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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?

Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640

The European welfare regimes face two sets of challenges. One internal, specific for the welfare state itself, and the other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing gap between the rigid welfare state design and flexible...

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Bank debt and performance of Continental European firms

Krivogorsky, Victoria; Grudnitski, Gary; Dick, Wolfgang - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 593-608

When the source of external capital for Continental European firms is examined, debt markets have historically supplied a much larger percentage of the external capital than equity markets, and firms rely much more on bank debt than bonds for their external funds. In this environment banks have...

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Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies: profit implications of price discounting

Longo, Christopher J. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 6, pp. 447-460

Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies have been debated in published literature; however, these debates have not accounted for the differences in elasticity of demand between the public, private and cash paying markets. A mathematical model is presented that explores several plausible...

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Women during Recessions in France and Germany. The Gender Biases of Public Policies

Eydoux, Anne - In: Revue de l'OFCE N° 133 (2014) 2, pp. 153-188

This article explores the gender biases of recessions and policy responses they have entailed in France and Germany in … the 2000s. During the Great Recession, France experienced a significant rise in both female and male unemployment. Germany … impaired by austerity measures and structural reforms, especially in Germany. While recovery plans and labour market policies …

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International trade patterns and labour markets â€“ an empirical analysis for EU member states

Zeddies, Goetz - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 96-115

During the last decades, international trade flows of the industrialised countries became more and more intra-industry. At the same time, employment perspectives particularly of the low skilled by tendency deteriorated in these countries. This phenomenon is often traced back to the fact that...

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Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade

Ferto, Imre; Soós, Károly Attila - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 132-148

We examine some controversial country-specific factors influencing vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade including foreign direct investment and income distributions. As concerns, the effect of differences in countriesâ€™ levels of economic development (richness), both theories and...

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