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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...
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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 that countries might expect to be created following the introduction of …
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shifts focus to part-time jobs / Wiemer Salverda -- 11. Poland: minimum wage, employment and labour migration / Jacek …
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For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill...
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"Combining theoretical and practical aspects of policy analysis, this book evaluates actual and proposed policy reforms to income tax and transfer systems, using a behavioural tax microsimulation model. It highlights how these models allow for the full details of tax systems and the considerable...
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1. Introduction and summary -- 2. World-wide-welfare : a micro-economic analysis of "The new economy" -- 3. Network formation, innovation and IT use -- 4. Adoption and diffusion of e-business and the role of network effects -- 5. Radio spectrum fees as determinants of market structure : the...
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-growth firms and their contribution to employment : the case of Sweden 1987-96 / Per Davidsson, Frédéric Delmar -- Arriving at the …
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this book, Kurt Kratena studies the employment effects of revenue neutral tax shifts from labour to energy, and measures … equilibrium model only finds employment double dividend effects. The book also highlights the potentially positive economic … appraisal of the general double dividend question combined with an innovative analysis of the employment double dividend effect …
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Recommended readings (Machine generated): Kenneth J. Arrow (1962), 'Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention', in Richard R. Nelson (ed.), The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors, Chapter 23, Princeton, New Jersey, USA: Princeton University...
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This book provides authoritative academic and professional insights into the effects of FDI on home and host countries. It highlights global trends and patterns, and explores related policy challenges all with a special focus on the countries in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The...
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