This handbook provides an integrated picture of knowledge about the economic and social behaviors and interactions of human beings on markets, in households, in companies and in societies. With a core basis in labor economics, human resources, demography and econometrics, it contains a large and complete summary and evaluation of the scientific state of the art. It relates to relevant fields in law, behavioral science, psychology, health, biology, sociology and political science, among others, where basic human processes are considered. Long survey chapters on core knowledge are combined with shorter frontier research chapters and those with a clear policy perspective.
Section Editors
Prof. M. Niaz Asadullah
University of Malaya
Faculty Of Economics And Administration
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
University of Oxford
Centre on Skills, Knowledge & Organisational Performance
Oxford
UK
University of Reading
Dept of Economics
Reading
UK
University of Manchester
School of Education, Environment and Development (SEED),
Manchester
UK
IZA Institute of Labor Economics
Bonn
Germany
Section: Development and Labor
Dr. Nick Drydakis
Anglia Ruskin University
School of Economics and International Business, Centre for Pluralist Economics, Faculty of Business and Law
Cambridge
UK
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Cambridge
UK
University of Cambridge
Centre for Science and Policy
Cambridge
UK
Institute for the Study of Labor
Bonn
Germany
Global Labor Organization
Essen
Germany
Section: Gender
Prof. Gil Epstein
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat Gan
Israel
Section: Political Economy (of Human Resources)
Prof. Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Syracuse University
Center for Policy Research; Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Syracuse, NY
USA
Section: Methods and Data
Prof. Colm Harmon
University of Edinburgh
Old College
Edinburgh EH8 9YL
UK
Section: Education: Schooling: Human Capital
Uwe Jirjahn
University of Trier
Trier
Germany
Section: Worker representation, labor-management relations; labor standards
Prof. Dave E. MarcotteAmerican University
Department of Public Administration and Policy Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs
Washington, DC
USA
Section: Risky behaviors
Dr Milena NikolovaUniversity of Groningen
Faculty of Economics and Business
Groningen
The Netherlands
http://www.milena-nikolova.com
Section: Welfare, Well-Being, Happiness
Dr. Olga Popova
Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS)
Landshuter Str.4
93047 Regensburg
Germany
Section: Religion
Prof. Enrico Rettore
University of Padova
Department of Economics and management
Padova
Italy
Section: Program Evaluation
Dr. Eva M. Sierminska
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
Esch-sur-Alzette, Belval
Luxembourg
Section: Inequality and Poverty
Prof. Kompal Sinha
Macquarie University
Department of Economics
Balaclava Rd
Sydney 2109, NSW
Australia
Section: Health
Prof. Marie Claire Villeval
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Lyon
GATE UMR 5824
Ecully, Lyon
France
CORTEX Laboratory of Excellence
Lyon
France
Section: Behavioral Economics
Prof. Victoria Vernon
SUNY Empire State College
Department of Accounting, Economics & Finance
325 Hudson Street
New York
NY 10013
USA
Section: Household Economics
Prof. Dr. Marco Vivarelli
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Department of Economic Policy
Milan
Italy
Section: Technological Changes and the Labor Market
Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann
Princeton University
Department of Economics
Princeton
USA
Maastricht University
Center for Population, Development and Labour Economics at UNU – MERIT
Maastricht
The Netherlands
University of Bonn
Bonn
Germany
Section: Migration