Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
How Well Do They Fare?
Of interest to readers and policymakers in countries that receive migrants through family reunion and manpower admission schemes from low-income countries and strive to assimilate them into their communities, this book presents a case study of the integration of migrants from Mainland China in Hong Kong. It shows that early optimism of quick economic assimilation has given way to a more realistic view of a long, arduous process extending to the second generation. While the case of Hong Kong is unique in a number of ways, the book serves as…
This case study of migrants in Hong Kong shows early optimism for quick assimilation has given way to a long, arduous process extending to the second generation. It serves as a useful policy reference for countries balancing family reunion with the admission of skilled migrants.
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This book on economic security is particularly timely as the world economy confronts difficult challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and high inflation rates that may trigger financial crisis and concerns about likely recession in national economies and societies across the globe. Economic security is a valuable, influential and multi-dimensional subject of intellectual inquiry in the social sciences and interdisciplinary fields. This book explores multifaceted perspectives on economic security from the standpoint of sustainability, labour, economic diplomacy, global development and fragile states. As a useful guide for learners, researchers and…
This timely book on economic security confronts challenges like inflation and recession. It explores multifaceted perspectives on sustainability, labour, economic diplomacy, and global development, serving as a useful guide for learners, researchers, and practitioners worldwide.
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The rapid development of economic globalisation has caused enterprises to have a higher demand for high-quality employees in order to achieve competitive advantages. This has brought a significant challenge to human resource management. As employees are the imperative group in enterprises for gaining profit and maintaining regular operation, it is critical to raise their enthusiasm for work. Their creativity and subjective initiative could be fully activated, and the profit determination would increase if the appropriate motivating methods were utilised. As such, this collection offers detailed insights into these issues. It…
To gain a competitive advantage, enterprises must motivate their employees. This collection scrutinises how motivation, leadership, and corporate values impact human resource management, and how organisational identity plays a key role in driving corporate success.
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The New Economic Approach (NEA) has revolutionized economic disciplines by positing many social and political issues as endogenous variables, and makes rigorous and scientific analysis possible through a neo-classical framework. The NEA unravels familial behaviour, fertility, marriage, altruism, discrimination, dowry, love, crime and punishment and addiction. This new approach has been revolutionary in that it accommodates tools and theories that move beyond the neoclassical framework. The new political economy, pressure groups, rent-seeking and organ donation are but a few of the issues analysed with the aid of the public choice…
Revealing the power of the New Economic Approach, this volume applies rigorous analysis to complex social issues—from love and family to crime and addiction. An essential critical resource for academics, researchers, and policymakers.
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Labour Markets at a Crossroads
Causes of Change, Challenges and Need to Reform
The European labour market models are at a crossroads. Almost all Western European countries have experienced a lack of job creation, productivity and growth for an extended period of time. There is a problem of unemployment overall, but most urgently for the young, for immigrants and for the disabled. There is a clear need for reform. This volume, Labour Markets at a Crossroads: Causes of Change, Challenges and Need to Reform, investigates a number of vital aspects of the European labour markets and the challenges they face. The chapters give…
Stagnant European labour markets are failing to create jobs and growth. This volume uncovers the “corporative cartels” at the heart of the problem and presents clear policy options for vital reform.
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Entrepreneurship and Employment in the Caribbean Community
Policies for Hydrocarbon-Rich Countries
Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), Guyana, and Suriname, are Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States that are fortunate to be endowed with commercial reserves of hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbon revenues acquired by the respective governments can be used to fund the cost of several merit goods, amongst which the most commendable is the expenditure on education. This book’s objectives are threefold. The first is to examine the labour market in the hydrocarbon-rich CARICOM Member States. The second is the review of successful case studies of entrepreneurship in countries similar circumstances to the…
This book examines the labour market in hydrocarbon-rich CARICOM states. It reviews successful entrepreneurship case studies and provides policy recommendations to address employment problems, offering lessons for policymakers in mineral-rich countries.
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Workplace health promotion and well-being are essential for raising awareness about potential health risks, and helping workers avoid them in order to lead a more fulfilling life. The present book presents the health risks that computer users are prone to and possible measures for the mitigation of said risks. For example, the book outlines the effects of different spa treatments for relieving muscular tension, which can be a side effect of the sedentary nature of computer use in the workplace. In addition to physical inactivity, computer users also suffer from…
Computer use creates health risks, from muscular tension and poor diet to mental stress and Zoom fatigue. This book offers practical measures for employees and employers, with recommendations on diet, physical activity, and healthier online meetings.
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Innovation and employment can be a good marriage. Following on from an analysis of the classical economists, the author challenges the old paradigm of ‘innovation means unemployment’, which has dominated the economic debate for centuries. Is it possible to promote technological change as well as innovation and employment? At what point do technological change and innovation become labour friendly? These are among the topics examined in detail in the enclosed essays. This book considers a set of EU countries in which the results leave no doubts: innovation and employment can…
As Vicini shows here, innovation and employment can be a good marriage, using an analysis of classical economists to challenge the old paradigm of ‘innovation means unemployment’, which has dominated economic debate for centuries.
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This book is a clarion call for national, state, and local transformational change. The goal is to substantially increase the employment participation rates of working-age youth and adults with disabilities so they can successfully contribute their unique skills and talents. The book advances the case that disability policymakers, organizational leaders, educators, people with disabilities, family members, disability service professionals, business leaders, and community members must work together to reimagine how future supports will be delivered. The chapter content identifies innovative, researched practices known to increase competitive employment and social inclusion…
This book is a call for transformational change to increase employment for people with disabilities. It argues that we must work together to reimagine supports, using innovative practices. The Death of Rehabilitation is not an end to services. It is a rebirth.
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This volume includes a considerable amount of material to provide a clear structure to a most wide-ranging and complex set of materials concerning female labour in West Papua. This is one of the most innovative and useful books published about the female labour supply in developing countries in recent years. This book provides an empirical analysis of indigenous and non-indigenous female labour and economic development in West Papua. Following a conceptual introduction, which critically examines the theoretical debates of female labour supply and economic development, the book is structured around…
This innovative book provides an empirical analysis of indigenous and non-indigenous female labour and economic development in West Papua, examining the key determinants of female labour force participation.
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