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The minimum wage revisited in the enlarged EU

Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel (contributor) - 2010

This book provides in-depth and innovative analysis of the minimum wage in Europe. The authors explore its role and scope within the enlarged EU, and address the question of whether there should be harmonization between the individual member states or even a common EU minimum wage. They also...

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The living wage : lessons from the history of economic thought

Stabile, Donald - 2008

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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Tax and transfer policy using behavioural microsimulation modelling : design and evaluation

Creedy, John; Mok, Penny - 2022

"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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Cross-national appropriation of work systems : Japanese firms in the UK

Saka, Ayse - 2003

The diffusion of work processes across countries through foreign direct investment and technological collaborations is an increasingly important practice in today's global economy. Ayse Saka explores this process both by focusing on the role of actors in appropriating different ways of operating...

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Handbook of banking regulation and supervision in the United Kingdom

Hall, Maximilian J. B. - 1999 - 3rd ed

Max Hall offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition of his classic handbook on the evolution and structure of UK …pt. 1. The evolution of supervisory practice -- pt. 2. The structure of UK banking supervision …

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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record

Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001

1. Introduction -- 2. Selection of the sample -- 3. The intertemporal labour productivity comparisons -- 4. US-UK …The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 … industries' labour productivity growth was significantly faster than that of the private sector industries. Strikingly, he also …

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Utility privatization and regulation : a fair deal for consumers?

Ugaz, Cecilia (contributor); … - 2003

material from four Latin American countries - Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru - and two European countries - Spain and the UK …

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Energy in a competitive market : essays in honour of Colin Robinson

Robinson, Colin (contributor); Hunt, Lester C. (contributor) - 2003

-- 6. UK coal in competitive energy markets -- 7. Economists and the oil industry : facts versus analysis, the case of … vertical integration -- 8. The economics of field cluster developments in the UK continental shelf -- 9. Modelling underlying … development? -- 11. UK emissions targets : modelling incentive mechanisms …

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Regulating utilities and promoting competition : lessons for the future

Robinson, Colin (contributor) - 2006

in gas and prospects for UK gas supplies / Nigel Cornwall -- 3. The economics and politics of wind power / David Simpson …

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Refining regulatory regimes : utilities in Europe

Windhoff-Héritier, Adrienne (contributor); … - 2005

With regulation seeking to foster competition at the same time as also having to protect essential services, the authors investigate regulatory styles, costs of new regulatory functions and how firms in the new regulatory landscape access and influence regulatory authorities. The authors...

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