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'The economics of immigration literature has grown in the last decade to reflect the complexity of economic issues … between 2000 and 2011, by leading academics which analyse immigration issues among the major destination countries across the … of Immigration on the Labor Market', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (4), November, 1335-374 -- David Card (2005 …
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open economy -- 5. Immigration vs. foreign investment to ease the ageing problems of an ageing open economy -- 6. Ageing …
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Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field's leading scholars, demonstrate there is much work to be done: the scope and intellectual content of industrial relations...
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This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries' technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to...
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This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consider three means of doing so: improving the quality by better...
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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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The group of contributors in this book come from academia and international organizations in Europe and the USA. They focus on trade unions, which affect real-wage flexibility and the provision of training to workers. They also concentrate on employment protection legislation, which discourages...
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timely and important topic. In that vein, the author contributes to the understanding of the relationship between immigration …
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George J. Borjas (1995), 'The Economic Benefits from Immigration', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9 (2), Spring, 3 … Higher Immigration', Journal of Labor Economics, 19 (1), January, 22-64 -- Alan J. Auerbach and Philip Oreopoulos (1999 …), 'Analyzing the Fiscal Impact of U.S. Immigration', American Economic Review, 89 (2), May, 176-80 -- Kjetil Storesletten (2000 …
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'Professor Dana and his colleagues have carefully and successfully put together a collection of chapters on ethnic minority entrepreneurship from all parts of the world. The book comprises eight parts and 49 chapters. Undoubtedly, given the massive size and content of a 835-page book, it is fair...
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