Low-paid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among low-paid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution,...

What are the forces behind the increasing globalization of economic life? How does globalization affect the functioning of national economies? What difficulties confront government policymakers in dealing with the global economy? These issues are addressed in this volume by leading specialists....

The distinguished authors in this volume address the fundamental causes for such heterogeneous international experiences, placing particular emphasis on the role of institutions. They demonstrate how the study of economic development is increasingly linked to the development of institutions,...

Greener Taxes, Freer Trade? -- North-South Trade and Pollution Migration: The Debate Revisited -- Regulatory Competition, Transboundary Pollution and International Trade -- Modelling Commitment in Multi-Stage Models of Location, Trade and Environment -- International Competition and Investment...

In Governance, Multinationals and Growth, leading scholars celebrate and build upon the pioneering work of Edward Safarian on multinational enterprises and foreign direct investment. The book explores the linkages among multinationals and foreign direct investment, corporate and public...

During a distinguished career, Basil Moore has made numerous important contributions to macroeconomics and monetary economics, and is renowned as the progenitor of the "horizontalist" analysis of endogenous money. More recently, he has embraced complexity theory as part of an ongoing effort to...

Die demographische Entwicklung in Deutschland in den nächsten Dekaden und die EU-Osterweiterung haben zu einer heftigen Debatte über die zu erwartenden Konsequenzen für die Wirtschaftsentwicklung und Wirtschaftspolitik Deutschlands geführt. Die hier zusammengefassten Tagungsbeiträge...

A Review of Demographic Forecasting Models for Mortality -- A Review of Epidemiological Approaches to Forecasting Mortality and Morbidity -- Theoretical Perspectives on Forecasting Mortality -- A Regression Model of Mortality, with Application to the Netherlands -- Forecasting Mortality from...