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The Employment Effects of Technological Change : Heterogenous Labor, Wage Inequality and Unemployment
Rubart, Jens (contributor) - 2007
This book provides an empirical and theoretical examination of the short- and medium run impacts of technological advances on the employment and wages of workers which differ in their earned educational degree. Furthermore, by introducing labor market frictions and wage setting institutions the...
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Wirtschaftsstruktur und Leistungsbilanz : Eine alternative Erklärung für die Ungleichgewichte im Euroraum
Ehmer, Philipp - 2017
Leistungsbilanzungleichgewichte und der Abbau von Defiziten -- Determinanten der Leistungsbilanz und der Einfluss … -- Betrachtung der Branchenebene -- Implikationen für optimale Währungsräume und die Eurozone. … Volkswirtschaften in der Eurozone. Er leitet den Zusammenhang zwischen den beiden Größen theoretisch her und bestätigt die Argumentation …
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Services Offshoring and its Impact on the Labor Market : Theoretical Insights, Empirical Evidence, and Economic Policy Recommendations for Germany
Winkler, Deborah - 2009
Services from information technology to research to finance are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521251
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The Euro : Why it Failed
Jespersen, Jesper - 2016
1. Eurozone Crises -- 2. An 'Optimal' Currency Area: What Could it Mean? -- 3. Why was the EMU Established?: Different …This book takes a close look at macroeconomic imbalances within the Eurozone and explores the profound consequences the … has left a number of Eurozone countries with devastatingly high rates of unemployment. The book argues that by …
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Immigration Policy and the Labor Market : The German Experience and Lessons for Europe
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bonin, Holger; Hinte, Holger; … - 2007
"German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in the face of high unemployment and a shrinking labor force due to demographic change. Despite the implementation of Germany's first immigration act and several European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520657
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Designing the European Model
Honkapohja, Seppo (ed.); Westermann, Frank (ed.) - 2009
This book examines existing problems in the European economy, focusing on labour markets, including labour market reform and outsourcing, as well as macroeconomic issues, such as macroeconomic stabilization in the Euro area and convergence and divergence in economic growth in the EU.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106189
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Britain, Europe and EMU
Eltis, Walter - 2000
This book shows how the transformation of Britain's economic performance has been based on control of public expenditure, improving competitiveness, co-operative industrial relations and a large favourable contribution from inward investment. In contrast, Europe has suffered from rising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054278
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On China's Trade Surplus
YUAN, Tao - 2014
China’s trade surplus is an essential question, but there are many popular misconceptions about it, a fact that prompted the creation of this book, On China's Trade Surplus. It will help readers to understand the manner in which China’s foreign trade and China’s role in global trade have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016858
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Sustainability of External Imbalances : A Critical Appraisal
Herzberg, Angélique - 2015
Since the mid-1990s, sustainability of large and persistent current account positions have been attracting much attention from policy makers and economists alike. Alongside global imbalances, sustainability of imbalances within the euro area, which started widening shortly after the introduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014021013
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The Global Recession Risk : Dollar Devaluation and the World Economy
Pelaez, Carlos M.; Peláez, Carlos A. - 2007
A fire sale of US debt could cause a global recession through disorderly devaluation of the dollar, raising interest rates and crashing stock markets. The G7 doctrine of shared responsibility intends to coordinate regional efforts. This book analyzes the main issues and individual regions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053806