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During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today - information and communication technology (ICT) - does...
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"This authoritative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labour markets of firms, it clearly lays out the current state of...
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As the world entered the twenty-first century, global skill shortages in many occupations were evident throughout the world. While these were mitigated by a global recession, there is no generally agreed upon method for measuring these shortages. This book discusses various theories for...
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What is the potential of the new information and communication technologies? This book assesses the relationship 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...
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Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell -- 9. Unions and innovation : a survey of the theory and empirical evidence / Naercio Menezes …
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This book draws together recent contributions by Sanjaya Lall--leading authority on international investment, technology and industrial policy--on competitiveness and its major determinants. It draws upon his wide experience of competitiveness analysis in Asian and African countries and his...
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-88 -- Michael Piore (1971), 'The Dual Labor Market: Theory and Implications', in David M. Gordon (ed) (ed.), Problems in Political …. Edwards (1973), 'A Theory of Labor Market Segmentation', American Economic Review, 63 (2), May, 359-65 -- David M. Gordon …, 28 (4), July, 508-23 -- Glen G. Cain (1976), 'The Challenge of Segmented Labor Market Theories to Orthodox Theory: A …
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European integration -- 5. Schumpeter's theory of economic development revisited -- 6. Skunk works : a sign of failure, a sign …
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This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and...
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decision-making practitioners that links theory with case-based learning opportunities.'--Michael Radnor, Chairman and co …
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