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The international handbook on financial reform
Hall, Maximilian (contributor) - 2003
1. Financial reform in Australia -- 2. Price stabilization, the banking crisis and financial reform in Brazil -- 3 …. Financial reform in Canada : past, present and future -- 4. Financial system reform in China -- 5. Financial reform in Germany … developed and developing countries from Western Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia, written by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420082
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Aging and working in the new economy : changing career structures in small IT firms
McMullin, Julie Ann (contributor);  … - 2010
The case studies and analyses developed in this timely book provide insight into the structural features of small and medium-sized firms in the information technology sector, and the implications of these features for the careers of people who are employed by them
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850936
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Markets for carbon and power pricing in Europe : theoretical issues and empirical analyses
Gullì, Francesco (contributor) - 2008
Why do power prices seem to be correlated with the carbon price in some markets and not in others? This crucial question is at the centre of Francesco Gullì's enlightening book, through which the contributing authors investigate a number of related issues. In particular, they explore why power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851445
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Economic modelling of climate change and energy policies
Miguel, Carlos de (ed.); Labandeira Villot, Xavier (ed.);  … - Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics - 2006
Climate change and energy consumption are at the forefront of current environmental debate. Whilst energy is essential to the functioning and survival of our societies, the environmental impact that energy consumption is having, particularly on climate change, is a growing concern and the design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474010
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Financing decentralized expenditures : an international comparison of grants
Ahmad, Ehtisham (ed.) - 1997
Financing Decentralized Expenditures presents new original research papers on the structure of intergovernmental fiscal relations in virtually all types of countries and the design and implementation of transfer mechanisms between different levels of government. In developing, transition, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473991
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851212
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Managing academics : a question of perspective
Winter, Richard Philip - 2017
Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Managing academics -- 1. Managing academics -- 2. Academic work and identity -- 3. A question of perspective -- Part II: Key perspectives -- 4. Managerialism -- 5. Professionalism -- 6. Quality of worklife -- 7. Prosocial identity -- Part III: Perspective taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419916
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Choice modelling and the transfer of environmental values
Rolfe, John (ed.); Bennett, Jeff (ed.) - 2006
of case studies from Australia, Finland, New Zealand, the UK and the US. The conclusion is that the benefit transfer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474028
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Making and breaking gender inequalities in work
Rönnmar, Mia (ed.); Hayter, Susan (ed.) - 2024
"This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite the progress made through frameworks regulating work and employment relations, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated gender divides in labour markets. The authors present innovative ways to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635726
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Carbon sinks and climate change : forests in the fight against global warming
Hunt, Colin - 2009
"Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850957