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201by Fields, Gary S Published in Working Hard, Working Poor (14.12.2011)“...This chapter aims to educate the reader on the enormity of the world's poverty problem. Poverty rates in the world have fallen by half and yet serious poverty...”
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202by Fields, Gary S Published in Working Hard, Working Poor (14.12.2011)“...This chapter explores globalization in the twenty-first century and the nature of labor markets in today's globalized world. Four points are made: First, for...”
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203by Fields, Gary S Published in Working Hard, Working Poor (14.12.2011)“...This chapter aims to hook the reader on the lives of poor workers. It begins with a description of the author's visit to high-tech China. It then narrates his...”
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204by Fields, Gary S Published in Working Hard, Working Poor (14.12.2011)“...This chapter makes six points. First, policy makers have identified four key labor market policy objectives—create more jobs, raise the earnings of those...”
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205by Fields, Gary S Published in Working Hard, Working Poor (14.12.2011)“...This chapter aims to put human faces on four of the world's 3.1 billion poor people. The stories are told of a woman who hand-rolls cigarettes in India and...”
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206by Fields, Gary S Published in Working Hard, Working Poor (14.12.2011)“...In the countries in which the world's poor are concentrated, the great majority of working people are self-employed. As detailed in this chapter, a program to...”
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207“...Using a new data file on pay and pensions, this paper presents and discusses new empirical evidence on how olde rworkers' income opportunities change as they...”
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208“...This paper addresses two questions:(1) Are older persons' retirement ages significantly affected by the opportunities for income from earnings,private...”
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209“...Does retirement behavior react predictably to economic incentives? Evidence on this question would be useful to policy makers responsible for work and...”
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210“...This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of various labor market policies on economic...”
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212“...Traditionally, there have been two strands in the analysis of poverty, inequality and development - a micro strand that focuses on individual behavior, welfare...”
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214by Fields, Gary S Published in Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung (01.07.2012)“...Zusammenfassung Das Beschäftigungsproblem betrifft neben 200 Millionen Arbeitslosen auch über 900 Millionen prekär Beschäftigte oder Working Poor. Um zur...”
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216by Fields, Gary S Song, Yang Published in Discussion Paper Series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (2013)“...This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of various labor market policies on economic...”
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217“...In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market...”
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