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Knowledge, inequality, and growth in the new economy

Nahuis, Richard - 2003

During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today - information and communication technology (ICT) - does...

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Explaining the gender wage gap : the missing aspects of discrimination

Sielska, Alicja - 2023

women's lower earnings compared to men, such as risk aversion and the negotiation process. Chapters compare feminist and …

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Making and breaking gender inequalities in work

Rönnmar, Mia (ed.); Hayter, Susan (ed.) - 2024

"This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite the progress made through frameworks regulating work and employment relations, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated gender divides in labour markets. The authors present innovative ways to...

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Culture and the labour market

Austen, Siobhan - 2003

Culture and the Labour Market attempts to define the meaning of culture and the nature of its possible consequences on economic processes and outcomes. In particular, the book examines alternative theoretical and empirical approaches to the economic analysis of cultural effects in the labour...

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Tax policy and uncertainty : modelling debt projections and fiscal sustainability

Ball, Christopher; Creedy, John; Scobie, Grant McDonald - 2020

"Presenting innovative modelling approaches to the analysis of fiscal policy and government debt, this book moves beyond previous models that have relied upon the assumption that various age-specific rates and policy variables remain unchanged when it comes to generating government expenditures...

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Optimal monetary policy under uncertainty

Froyen, Richard T. - 2007

Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of optimal monetary policy under uncertainty. This book provides a thorough survey of the literature that has resulted from this renewed interest. The authors ground recent contributions on the 'science of monetary policy' in the...

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Retirement provision in scary markets

Bateman, Hazel (contributor) - 2007

Who's afraid of the big bad bear? : or, why investment in equities for retirement is not scary and why investing without equities is scary / Ronald Bewley, Nick Ingram, Veronica Livera and Sheridan Thompson -- Assessing the risks in global fixed interest portfolios / Geoffrey Brianton -- The...

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Incomplete markets

Magill, Michael J. P. (contributor); … - 2008

of Risk-Bearing', Review of Economic Studies, 31 (2), April, 91-6 -- Peter A. Diamond (1967), 'The Role of a Stock Market …), July, 1613-38 -- Fernando Alvarez and Urban J. Jermann (2000), 'Efficiency, Equilibrium, and Asset Pricing with Risk of …), 'The Risk-Free Rate in Heterogeneous-Agent, Incomplete-Insurance Economies', Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 17 …

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Insurance and risk management

Niehaus, Greg (contributor) - 2008

There is a broad range of literature on the economics of insurance and risk management. This timely publication … theory to many different insurance markets. It also offers important insights into the factors influencing corporate risk … management decisions, and the theoretical underpinnings for why corporations with well-diversified shareholders would reduce risk …

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The economics of environmental risk : information, perception and valuation

Smith, Vincent Kerry - 2022

"Featuring real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk … by officials providing information on risk and designing policies for managing them. Further consideration is also given … public policy, risk analysis and environmental and resource economics will value the useful examples found in this …

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