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Pandiella, Alberto González - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

ready. The Irish economy is shifting away from bricks and mortar towards knowledge-based services, and those previously …

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Knowledge and Structure

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …

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Policy Options to Durably Resolve Euro Area Imbalances

Guillemette, Yvan; Turner, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

net external debt levels. In Spain and Portugal, cost competitiveness relative to the rest of the euro area would need to … structurels à des balances compatibles avec des niveaux durables de dette extérieure nette. L’Espagne et le Portugal …

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Economic Uncertainties and their Impact on Activity in Greece compared with Ireland and Portugal

Schneider, Jan-David; Giorno, Claude - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

presents a brief empirical analysis quantifying this phenomenon and compares it with developments in Ireland and Portugal …, although stronger than in Ireland or Portugal. This quantification appears to be robust to various specification changes of the …'Irlande et le Portugal<BR>Les incertitudes auxquelles sont confrontés les ménages et les entreprises affectent l …

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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...

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Political Involvement and Apathy in Europe 1973 - 1998

Deth, Jan van; Elff, Martin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

Many studies have underlined the existence of clear and persistent differences in the levels of political interest among European citizens. In this report these differences and developments in political involvement and political apathy are described and analysed, and conventional explanations in...

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Crescimento Econ\363mico no P\363s-guerra: os Casos de Espanha, Portugal e Irlanda

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2002

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When Institutions Matter: Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe, 1950-95

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998

During the early post-war period, Western trade union movements grew in membership and achieved an institutionalized role in industrial relations and politics. However, during the last decades, many trade unions have seen their membership decline as they came increasingly under pressures due to...

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Die Entwicklung selbständiger Erwerbstätigkeit in Westeuropa und den USA 1960-1995

Luber, Silvia; Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1997

Self-employment still forms an important element in the social structure of modern societies. However, the group of the self-employed has experienced an enormous economic and social change. After a long term decline until the beginning of the 1970s in almost all industrialised countries,...

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Politicisation and Political Interest in Europe: A Multi-Level Approach

Deth, Jan W. van; Elff, Martin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2001

Political interest of citizens usually is depicted as an individual attribute that can be explained by referring to the resources and skills of the people concerned. The analyses presented here are based on a critical assessment of the explanatory power of these approaches in cross-national and...

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