intertwined, which is why there is so much to learn from them. For over half a century, mainstream theoretical approaches to urban informality, dominated by development economics, often fail to see this economic and spatial phenomenon jointly. Labor studies tend to be space-blind and spatial studies often disregard informal employment. Profoundly interdisciplinary, this work connects scholarship in development, public policy, labor studies, and feminist economics, with that in urban studies, planning, housing, architecture, and visual studies.The book walks the reader behind the closed doors of working homes that make the fabric, both social and economic, of most cities. It applies a visual methodology to reveal their "space-use intensity" and quantify the extent to which houses in informal settlements fill their inner pores with economic activity and community services. The research also revisits urban formalization policies Latin America and Africa, to uncover a fallacious politics of recognition. It ultimately argues for a recognition continuum: an approach to urban informality that is more practical and fairer.The book will be of interest to development economists, urban scholars, public policy specialists, time-use researchers, and architects working on housing, employment generation, urban livelihoods, gender studies, and related topics.

Heise, Arne / Pusch, Toralf (Hrsg.), Mindestloehne - Szenen einer Wissenschaft. (Oekonomie und Gesellschaft 34) 322 S. 2022:7 (Metropolis, GW) <693-378>
ISBN 978-3-7316-1510-1 paper ¥7,617.- (税込) EUR 34.80

Die Wirtschaftswissenschaft durchlebt schwere Zeiten: Sie hat die Weltfinanzkrise nicht kommen sehen und die darauffolgende Eurokrise mit ihrem wirtschaftspolitischen Ratschlag vielleicht sogar noch vertieft. In Deutschland hat die Oeffentlichkeit erlebt, wie die Oekonomen fast einmuetig die Einfuehrung des Mindestlohns ablehnten, weil sie einen massiven Beschaeftigungsverlust erwarteten ? und es kam ganz anders. Das vorliegende Jahrbuch will sich am Beispiel dieser scheinbaren Falsifikation des tradierten Arbeitsmarktmodells angesichts der mangelnden empirischen Belege fuer die prognostizierten Beschaeftigungsverluste des 2015 eingefuehrten Mindestlohns mit der Arbeitsweise der oekonomischen Forschergemeinschaft befassen, um Resilienzbestrebungen und Neuerungsversuche in einem wissenschaftlichen Machtfeld besser zu verstehen: Szenen einer Wissenschaft. Die Leitfragen dieses Bandes des Jahrbuchs lauten deshalb: Sind die Ergebnisse der Einfuehrung eines flaechendeckenden, bindenden Mindestlohns in Deutschland mit der traditionellen Arbeitsmarkttheorie vereinbar? Welche Konsequenzen fuer die wissenschaftliche Untersuchung des Arbeitsmarktes, aber auch fuer die wissenschaftliche Beratung der Politik muessen aus den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen gezogen werden?

Larsen, Christa / Kipper, Jenny / Schmid, A. et al. (eds.), The Relevance of Artificial Intelligence in the Digital and Green Transformation of Regional and Local Labour Markets Across Europe: Perspectives on Employment, Training, Placement, and Social Inclusion. (Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Research and its Application in the Field of Regional and Local Labour Market Monitoring) 362 S. 2022:9 (Ed. Rainer Hampp, GW) <693-379>
ISBN 978-3-9854203-7-7 paper ¥15,104.- (税込) EUR 69.00 *

Mishrif, Ashraf / Karolak, Magdalena / Mirza, C. (eds.), Nationalization of Gulf Labour Markets: Higher Education and Skills Development in Industry 4.0. (The Political Economy of the Middle East) 342 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-287>
ISBN 978-981-19-8071-8 hard ¥26,265.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book addresses critical aspects of the nationalization of labour markets in the Gulf countries. It examines the role of higher education institutions in providing the market with the right skills that are most needed in the era of the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0). The book also explores the new dynamics of technology and information systems in upgrading the skills, changing the work environment, and generating employment for the youth in the Gulf countries. The holistic approach of the subject area makes this volume indispensable to academics, researchers, students, and policy makers in the Gulf region and beyond.The book covers a broad range of topics including the nationalization of labour market programmes such as Emiratization and Saudization, attitudes toward women in workplace, the role of high-tech firms in upskilling and enhancing the productivity of workforce, while also providing sector-specific investigations in healthcare, banking, finance, tourism, and hospitality. The analysis is based on original research and primary data collected by a group of scholars from 15 countries and presented in an illustrative, accessible, and concise manner.

Newman, Katherine S. / Jacobs, Elisabeth S, Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor. 400 pp. 2023:4 (U. California Pr., US) <692-164>
ISBN 978-0-520-37910-7 hard ¥5,962.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

This timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America's most vulnerable households Most research on poverty focuses on the damage caused by persistent unemployment. But what happens when jobs are plentiful and workers are hard to come by? Moving the Needle examines how very low unemployment boosts wages at the bottom, improves benefits, lengthens job ladders, and pulls the unemployed into a booming job market. Drawing on over seventy years of quantitative data, as well as interviews with employers, jobseekers, and longtime residents of poor neighborhoods, Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs investigate the most durable positive consequences of tight labor markets. They also consider the downside of overheated economies that can ignite surging rents and spur outmigration. Moving the Needle is an urgent and original call to implement policies that will maintain the current momentum and prepare for potential slowdowns that may lie ahead

Mishra, Ram Kumar / Kumar Kujur, S. / Trivikram, K. (eds.), Higher Education, Employment and Economic Development in India: Problems, Prospects and Policies. 288 pp. 2023:4 (Routledge, UK) <691-175>
ISBN 978-1-03-210304-4 hard ¥30,228.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

This volume examines the role of higher education and employment in economic development in emerging economies like India. It looks at the contours of higher education policies and the labour market dynamics to explore ways to address joblessness and income disparity.The book discusses themes such as quality and access to higher education, the shift towards private investment in higher education, demographic dividend and joblessness among youth, social and income inequalities, labour migration and employment, and the participation of women in the workforce among others. It provides insights into the challenges relating to employment generation in the industrial sector. It also offers solutions and policy measures to move towards sustainable growth, better employment opportunities in various sectors of industries and human development.Rich in empirical data, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of education, economics, development studies, sociology, gender studies and social and economic policy.

Pankaj, Ashok, Inclusive Development Through Guaranteed Employment: India's MGNREGA Experiences. (India Studies in Business and Economics) 313 pp. 2023:1 (Springer, GW) <691-176>
ISBN 978-981-15-7442-9 hard ¥26,265.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book examines the inclusive development experiences and impacts of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). It discusses the theoretical assumptions underlying the inclusive development of Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), and draws conclusions based on robust data and real-world experiences with the MGNREGS - which has attracted global attention as India's most ambitious, rights-based development initiative and most expansive work-based social security measure, the world's largest public works programme, and people-centric approach to development. The book argues that the Scheme holds vast potential, and, in fact, has made significant contribution to the promotion of livelihoods of the poorest of the poor, but that the weak institutions of local-self-governance, entrusted for implementation of the Scheme, are incapable of exploiting them to the full. It ends with a concrete policy suggestion: the inclusive development experiences gathered with the EGS and presented here could offer a source of policy change in many developing Afro-Asian countries whose situations are similar to India's, provided the local conditions in the respective country are taken into consideration when designing the EGS. Its significance as a social security measure has increased in post-COVID loss of jobs and livelihoods of the poor.

Lerpold, Lin / Sjoeberg, Oerjan / Wennberg, Karl (eds.), Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World: Socioeconomic Opportunities and Challenges. 460 pp. 2023:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <691-252>
ISBN 978-3-031-19152-7 hard ¥10,942.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-19155-8 paper ¥8,753.- (税込) EUR 39.99

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores current migration and integration challenges. Against the background of long-term migration trends, it asks whether the pandemic has changed the patterns observed, transformed the circumstances international migrants face at destination or whether the opportunities and challenges for integration have been altered. Twenty-four researchers have contributed to this volume with research attention on how COVID-19 has affected transnationalism and identity, labour market employment, and impacted the discrimination of migrants in a variety of ways. Loyalties and tensions created by the need to include also hesitant migrant groups in vaccination programmes are explored. The role of cosmopolitanism and welfare chauvinism in narratives on inward migrations flows, the stance of trade unions on migration, the complexities of implementing return policies, and the challenges faced by unaccompanied refugee youth from Afghanistan are also discussed.

Mule, Rosa / Rizza, Roberto, Gendering the Political Economy of Labour Market Policies. (Routledge Research in Gender and Society) 232 pp. 2023:4 (Routledge, UK) <691-254>
ISBN 978-0-367-46687-9 hard ¥30,228.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

This book is a re-interpretation of labour market policy models from a gender perspective, providing an analysis of within-gender inequality and how these policies affect inequality. It sheds light on the internal and external challenges confronting different gendered political economies, with distinct constellations of adjustment problems and reform agendas to incorporate women into the labour market. As such, the book shows how female political mobilization can influence labour market policy-making process.The target audience of this book is made by researchers and postgraduate students in the disciplines of sociology, gender studies, political science, political economy, and practitioners working in the fields of welfare policies and gender labour market services.

Pinto Luna, Camilla / Barros, Denise Franca, An ANTi-History about Transgender Inclusion in the Brazilian Labor Market. (Critical Management Studies) 240 pp. 2023:3 (Emerald, UK) <691-256>
ISBN 978-1-83753-153-0 hard ¥20,905.- (税込) US$ 105.00

Though still a journey filled with resistance, a struggle for space and the recognition of rights, the Brazilian LGTBQIA+ population has achieved some legal and social progress. Yet transphobia in Brazilian society is one of the biggest problems for trans people; this social exclusion generates a multitude of difficulties when entering the formal labor market. Even companies that are considered LGBTQ+ friendly often focus more on "LGB" than "TQ+". An ANTi-History about Transgender Inclusion in the Brazilian Labor Market answers repeated calls to correct the neglect of voices from the global south and the scarcity of work on gender and transgender peoples in organizational history. Luna and Barros investigate socio-political relations of actors-networks, highlighting the main mobilizations and demobilizations in the trajectory of transgender people inclusion in organizations in Brazil. (Re)assembling a version of history about transgender people's labor inclusion and introducing a network rhizome, the authors rescue memories in the transgender-society-labor market relationship, revealing the silences and broader context surrounding recent employability initiatives. Speaking to management academics and reaching beyond to inform actions, policies, and initiatives for the inclusion of trans people in the job market, An ANTi-History about Transgender Inclusion in the Brazilian Labor Market is a novel and extremely important addition to the field of Organizational Studies.

国際労働移民－いかに送金が労働移民モデルを形成するか
Vasile, Valentina / Bunduchi, Elena / Stefan, D. et al., International Labour Mobility: How Remittances Shape the Labour Migration Model. 305 pp. 2022:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <691-257>
ISBN 978-3-031-18682-0 hard ¥26,265.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the links between migration and remittances. The role of remittances in influencing migration decision is explored in relation to economic development, education, the labour market, and social factors. The impact of remittances on migration is examined from a global perspective, with a focus on both specific countries and larger regions, such as the European Union and the former Soviet states. The challenges in managing migration flows are also discussed, alongside the impact of COVID-19 on migration, and policy suggestions are made for the efficient management of labour migration.This book aims to offer a comparative analysis of the impact of remittances resulting from labour migration and foreign direct investment on the economic growth. It will be relevant to researchers and policymakers interested in labour and migration economics.

Masters, Marick F. / Gibney, Raymond, Trade Union Finance: How Labor Organizations Raise and Spend Money. (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics) 248 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <690-275>
ISBN 978-1-03-237138-2 hard ¥30,228.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *

There are few contemporary studies on the finances of unions. Indeed, little research exists on the internal operations of unions in the U.S. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the financial resources and performance of the largest national unions. It discusses the theoretical and practical relevance of the topic, which goes directly to the formation, maintenance, and potential advancement of labor organizations. Financial capacity and performance create incentives for unions to mobilize at the grassroots level and launch major drives to improve their position in society. Understanding how unions raise and spend money provides insight as to their administrative orientation and organizational capacity. Given its topical breadth and depth, the book stands apart from the extant literature on unions in society. It is unique in the range of financial information presented, how data are analyzed, and its treatment of such important matters as compensation and benefits; operating budgets; political activism as measured by expenditures from treasury-based funds and political mechanisms funded by members through voluntary donations. The authors show not only the scope of union financial wherewithal and how it varies across labor organizations but also how such indicators compare to corporate entities who employ the rank-and-file.The book provides a wealth of information on how to analyze the finances of unions and to use this information to prepare for collective bargaining and other aspects of labor-management relations. It informs employers and other observers about how unions are able to represent members and their ability to withstand strikes.

Luna, Camilla Pinto / Barros, Denise Franca, An ANTi-History about Transgender Inclusion in the Brazilian Labor Market. (Critical Management Studies) 216 pp. 2023:1 (Emerald, UK) <688-272>
ISBN 978-1-80455-228-5 hard ¥20,905.- (税込) US$ 105.00

Jin, Bei / Zhang, Qizi (eds.), The New Trend of Global Industrial Division of Labor and China's Responses. (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China's Development Path) 291 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <688-258>
ISBN 978-981-19-5673-7 hard ¥32,832.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book explores the dynamic process of International Division of Labor with constant development and changes. The process reflects not only the development level of productivity, but also relations between countries. What would be the evolution path for the International Division of Labor? How to improve China's and emerging economies' competitiveness to meet the new industrial revolution? The book aims to answer the questions under the global context. China would explore the innovation in new economic forms to strengthen international cooperation and avoid the intensified trade frictions brought about by its industrial upgrading.

Thorat, Sukhadeo / Madheswaran, S. / Vani, B. P., Scheduled Castes in the Indian Labour Market: Employment Discrimination and Its Impact on Poverty. 324 pp. 2023:1 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <687-134>
ISBN 978-0-19-887225-2 hard ¥20,907.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00 *

This study offers insight into the discriminatory workings of the labour market and its unequal outcomes with respect to employment, wages, and occupations, and its impact on the poverty of Scheduled Caste wage workers in India. It develops an understanding of the persistence of caste inequality in employment, wages, and occupations between the Scheduled Caste and the higher castes in the private and public sectors in India. It also identifies the causes of high unemployment and low wages of the Scheduled Caste workers, and their segregation in low-paid occupations. The authors provide convincing empirical evidence ofdiscrimination in wages and its impact on reduced wage incomes and increase in the poverty of the Scheduled Caste wage workers. Estimation of discrimination in employment, unemployment, and occupation, and its impact on income and poverty of the Scheduled Caste is net addition to the existing knowledge on the subject.

雇用者の関与－積極的労働市場政策を機能させる
Ingold, Jo / McGurk, Patrick (eds.), Employer Engagement: Making Active Labour Market Policies Work. 256 pp. 2023:2 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <687-174>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2299-9 hard ¥22,919.- (税込) GB￡ 90.99 *

Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work to move into employment through a range of interventions including job search, preparation, training and in-work support and development. While policies, programmes and scholarship predominantly focus on jobseekers' engagement with these initiatives, this book is the first text to shed light on the employer's perspective. Bringing together renowned scholars from social and public policy and human resource management, the book draws on empirical research, comparative case studies and real-life examples from practice, providing a comprehensive analysis of this under-explored issue. This go-to resource will inform HRM and public policy scholarship and promote collaborations between the disciplines.

アイルランドにおける「福祉から就労へ」の市場化
McGann, Michael, The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street-Level. (Policy Press Shorts Research) 152 pp. 2023:3 (Policy Pr., UK) <687-175>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6705-5 hard ¥11,335.- (税込) GB￡ 45.00 *

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work in Ireland. It offers Ireland's introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates in social and public policy about the role of market governance in intensifying the turn towards more regulatory and conditional welfare models on the ground. It draws on unprecedented access to, and extensive survey and interview research with, frontline employment services staff, combined with in-depth interviews with policy officials, organisational managers and jobseekers participating in activation.

Wozniak-Jechorek, Beata / Marchewka-Bartkowiak, K. (eds.), Digital Labour Markets in Central and Eastern European Countries: COVID-19 and the Future of Work. (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics) 296 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-177>
ISBN 978-1-03-235411-8 hard ¥30,228.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-235412-5 paper ¥8,813.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99 *

This book examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on changing labour markets and accelerating digitalisation of the workplace in Central and Eastern Europe. It provides an innovative and enriching take on the work experience from the pandemic times and discusses the challenges of ongoing changes in labour markets and workplaces in a way that is not covered by the extant literature.The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and digitalisation on labour market outcomes is analysed throughout 12 chapters, by 34 labour market experts from various CEE countries. Most chapters are based on empirical methods yet are presented in an easy-to-follow way to make the book also accessible for a non-scientific audience. The volume addresses the three key goals:to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the adoption of workplace digitalisation in the selected labour markets in CEE countries and the potential trade-offs facing those who do and do not have access to this benefitto complement the labour market research by incorporating the outputs of changing demand for skillsto contribute new insight into policies and regulations that govern the future of workThe book argues that the recent COVID-19 pandemic was a sombre reminder of the relevance and necessity of digital technology for a variety of sectors and market activities. It concludes that to downside the risks of vanishing jobs, as well as to minimise the threats and maximise the opportunities of digitalisation in CEE countries, labour market partners need to consider an effective governance tool in terms of inclusive access to the digital environment, re-skilling, and balanced regulations of the more problematic facets of digital work.The book will be of interest to postgraduate researchers and academics in the fields of labour economics, regional economics, and macroeconomics. Additionally, due to the broader policy implications of the topic, the book will appeal to policymakers and experts interested in labour economics.The Introduction, Chapters 4 and 12 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Bessy, Christian / Didry, Claude (dir.), L'economie est une science reflexive: chomage, convention et capacite dans l'oeuvre de Robert Salais. (Sciences sociales. Capitalismes, ethique, institutions) 2022:9 (Pr. U. du Septentrion, FR) <687-107>
ISBN 978-2-7574-3686-8 paper ¥5,472.- (税込) EUR 25.00 *

発展途上国におけるインフォーマル労働と生計の変容
Fields, Gary S. / Gindling, T. H. / Sen, K. et al. (eds.), The Job Ladder: Transforming Informal Work and Livelihoods in Developing Countries. (WIDER Studies in Development Economics) 352 pp. 2023:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <687-124>
ISBN 978-0-19-286733-9 hard ¥20,907.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Based on studies of a range of countries in the Global South, this book examines heterogeneity within informal work by applying a common conceptual framework and empirical methodology. The country studies use panel data to study the dynamics of worker transitions between formal and heterogeneous informal work and present a comparative perspective across developing countries in Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and North Africa and the Middle East. Each study provides a nuanced view of informality, dividing workers into six work statuses: formal wage-employees, upper-tier informal wage-employees, lower-tier informal wage employees, formal self-employed, and upper-tier informal self-employed. Based on this common conceptual framework, the country studies examine the distribution of workers across each of these work statuses, and document transition patterns across different formality and work statuses. The panel data analysed in each country study provide a basis for making statements about labour market transitions that are not warranted when using comparable cross-sections. The studies also examine the individual- and household-level characteristics associated with workers in each work status. Using these characteristics, each study constructs a 'job ladder' that ranks each work status, and then examines the characteristics of workers that are associated with transitions up (and down) the job ladder.

Chen, Yunsong, Causal Effects of Social Capital: Labor Markets and Beyond. 471 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-345>
ISBN 978-981-19-5911-0 hard ¥21,887.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book presents a series of studies focusing on the role of social capital in the labor market and beyond. Using the effect of individual social capital on labor markets as an example, this book pays special attention to the origins of and solutions to the endogeneity problem. It uses several identification strategies to systematically test for the causal effects of social capital. First, this book constitutes the first attempt to offer a systematic account of the progress made by social scientists in improving causal inferences into the role of social capital in labor markets. Second, the book adopts specialized approaches-both classical and new-toward different sources of endogeneity. Incorporating the latest research from outside fields, such as economics, into sociological research is a small but significant methodological innovation. Third, in addition to empirical research, this book undertakes an innovative exploration of the theory of social capital. It creatively explains the dynamic evolution of social capital, which helps balance objectivism and subjectivism when analyzing interpersonal actions. For sociologists who focus on quantitative research methods and social capital, scholars who study Chinese societies, and related students, this book provides both advanced methods and rich empirical research.

Tran, Ly Thi / Ngo, Nga Thi Hang et al., Employability in Context: Labour Market Needs, Skills Gaps and Graduate Employability Development in Regional Vietnam. (Palgrave Pivot) 235 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-346>
ISBN 978-3-031-04143-3 hard ¥24,076.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book explores the issue of graduate employability in regional Vietnam. It provides a critical discussion of not only the demands of the labour market but also the practices and challenges in the development of graduate employability and career capacity building at the national, institutional and individual levels. It discusses graduate employability in Vietnam by analysing government and institutional policies and taking into account the perspectives and experiences of three key stakeholders: employers, graduates and universities. The book highlights the development of 'employability in context' for graduates in regional Vietnam to be able to adapt to the specific social, cultural and demographic conditions of the region and tackle new employment challenges.

Brook, Scott / Comunian, R. / Corcoran, J. et al. (eds.), Gender and the Creative Labour Market: Graduates in Australia and the UK. 158 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <685-248>
ISBN 978-3-031-05066-4 hard ¥8,753.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book describes the early career outcomes for female creative graduates in Australia and the UK. It applies the international UNESCO model of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) to national graduate destination survey data in order to compare creative women's employment outcomes to those of men, as well as non-creative graduates. Chapters focus on opportunities for creative and cultural work, including salaries, geographic mobility, graduate jobs, underemployment, and skills transferability. The model covers a broad range of cultural and creative domains such as heritage, the performing arts, visual arts and craft, publishing and media industries, fashion, architecture and advertising. The book's purpose is to provide an informed discussion and empirical report to key stakeholders in the topic, such as academic researchers, teachers and students, as well as cultural sector organisations and education departments.

I.ネス編　プラットフォーム労働とグローバルなロジスティクス
Ness, Immanuel (ed.), Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion. (Routledge Research Companions in Business and Economics) 344 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) <685-249>
ISBN 978-1-03-239870-9 hard ¥37,785.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-239871-6 paper ¥11,332.- (税込) GB￡ 44.99 *

Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs. This ineluctable shift is a consequence of the concentrated application of neoliberalism since the 1980s, as capitalism is converting standardised labour markets in the developed Global North into contingent and informal labour. Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion examines the most important developments and features of global logistics and the emergence of the platform economy through historical comparative chapters and case studies. Part I surveys the logistics revolution and its impact on labour in key sectors of the global economy and probes the viability of the platform as a generator of economic and financial growth and innovation. The chapters of Part 1 offer a fulsome analysis and critique of the economic and technical reconfiguration brought on by neoliberal capitalism and the diffusion of the platform and logistics as a feasible model into the future. Part II examines labour restructuring from standardized to informal work through the platform and information technology, and the political and environmental challenges to labour. Part III provides global case studies on the informal economy through case studies of crucial economies where the platform has become dominant, and Part IV examines how the platform has contributed to geographic mobility and labour migration, and the consequences on workers. Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion presents a unique contribution to the political economy literature through highlighting the significance of the impact of the platform and logistics on the working class and potential challenges from labour across the world. This book is intended for academics, researchers and students studying technological innovation, global supply chains, labour restructuring, and worker resistance.

Polachek, Solomon W. / Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (eds.), 50th Celebratory Volume. (Research in Labor Economics 50) 580 pp. 2023:1 (Emerald, UK) <685-250>
ISBN 978-1-80455-126-4 hard ¥33,847.- (税込) US$ 170.00 *

This 50th Celebratory Research in Labor Economics volume contains ten original and innovative articles each written by stellar senior scholars in labor economics, including a Nobel Laureate. Each article deals with an aspect of worker well-being addressing questions such as: What can epidemiologists learn from search and matching models? What advanced degrees yield the highest returns? How do occupational and safety risks on the job affect earnings? What are best practices in estimating gender discrimination? Has technology exacerbated the widening earnings distribution? How have bureaucrats overregulated the economy? Did Right to Work laws really decrease unionization? Why were undocumented immigrants able to return to work faster than natives during Covid-19? And, how does a husband's death impact a widow's use of time at home?

Christiaensen, Luc / Lozano, Nancy (eds.), Migrants, Markets, and Mayors: Rising above the Employment Challenge in Africa's Secondary Cities. (Africa Development Forum) 180 pp. 2022:12 (World Bank, US) <684-295>
ISBN 978-1-4648-1903-2 paper ¥7,879.- (税込) US$ 43.95 *

In a rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their cities' labor markets and a threat to their development. Drawing on national household surveys and four secondary city case studies in Africa, this report finds that migrants can strengthen the urban labor force.

Bonvin, Jean-Michel / Cianferoni, Nicola / Mexi, M. (eds.), Social Dialogue in the Gig Economy: A Comparative Empirical Analysis. 160 pp. 2023:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <684-238>
ISBN 978-1-80037-236-8 hard ¥20,152.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

As our digital economy continues to expand, gig work becomes increasingly significant. This incisive book investigates the ways in which social dialogue can reinforce decent working practices and create inclusive workplaces in the growing gig economy, putting forward a framework for structured dialogue and collective bargaining among social partners, platforms, and workers.Centred on four major case studies - Germany, Greece, Switzerland, and the UK - the book analyses the key challenges that characterise the varied European landscape of gig economies and workforces. With a particular focus on the hospitality, driving, and food delivery sectors, chapters explore the intersection of social partners' responses and gig workers' capacity to organise and build collective voice. Examining the complicated and overlapping linkages between workers' rights, social protection, social dialogue, and decent work, the book aims to expose, and ultimately put an end to, precariousness and exploitation in the context of gig labour.Integrating critical theoretical perspectives and methodologies with context-sensitive evidence, this book will be an essential resource for students and scholars of sociology, social policy, labour policy, employment relations, and human resource management. Its examination of timely questions of collective action and social dialogue in the gig economy will also appeal to activists, journalists, social partners, and policymakers.

Ryan, Mary Meghan (ed.), Employment, Hours, and Earnings 2022: States and Area. 17th ed. 614 pp. 2022:10 (Bernan Pr., US) <684-261>
ISBN 978-1-63671-070-9 paper ¥26,878.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Bernan Press proudly presents the sixteenth edition of Employment, Hours, and Earnings: States and Areas, 2022. A special addition to Bernan Press Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data, this reference is a consolidated wealth of employment information, providing monthly and annual data on hours worked and earnings made by industry, including figures and summary information spanning several years. These data are presented for states and metropolitan statistical areas.This edition features:Nearly 300 tables with data on employment for each state, the District of Columbia, and the nation's seventy-five largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)Detailed, non-seasonally adjusted, industry data organized by month and yearHours and earnings data for each state, by industryAn introduction for each state and the District of Columbia that denotes salient data and noteworthy trends, including changes in population and the civilian labor force, industry increases and declines, employment and unemployment statistics, and a chart detailing employment percentages, by industryRanking of the seventy-five largest MSAs, including census population estimates, unemployment rates, and the percent change in total nonfarm employment,Concise technical notes that explain pertinent facts about the data, including sources, definitions, and significant changes; and provides references for further guidanceA comprehensive appendix that details the geographical components of the seventy-five largest MSAsThe employment, hours, and earnings data in this publication provide a detailed and timely picture of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the nation's seventy-five largest MSAs. These data can be used to analyze key factors affecting state and local economies and to compare national cyclical trends to local-level economic activity.This reference is an excellent source of information for analysts in both the public and private sectors. Readers who are involved in public policy can use these data to determine the health of the economy, to clearly identify which sectors are growing and which are declining, and to determine the need for federal assistance. State and local jurisdictions can use the data to determine the need for services, including training and unemployment assistance, and for planning and budgetary purposes. In addition, the data can be used to forecast tax revenue. In private industry, the data can be used by business owners to compare their business to the economy as a whole; and to identify suitable areas when making decisions about plant locations, wholesale and retail trade outlets, and for locating a particular sector base.

Mahmood, Moazam, Growth, Jobs and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: No Country Left Behind. 138 pp. 2022:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-210>
ISBN 978-3-030-91573-5 hard ¥21,887.- (税込) EUR 99.99

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is in danger of being significantly left behind other regions of the world economically. Growth in SSA has been much weaker and more volatile than in other regions in the last two decades. The region contains most of the world's least developed countries: they have the lowest per capita incomes, they are structurally less developed, they are aid- (and often) food-dependent, and have the largest and deepest pockets of poverty left in the world. Meanwhile, in other developing regions of the world, such as Latin America and Asia, there has been much more progress on all these important indicators of growth and welfare. SSA alone failed to meet the challenge of halving poverty to meet its Millennium Development Goals for 2015, and is in now serious danger of not meeting its Sustainable Development Goals to eliminate poverty by 2030. This Palgrave Pivot provides a narrative for SSA that brings together growth, jobs and poverty reduction.

労働市場における母親
Molina, Jose Alberto (ed.), Mothers in the Labor Market. 269 pp. 2022:5 (Springer, GW) <682-262>
ISBN 978-3-030-99779-3 hard ¥24,076.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

This book describes the social and economic issues that emerge from mothers in labor markets. It provides insight in what the quantitative effect of motherhood on the decline in mothers' earnings is, and how things differ for mothers with lower income and lower levels of education. It also sheds light on how this effect varies for different countries and/or cultural areas, and what the impact of socio-economic policies on mothers' labor supply is and how it changes in different family contexts. The book covers topics such as labor participation and hours of work, paid-work and home production, flexibility and work from home, self-employment and entrepreneurship, fertility and maternity leave, wage-penalty and career interruption, labor supply and childcare, gender norms and cultural issues, intra-household wage inequality and much more. This book provides an interesting read to economists, social scientists, policy makers and HR managers and all those interested in the subject.

Block, Sharon / Harris, Benjamin H. (eds.), Inequality and the Labor Market: The Case for Greater Competition. 261 pp. 2021:4 (Brookings Institution Pr., US) <680-292>
ISBN 978-0-8157-3880-0 paper ¥7,563.- (税込) US$ 37.99 *

Goldsmith, Stephen / Coleman, Kate Markin, Growing Fairly: How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development. 220 pp. 2022:2 (Brookings Institution Pr., US) <680-293>
ISBN 978-0-8157-3948-7 paper ¥6,568.- (税込) US$ 32.99 *

Goulart, Pedro / Ramos, Raul / Ferrittu, Gianluca (eds.), Global Labour in Distress. Volume I: Globalization, Technology and Labour Resilience. (Palgrave Readers in Economics) 329 pp. 2022:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <680-294>
ISBN 978-3-030-89257-9 hard ¥32,832.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

The first volume focuses on globalization, international migration, employment, labour agency, technological change, and labour resilience. This book aims to examine how labour institutions, both in developed and developing countries, have responded to the challenges faced over the last 30 years. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in labour economics, political economy, and development economics.

Goulart, Pedro / Ramos, Raul / Ferrittu, Gianluca (eds.), Global Labour in Distress. Volume II: Earnings, (In)decent Work and Institutions. (Palgrave Readers in Economics) 329 pp. 2022:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <680-295>
ISBN 978-3-030-89264-7 hard ¥32,832.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

This book, the second of two volumes, explores the transformations to the labour market observed since the offi cial end of the Cold War in 1991. This period is defi ned by the retreat of the state and a move towards more market-based economies, followed by a State comeback with the Great Recession. These bumpy decades for labour and changing labour policies are analysed thematically. The second volume focuses on labour earnings and inequality, underemployment, (in)decent work, and labour market policies. This book aims to examine how labour institutions, both in developed and developing countries, have responded to the challenges faced over the last 30 years. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in labour economics, political economy, and development economics.

Qureshi, Zia / Woo, Cheonsik (eds.), Shifting Paradigms: Growth, Finance, Jobs, and Inequality in the Digital Economy. 240 pp. 2022:1 (Brookings Institution Pr., US) <680-209>
ISBN 978-0-8157-3900-5 paper ¥6,966.- (税込) US$ 34.99 *

Berkman, Lisa F. / Truesdale, Beth C. (eds.), Overtime: America's Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. 344 pp. 2022:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <679-330>
ISBN 978-0-19-751206-7 hard ¥6,957.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

America is at a crossroads in its approach to work and retirement. Many policymakers think it's logical-almost inevitable-that Americans will delay retirement and spend more years in the paid labor force. But it's an assumption that doesn't match the reality faced by a large and growing proportion of Americans. Though in many ways today's middle-aged adults are less financially prepared for retirement than today's retirees, precarious working conditions, family caregiving responsibilities, poor health, and age discrimination will make it difficult or impossible for many to work longer. Overtime offers a current, revelatory corrective to our understanding of the future of the American workforce and aging. Experts across economics, sociology, psychology, political science, and epidemiology examine how increasing economic and social inequalities, coupled with changes across generations or birth cohorts, call for a rethinking of the working-longer policy framework. The contributors examine trends and inequalities in employment, health, family dynamics, and politics, helping to shed light on the challenges faced by traditionally marginalized social groups while showing that our society's responses to an aging workforce affect us all. Together, they argue that policies affecting work must be considered alongside policies affecting retirement and provide a path forward to achieve better retirement security for all Americans. Drawing on the deep and varied expertise of its contributors, Overtime critically questions the conventional thinking of policy makers in this space to chart a more likely course for older Americans in the twenty-first century-one less reductive than simply "working longer."