El mundo está ante la encrucijada de avanzar hacia soluciones serias e inmediatas a los grandes problemas que enfrenta o seguir la tendencia en curso hacia una importante crisis social y ambiental.En este libro se señala que, al mismo tiempo que enfrentan desafíos en materia de pobreza,...

El concepto de innovación exportadora, tal como se utiliza en este estudio, adopta la definición de la Organización de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE), que pone el foco en la innovación dentro de la propia empresa (producto, proceso, comercialización u organización).La...

We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up...

In this paper we investigate two stages in the process that leads to participation in ALMP programs. We use unique administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual program enrollment. Although 25% of newly...