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relations since 1991.The research is focused on Russia and encompasses three main aspects: strategic approach of Russian …-Chinese relations, Russian hydrocarbons production and export potential and prospects for the Eastern Russia. The paper is based on … are sufficient to meet the Chinese demand, oil production prospects in the East of Russia are uncertain at a long …
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-industry trade), we show that Russia is globally disadvantaged in the manufactures trade vis-à-vis the EU and China, and advantaged …The objective of the paper is to study Russia's pattern of specialisation in the manufactures trade since 1998. Russia … differentiated according to Russia's main trading partners: the European Union (EU), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and …
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This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade. The impact of landlockedness on Central Asian's trade costs is split into several components, using a panel gravity equation estimated on a large sample of countries (167 countries over...
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Labour market and career advice and guidance have received considerable recent research and policy attention and have been heralded as part of the new institutional resources required in reformed, active, welfare states. We seek to understand the meaning of such policy enthusiasm by proposing an...
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Research on professional service firms (PSFs) has been quickly developing over the last twenty years, especially emphasizing both PSFs' distinctiveness and their current challenges. Recent efforts by PSFs scholars have focused on the issue of understanding differences between PSfs regarding...
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suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a variety of economic and social activities …
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Steel industry has been engaged for a very long time in a downsizing process which has deeply transformed social and industrial relations, work and employment management. Once, these industry was owned and managed by big national groups (sometimes public) and employed a lot of workers at...
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The hospital industry could be characterised on the one hand as under “industrial constraints” (just in time, 24 hours opening, and on the other hand as a service activity with, in departments, a high degree of patient oriented activities. Very similar pressure are exerted on hospitals in...
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comparison with France. It has been designed as follows. In section 1, we begin by comparing the general features of labour …
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Finland and France share some common characteristics regarding the labour market situation and trends : a high level of unemployment (respectively 8.4% and 9.5%), a low rate of employment among the 55-65 and the 15-24 age groups (for the latter mainly due to a “full time” educational model),...
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