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Labour market adjustments in Europe
Messina, Julián (contributor) - 2006
The group of contributors in this book come from academia and international organizations in Europe and the USA. They focus on trade unions, which affect real-wage flexibility and the provision of training to workers. They also concentrate on employment protection legislation, which discourages...
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Poverty targeting in Asia
Weiss, John (contributor) - 2005
's Republic of China, the Philippines and Thailand … the Philippines / Arsenio Balisacan and Rosemarie Edillon -- 7. Micro-finance and poverty reduction in Asia / John Weiss …
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The Asia recovery : issues and aspects of development, growth, trade and investment
Tran, Van Hoa (contributor) - 2001
This book explores in-depth the major issues and important aspects of this economic recovery and its potential impact on growth, development, trade and investment. Expert contributors also discuss the global directions in international economic and financial relations, corporate and public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852009
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The dynamics of regional development : the Philippines in East Asia
Balisacan, A. M. (ed.); Hill, Hal (ed.) - Asian Development Bank Institute - 2007
A decade and a half since the Philippines embarked on a major program of decentralization, the authors of this book … only for an audience interested in the Philippines - a large developing nation with a population soon to exceed 100 million … decentralization program in the Philippines has been reasonably successful, they argue there is an urgent need for a clear, predictable …
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Economic growth : new directions in theory and policy
Arestis, Philip (contributor);  … - 2007
business cycle and growth /Pedro Leão --A Keynesian model of unemployment and growth : theory /John Cornwall --A Keynesian … model of unemployment and growth : an empirical test /Wendy Cornwall --The relevance of the Cambridge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420046
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The evaluation of active labour market policies : measures, public private partnerships and benchmarking
Koning, Jaap de (contributor) - 2007
This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consider three means of doing so: improving the quality by better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420053
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Innovation, unemployment, and policy in the theories of growth and distribution
Salvadori, Neri (contributor); Balducci, Renato (contributor) - 2005
Innovation, Unemployment and Policy in the Theories of Growth and Distribution increases our understanding about the …
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Flexibility and employment security in Europe : labour markets in transition
Muffels, R. J. A. (contributor) - 2008
pt. 1. Labour market mobility and in-work transitions -- pt. 2. 'Scarring' effects of unemployment and non …
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Complexity, endogenous money and macroeconomic theory : essays in honour of Basil J. Moore
Moore, Basil J. (contributor); Setterfield, Mark (contributor) - 2006
macroeconomics of endogenous money -- pt. 4. The macroeconomics of exogenous interest rates -- pt. 5. Unemployment, inflation and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850869
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Labour market policy and unemployment : impact and process evaluations in selected European countries
Mosley, Hugh (contributor); Koning, Jaap de (contributor) - 2001
This book examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies and their contribution to the prevention of social exclusion. The evaluation studies reported in this volume focus on two aspects of active labour market policies that have been relatively neglected in previous research and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851438