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Technological Change and Skill Development in Sudan
Nour, Samia Mohamed - 2013
With the ongoing restructuring in Sudan, structural issues such as the need for skill development and interaction with technological change need an in-depth analysis that this book offers. The central themes of this book are- required skill formation, upskilling of the workers, and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016447
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520753
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Studies on Continuing Vocational Training in Germany : An Empirical Assessment
Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor) - 2007
This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of continuing vocational training in Germany. Specific issues concerning continuing training that are debated in academia as well as in public are discussed. Wage and productivity effects of training are analyzed, explicitly accounting for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520830
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The Impact of International Trade and FDI on Economic Growth and Technological Change
Hofmann, Patricia - 2013
Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016562
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Technological Innovation Across Nations : Applied Studies of Coevolutionary Development
Masurel, Enno; Geenhuizen, Marina; Jauhari, Vinnie; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521156
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Monopsonistic Labour Markets and the Gender Pay Gap : Theory and Empirical Evidence
Hirsch, Boris - 2010
Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap -- Spatial Monopsony and Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap -- Dynamic Monopsony … -- Simple Dynamic Monopsony -- A General Equilibrium Model of Dynamic Monopsony -- Dynamic Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap … regularity of the gender pay gap. Theoretically, the main conclusion is that employers possess more monopsony power over their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521339
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Asian Cultural Flows : Cultural Policies, Creative Industries, and Media Consumers
Kawashima, Nobuko (ed.); Lee, Hye-Kyung (ed.) - 2018
This book investigates economic, political, and cultural conditions that have led to transnational flows of culture in Asia. Coverage also looks at the consequences of an increasingly interconnected Asian regional culture as well as policy makers and cultural industries' response to it. The book...
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National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan
Lin, Yeh-Yun - 2013
Contents -- Foreword: Markku Markkula -- Foreword -- Bror Salmelin: Foreword: Se-Hwa Wu -- Preface: Leif Edvinsson -- Preface: Carol Yeh-Yun Lin -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- 3. National Intellectual Capital Development of the Four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016276
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Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy : International Perspectives
Lember, Veiko - 2014
Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Public Procurement and Innovation: Theory and Practice -- 3 Australia -- 4 Brazil.- 5 China.- 6 Denmark -- 7 Estonia -- 8 Greece -- 9 Hong Kong -- 10 Korea. -- 11 Sweden.- 12 United Kingdom -- 13 United States of America -- 14 Public Procurement, Innovation and...
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The Future of Public Housing : Ongoing Trends in the East and the West
Chen, Jie - 2013
Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian countries large public housing programs are underway. Behind these generalizations, there are exceptions, too. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014017348