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Explaining the gender wage gap : the missing aspects of discrimination

Sielska, Alicja - 2023

"This timely book offers a fascinating contemporary analysis of research into the gender pay gap while also providing important nuanced observations. It illustrates the variant methodologies that have been employed by researchers who have attempted to elucidate this challenging topic. Explaining...

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Knowledge, inequality, and growth in the new economy

Nahuis, Richard - 2003

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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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...

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Culture and the labour market

Austen, Siobhan - 2003

Culture and the Labour Market attempts to define the meaning of culture and the nature of its possible consequences on economic processes and outcomes. In particular, the book examines alternative theoretical and empirical approaches to the economic analysis of cultural effects in the labour...

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A modern guide to sports economics

Koning, Ruud Hans (ed.); Kesenne, Stefan (ed.) - 2021

"This timely Modern Guide offers critical insights into developments in both professional and recreational sports through the lens of the economic forces that determine them. It explores the benefits of the relationship between sports and economics, highlighting ways that economic research can...

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Science evaluation and status creation : exploring the European research council's authority

Edlund, Peter - 2020

. Tensions and Struggles in Europe-Level Science -- 4. Creating Acceptance for European Research Council Evaluations -- 5. The … benefit from its account of the historic development of the ERC and the consequences of its funding across Europe"-- …

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Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development

Smallbone, David (contributor); Virtanen, Markku (contributor) - 2016

development -- 4. Entrepreneurship and industrial policy in Ireland / Colm O'Gorman and Declan Curran -- 5. Towards Europe: the …

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Academic spin-offs and technology transfer in Europe : best practices and breakthrough models

De Cleyn, Sven H. (contributor); Festel, Gunter (contributor) - 2016

Introduction: what is the current state of knowledge transfer at research institutions in Europe, what are the main … perspective on academic spin-offs and technology transfer -- 12. What Europe still has to learn from the US in academic innovation … / Hervé Lebret -- Part V conclusion -- 13. Academic spin-offs and technology transfer in Europe - concluding insights and …

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The financialization response to economic disequilibria : European and Latin American experiences

Levy Orlik, Noemí (contributor); … - 2016

Levy and Etelberto Ortiz -- Part I -- Structural desequilibria in Europe: what to do -- 1. A structural and monetary …Europe and Latin America's social and economic stagnation is a direct result of the unresolved phenomena of the … countries in Europe and Latin America, and to boost a new cycle of economic growth and development. This critical discussion …

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Foreign direct investment in Europe : a changing landscape

Liebscher, Klaus (contributor) - 2007

countries in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The book cuts through the existing data fog by offering a wide range of …

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