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This innovative book presents a series of up-to-date analyses of the economics of outdoor recreation. The distinguished group of authors covers real-world recreation management issues and applies economic understanding to these problems. An extensive introduction by the editors details the...
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the growth of cities by the use of endogenous growth theory …
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The question of why citizens pay their taxes has attracted increased attention in the tax compliance literature of late. In this book, Benno Torgler considers the evidence that suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance within society. To attempt to...
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Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm capabilities - the central argument of the book is that the...
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appraisal of how far current economic analysis and theory can deal with this key policy issue. The Economics of Technology and …
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As the world entered the twenty-first century, global skill shortages in many occupations were evident throughout the world. While these were mitigated by a global recession, there is no generally agreed upon method for measuring these shortages. This book discusses various theories for...
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What is the potential of the new information and communication technologies? This book assesses the relationship between technological change and employment in all its dimensions, focusing on contemporary economies in Europe. The authors discuss patterns of growth, and the type of employment...
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-88 -- Michael Piore (1971), 'The Dual Labor Market: Theory and Implications', in David M. Gordon (ed) (ed.), Problems in Political …. Edwards (1973), 'A Theory of Labor Market Segmentation', American Economic Review, 63 (2), May, 359-65 -- David M. Gordon …, 28 (4), July, 508-23 -- Glen G. Cain (1976), 'The Challenge of Segmented Labor Market Theories to Orthodox Theory: A …
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This book was born from the editor's conviction that a wide set of contributors should provide the economic and corporate sectors with guidelines, developed from rigorous research and case studies, to analyse those adjustments made necessary through international terrorism, as known since...
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This is the second of two volumes of case studies that illustrate how environmental economists place values on environmental assets and on the flows of goods and services generated by those assets. This important book assembles studies that discuss broad areas of application of economic...
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