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Download full textWerner, Heinz – 1998
On average, unemployed U.S. citizens remain jobless for much less time than their European counterparts do. The relatively low level of unemployment in the United States is attributable to two factors: a social protection system that offers far less protection than those in Western Europe do and a broad range of job openings. The fact that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Brown, Richard K., Ed. – 1997
This book contains nine papers that were presented to the Sociology and Social Policy section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The first paper, "Introduction: Work and Employment in the 1990s" (Richard Brown), puts work and employment in a historical context and examines how globalization of the economy has…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Economic Change, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
