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The labour market and economic development of Taiwan
Li, Cheng (ed.) - 2007
The debate on whether high standards of labour market legislation affect economic growth and the rate of employment is topical and important. The contributors to this book address three main issues: * how Taiwan's labour market was able to work so well prior to 1996, maintaining full employment...
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Recruitment, retention, and retirement in higher education : building and managing the faculty of the future
Ma, Jennifer (contributor); Clark, Robert Louis (contributor) - 2005
, rapid increases in health care costs and trends in retiree health insurance, and adoption of phased and early retirement … health plans on faculty retirement decisions -- 8. Faculty recruitment, retention and retirement : a case study of human … resources policymaking at Syracuse University -- 9. The value of phased retirement -- 10. Faculty retirement inventives by …
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Contracts and trust in alliances : discovering, creating and appropriating value
Vlaar, Paul W. L. - 2008
Paul Vlaar contends that strategic alliances and other forms of cooperation, such as buyer-supplier relationships, joint ventures and offshoring initiatives, increasingly stand at the basis of competitive advantage. Although contracts and trust play a crucial role in such relationships, prior...
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The economics of the apprenticeship system
Smits, Wendy; Stromback, Thorsten - 2001
The past ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in the apprenticeship system of industrial training. Employers have been shown to carry a large part of the cost of essentially general training with apparent little return to the firm - a problem which has generated a wide range of literature...
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Pension reform and economic theory : a non-orthodox analysis
Cesaratto, Sergio - 2005
The book is the first of its kind to attempt to deal with the economics of pensions and ageing on the basis of a rigorous theoretical framework alternative to neoclassical economics. Sergio Cesaratto breaks the dominant conformism in the current pension debate and explains that the strength of...
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The economics of contracts
Bolton, Patrick (contributor) - 2008
The Economics of Contracts provides a guided tour to the leading ideas in contract theory. It assembles some of the foundational writings on contracting under limited and asymmetric information, incentives and mechanism design. It contains, in particular, the key contributions of five recent...
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Advances in evolutionary institutional economics : evolutionary mechanisms, non-knowledge and strategy
Hanappi, Gerhard (ed.); Elsner, Wolfram (ed.) - 2008
Some famous pioneers together with the most promising new practitioners in the field show within this book how they define their subject. This is an authoritative survey of important branches of evolutionary economics, containing innovative new perspectives on market dynamics and evolutionary...
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The new institutional economics of markets
Furubotn, Eirik Grundtvig (contributor);  … - 2010
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Handbook on the economics of discrimination
Rodgers, William M. (contributor) - 2006
Discrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its magnitude, causes, or remedies. Despite some gains in our understanding, these remain active areas of debate among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. The specially...
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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 … fixed interest portfolios / Geoffrey Brianton -- The role of index funds in retirement asset allocation / David R. Gallagher … -- Retirement wealth and lifetime earnings variability / Olivia S. Mitchell, John W.R. Phillips, Andrew Au and David McCarthy -- How …
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