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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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'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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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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present day and explores topics such as the growth of temporary jobs in Europe, the influence of gender, immigration and race …, Richard Edwards and Michael Reich (1982), 'The Period of Consolidation: World War II to 1970s' and 'Evidence for the …), October, 406-31 -- Gregory DeFreitas (1988), 'Hispanic Immigration and Labor Market Segmentation', Industrial Relations, 27 (2 …
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Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at … diversity, population ageing, illegal immigration, ethnic networks and immigrant assimilation. With specific reference to Europe …
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globalization : concentration vs. dispersion / Masatsugu Tsuji -- Iron town cluster : Yawata, its glory, decline and rebirth … comparative advantages, persistence and change in overall specialization / Luca De Benedictis -- Globalization, industrial …
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The importance of intellectual property rights is now well established as a vital component in the success of firms and of nations. The diverse contributors to this volume, drawn from the fields of law, business and economics, clarify and analyze the problems and promise of IP policy from a...
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This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the Internet's adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over competing standards and methods for achieving a global...
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This book examines the way in which the increasing internationalization of services, including the operation of multinationals in this sector, interacts with the process of innovation in services. The book challenges the theoretical traditions that have developed around the analysis of service...
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world-wide scale partly as a consequence of the financialization of capital. The geographical diffusion of market relations … 'globalization' of economic activities is fully achieved, where 'post-Fordist' regulation has overcome the crisis of Keynesian …
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