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This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate inIndian states has affected the pattern of manufacturing growthin the period 1958-92. We show that states which ammendedthe Industrial Disputes Act in a pro-worker direction experiencedlowered output, employment, investment and...
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EU-Europa kann sich einer Erweiterung durch die mittel- und osteuropäischenLänder (MOE) nicht entziehen. Der politische Wille zu einer schnellen Integration steht dabei in Widerspruch zu sozio-ökonomischen Entwicklungen (vorwiegend in MOE) und notwendigen institutionellorganisatorischen...
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Wenn von Globalisierung die Rede ist, dann wird noch immer oft von einem Turbokapitalismus gesprochen. Heimatlose Unternehmen vagabundierenüber den Globus auf der Suche nach den kostengünstigsten Standorten, zwingen die Nationalstaaten zu einer Abwärtsspirale bei sozialen Standards,...
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Die Dienstleistungsgesellschaft galt lange Zeit, gilt vielfach noch heute,als der kommende beschäftigungspolitische Hoffnungsträger. Von daherdreht sich ein großer Teil der strukturpolitischen Diskussion um die Frage,ob bzw. wie der Übergang von der Industrie- zur...
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Economic institutions encompassing increasingly sophisticated concepts of risk-sharing and liability flourished in Europe since the High Middle Ages. These innovations occurred in an environment of fragmented local jurisdictions, not within the framework of the territorial state. In this short...
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Most economic historians would surely endorse Paul Romer's view expressed above that technological progress lies at the heart of long run economic growth. Long ago Kuznets identified the epoch of 'modern economic growth' as one where growth came to be driven by scientific and technological...
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We find little support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of a positiverelationship between market power and innovation … viewed as arisinglargely from the difficulties of reaping the benefits of innovation rather thanfrom a failure to innovate …
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innovation under three headings: How was premodern technical knowledge stored to avoid loss? How were tacit, visual, verbal, and …
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Already in the early 1980s, city officials realised the challenge of structural change for Bremen. It was at this point that decisions were made to initiate a profound ‘change of direction’ in the economic focus of the city (Warsewa, 2006). In the past, Bremen’s economic fortunes had been...
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a high proportion ofmanufacturing jobs until the 1970s andwere internationally renowned for theirskills and innovation …
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