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Firms, governments, and climate policy : incentive-based policies for long-term climate change

Carraro, Carlo (contributor); … - 2003

climate change and sign up to international climate agreements. In doing so, the authors address a multitude of related issues … barriers of the Kyoto Protocol for industry; and the incentives for firms to undertake climate-related R&D and investments. As … implement climate agreements …

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Instruments for climate policy : limited versus unlimited flexibility

Albrecht, Johan (contributor) - 2002

Instruments for Climate Policy focuses on economic and political aspects related to the recent proposals and the debate … on limits in flexibility, and discusses EU and US perspectives on climate policy instruments and strategies. This is … flexibility', on the arguments behind the EU ceilings proposal and on voluntary approaches to climate policy. One of the main …

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Research companion to the dysfunctional workplace : management challenges and symptoms

Langan-Fox, Janice (contributor); … - 2007

A work exposing and exploring the phenomena of the dysfunctional workplace is long overdue. This fascinating book does just that, uncovering the subversiveness, counter-productive behaviour and unspoken 'issues' that managers struggle with on a daily basis

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Economic performance in the Americas : the role of the service sector in Brazil, Mexico and the USA

Mulder, Nanno - 2002

. Transport and communications -- 5. Wholesale and retail trade -- 6. Financial services -- 7. Health care -- 8. Education -- 9 …

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

Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001

The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...

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Productivity, innovation, and knowledge in services : new economic and socio-economic approaches

Gallouj, Fai͏̈z (contributor); Gadrey, J. (contributor) - 2002

Written by some of the most distinguished authors in the field, this book elucidates the critical and complex relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain service productivity and innovation, and call for a...

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Growth, unemployment, and deindustrialization

Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2000

The sectoral composition of economies is fundamental to the understanding of growth, unemployment and the relative performance of nations. Henri de Groot models the relationship between these four factors from a single theoretical perspective in order to determine the foundations of the wealth...

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Ageing and the labor market in Japan : problems and policies

Hamada, Kōichi (contributor); Katō, Hiromi (contributor) - 2007

1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor supply of the elderly and females -- 3. Labor force ageing and economic growth in Japan -- 4. Ageing and elderly care in an open economy -- 5. Immigration vs. foreign...

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Taxing the working poor : the political origins and economic consequences of taxing low wages

Kemmerling, Achim - 2009

In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market

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Labour supply and incentives to work in Europe

Gómez Salvador, Ramón (contributor) - What explains the pattern of labour supply in Europe … - 2005

Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe highlights recent developments in the labour supply in Europe and gives a detailed assessment of their link with economic policies and labour market institutions. Despite major changes in European labour supply during the past few decades, the...

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