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Author
Series
IMF working paper volume WP/12/65
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Digital Frontier Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Examines how information technologies are affecting jobs, skills, wages, and the economy. As one of the most important forces in the economy today, digital technologies are transforming the world of work and are key drivers of productivity and growth.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Ruby Lu's father loses his job on her first day of third grade, which causes many things in her life to change, and she is willing to do a lot to help out but giving up some things seems impossible.
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"From the 1960s onwards, Japan's rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably low youth unemployment. However, since the 1990s the ease with which young people have historically moved from education to employment has ended, and unemployment is now a real and growing problem in contemporary Japan. This book examines how the state, experts, the media as well as youth workers, have responded to the troubling rise of youth joblessness in 21st century...
Author
Series
European anthropology in translation volume Volume 6
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
93) Unemployment, welfare, and masculine citizenship: "so much honest poverty" in Britain, 1870-1930
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Series
Research in labor economics volume 38
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fianče, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange - though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall...
Language
English
Description
In the year 2000, Dick gets a plum promotion as a mega-corporate communications director. His boss is preparing to bail out of the company just before stock prices plummet. Dick's wife Jane has quit her job as a travel agent, so when the corporate stocks hit rock bottom, Dick and Jane are left penniless and desperate. They decide to resort to petty thievery and this eventually gets them plotting high-stakes revenge against the greedy executives who...