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"This timely book explores how Northern European countries have sought to balance their welfare states with increased levels of migration from low-income countries outside the EU. Using case studies of the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, leading scholars analyse the varying approaches...
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1. Ethnic minorities in the European Union : an overview / Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus F. Zimmermann -- 2. An expert stakeholder's view on European integration challenges / Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann -- 3. The practice of minority integration in the...
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Combining both academic and practitioner perspectives, this book provides authoritative insights into the integration of European labour markets against the background of increasing international labour mobility
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Along with environmental impact assessment, social impact assessment (SIA) has its origins in the 1970s and has developed from being a tool to meet regulatory requirements, to a discipline that seeks to contribute proactively to better project and policy development and to enhance the wellbeing...
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"Evaluating the myriad dimensions of how disasters can affect economic activity and decision-making, this cutting-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in research on disaster economics, internationally...
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This Handbook brings together a range of viewpoints on a number of the burning issues affecting urban sustainability in North America and Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. H.S. Geyer and his contributors cover a wide spectrum of the urban policy issues that determine the growth and...
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Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa -- Population aging, changing retirement policies and lifetime earnings profiles in Japan / Robert Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, Rikiya Matsukura -- Firm productivity, work-force age and educational...
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Trade reforms and poverty-- the case of Cambodia / Isidro Soloaga -- International exposure, unionization, and market concentration-- the effects on factor use and firm productivity in Uruguay / Carlos Casacuberta, Gabriela Fachola and Néstor Gandelman -- Trade capacity building in Sub-Saharan...
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This essential volume examines the influence of immigrants on the process of international economic integration--specifically, their influences on bilateral and multilateral trade flows. It extends beyond the identification and explanation of the immigrant-trade link and offers a more expansive...
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