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Economic performance in the Americas : the role of the service sector in Brazil, Mexico and the USA
Mulder, Nanno - 2002
Economic Performance in the Americas compares the economic performances of Brazil, Mexico and the USA over the past … both the main trends in the various service industries in Brazil and Mexico and the underlying forces shaping their huge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850812
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Economic liberalization, distribution, and poverty : Latin America in the 1990s
Taylor, Lance (contributor); Vos, Rob (contributor);  … - 2002
: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru … Frenkel and Martín González Rozada -- 4. Brazil : economic opening and income distribution / Ricardo Paes de Barros and Carlos … Henrique Corseuil -- 5. Chile : trade liberalization, employment and inequality / José de Gregorio ... [et al.] -- 6 Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852091
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The economics of health care in Asia-Pacific countries
Hu, Teh-wei (ed.); Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (ed.) - 2002
In order to control ever-increasing health care expenditure, Western and Asian countries are seeking to develop more efficient health care models. Studies on health care that focus specifically on Asian countries are rare, rendering this a unique and welcome addition to the literature. This book...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474098
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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record
Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001
The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851212
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The economics of health behaviours
Kenkel, Donald Scott (contributor);  … - 2008
and Phillip B. Levine (2003), 'Maternal Employment and Overweight Children', Journal of Health Economics, 22 (3), May, 477 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852231
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Industrial agglomeration and new technologies : a global perspective
Tsuji, Masatsugu (contributor);  … - 2007
China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, the USA and Vietnam. Significantly, the book provides an interesting split between …, international migration and foreign trade / Andrew Schrank -- Mexico : the management revolution and the emergence of the software …This book, a collaborative effort by researchers from Japan, Italy and the USA, seeks to explore the reasons for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420058
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Research companion to the dysfunctional workplace : management challenges and symptoms
Langan-Fox, Janice (contributor);  … - 2007
A work exposing and exploring the phenomena of the dysfunctional workplace is long overdue. This fascinating book does just that, uncovering the subversiveness, counter-productive behaviour and unspoken 'issues' that managers struggle with on a daily basis
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419989
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Growth, unemployment, and deindustrialization
Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2000
dual labour market * the relative stagnancy of Europe versus the USA in terms of productivity levels and unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473896
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Productivity, innovation, and knowledge in services : new economic and socio-economic approaches
Gallouj, Fai͏̈z (contributor); Gadrey, Jean (contributor) - 2002
Written by some of the most distinguished authors in the field, this book elucidates the critical and complex relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain service productivity and innovation, and call for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851223
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Financial crises and recession in the global economy
Allen, Roy E. - 2016 - 4th ed
Introduction -- 1. Financial globalization since the 1970s -- 2. Financial instabilities and trends in the 1980s -- 3. Financial instabilities and trends in the 1990s -- 4. The 2007- crisis: common patterns and new thinking -- 5. A human ecology economics (HEE) framework for the analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419911