Product Description: RSMeans Labor Rates for the Construction Industry 2012 provides a quick, convenient way to obtain 2012 union wage rates for every major metropolitan area in the United States and Canada. Wage rates listed are the actual negotiated union rates or a reliable estimate for each of the 46 construction trades...read more

Product Description: Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them...read more

Product Description: Why do contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance everywhere "inefficient"? Why do they feel that corporate executives deserve no less than their multimillion-dollar "compensation" packages and workers no more than their meager wages? Here is a lively and accessible debunking of the two elements that make economics the “science” of the rich: the definition of what is efficient and the theory of how wages are determined...read more

Product Description: “Prioleau Alexander’s comic tales of quitting the rat race to find meaning have a deep lesson for all of us—get back in that race and run like hell!”—Stephen ColbertEver fantasized about quitting your job and starting over? Prioleau Alexander did just that...read more

Product Description: Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute has sold more than 250,000 copies because career professionals recommend it and it's better paid readers who applied the strategies, tell their friends. The 7th edition makes it easier than ever to put thousands of extra dollars into one's pocket because of the many key concepts that have been added to the "bible" of salary negotiations...read more

Product Description: In this tightly argued work William Coleman explores the macroeconomic implications of politically based restraints on competition in labour markets. Through a suite of compact models the author investigates the consequences of the labour force securing the best terms of sale for its labour by means of the electoral mechanism...read more

Product Description: Most managers assume that surviving, especially in recessions, requires slashing wages, benefits, and other workforce expenses. And lowest-skilled workers are often viewed as the most expendable.In Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder, Jody Heymann overturns these assumptions...read more

Product Description: This book analyzes wage hierarchy in market and planning theory, and how these theories can be used as a basis for the comparison of wage structures in Western and Soviet-type systems. The author analyzes statistical data from ten countries in both systems at the beginning of the eighties, and attempts to account for wage dispersion by examining such factors as education and training, discrimination against women, and market structure, as well as the influence of systemic factors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Corporatism or Competition? is concerned with the importance of institutions in determining labor market outcomes. There has been a great deal of research in the past ten years comparing wage differences, wage movements and employment behavior in different countries, none of which has been brought together in an organized and coherent fashion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Corporatism or Competition? is concerned with the importance of institutions in determining labor market outcomes. There has been a great deal of research in the past ten years comparing wage differences, wage movements and employment behavior in different countries, none of which has been brought together in an organized and coherent fashion...read more

Product Description: Prepare your students for career success with first-hand experience in calculating payroll, completing payroll taxes, and preparing payroll records and reports. The annual revision of Bieg/Toland's market-leading PAYROLL ACCOUNTING 2009 text addresses all of the latest laws and up-to-the-minute updates regarding payroll...read more

Product Description: This is the first study of Scottish price history to be published, and a major contribution to the economic and social history of early modern and pre-industrial Britain. Using the remarkable series of "fiars" prices for grains and other contemporary sources, Gibson and Smout focus, in particular, on the prices of grain, meal and animal products, and assess how Scots laborers could survive in an economy that could pay only very low money wages...read more

Product Description: You work hard every day and you know that your performance merits more money than you are currently making. But the rat race is making it next to impossible to ask for that raise you want. Job growth is slowing, salaries are tightening up, and you feel like you might miss your chance if you do not act soon do not feel alone...read more

Product Description: "Six-Figure Salary Negotiation" is the insider's guide to salary and benefit negotiation with wisdom and advice from six CEOs who are global experts in employment issues.The book takes a pragmatic and strategic approach to salary negotiations from determining one's value to interviewing and negotiating...read more

Product Description: Kenneth Lapides has plumbed Marx's extensive political economy, writing to present the first-ever full, consolidated statement of Marx's wage theory. Marx's Wage Theory in Historical Perspective is faithful to Marx's formulations, with frequent excerpts from Marx...read more

Product Description: This book provides an empirical and theoretical examination of the short- and medium run impacts of technological advances on the employment and wages of workers which differ in their earned educational degree. Furthermore, by introducing labor market frictions and wage setting institutions the author shows the importance of such imperfections in order to replicate empirical facts...read more

Product Description: The 2007 Edition of PAYROLL ACCOUNTING and its accompanying CDs gives you firsthand experience in calculating payroll, completing payroll taxes, and preparing records and reports. With its cutting-edge technology package and up-to-the minute information, this accounting textbook covers payroll laws and practices makes them relevant to today's business world...read more

Product Description: Southeast Asia's two largest economies, Indonesia and Thailand, have hosted a large number of foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) over the last decades. Understanding the economic effects of these MNCs is thus a priority for academics, policy makers and business professionals alike...read more

Product Description: This volume challenges the view that unemployment is exclusively determined by structural characteristics of the labour market and the social benefit system. Macroeconomic policies and investment in capital stock are included in the analysis and are shown to have a major role to play...read more

Product Description: Presents final annual employment and wage data for 2004.

Product Description: The 2006 Edition of PAYROLL ACCOUNTING gives you firsthand experience in calculating payroll, completing payroll taxes, and preparing records and reports. With its cutting-edge technology package and up-to-the minute information, Bieg continues to be the market-leading Payroll Accounting text...read more

120 best practices to improve the total process of the payroll departmentPayroll Best Practices examines, in great detail, best practices for the payroll function, and how to install them to provide readers with an in-depth knowledge of how this critical functional area can be improved. Here, controllers, payroll managers, and CFOs will discover the exact work plans needed to implement each best practice in their organizations, and lays out pitfalls likely to be encountered and avoided along the way.This how-to resource for payroll improvements includes:* Techniques for reducing the workload and error rate of the payroll staff* Methods for switching from an in-house to an outsourced payroll solution* Ways to create or outsource a Web-based timekeeping system* Approaches to switching to an employee-driven payroll deduction system* Graphics indicating the cost and implementation duration for each best practice* Policies and procedures that support the best practices* A simplified best practices implementation plan* An appendix that summarizes the large number of best practices presented* A glossary of key payroll-related terminology* And much more