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Index of Economic Freedom
Heritage Foundation <United States>
For over a decade, The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Washington's preeminent think tank, have tracked the march of economic freedom around the world with the influential Index of Economic Freedom. Since 1995, the Index has brought Smith's theories about liberty, prosperity and...
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United States Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics - Charting International Labor Comparisons (2012 Edition)
United States / Bureau of Labor Statistics - 2003
Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...
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Special Report from the European Ombudsman to the European Parliament following the own-initiative inquiry into the existence and the public accessibility, in the different Communi...
Europäische Union / Europäischer Bürgerbeauftragter - 2000
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Does Trade Explain Europe’s Rise? Geography, Market Size and Economic Development
Studer, Roman - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
This paper tests whether the so-called ‘reach of the market’ helps to explain ‘why Europe’ and ‘why north …-western Europe’. By looking at grain markets from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century, this study concludes that the … neither a concomitant nor an effect of the Industrial Revolution, but indeed a plausible determinant for the rise of Europe …
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Corporate governance, executive pay and performance in Europe
Conyon, Martin J.; Schwalbach, Joachim - 1999
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Dimensions of symbolic capital : modes of distinctiveness of European city regions under change
Rehfeld, Dieter - Institut Arbeit und Technik <Gelsenkirchen> - 2005
European cities like Rome, Helsinki and Dublin differ from one another by virtue ofregional architectonic peculiarities and individual problems caused by the social andeconomic changes each city is facing. “What they have in common is that theircharacter is determined by the model of the...
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Rent-Sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Rusinek, Michael; Rycx, Francois - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
In many European countries, the majority of workers have their wages directly defined byindustry-level agreements. In addition, for some workers, industry agreements arecomplemented by firm-specific agreements. Yet, the relative importance of firm and industryagreements (in other words, the...
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Corporate Governance - Legal Fiction or Economic Reality?
Drobetz, Wolfgang - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2003
In the past few years, corporate governance has become a popular area of discussionin continental Europe. Having been a …
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eHealth in ActionGood Practicein European Countries
Stroetmann, Karl A.; HAMMERSCHMIDT, REINHARD; … - Europäische Kommission - 2009
This report presents case studies from 30 European countriesfor which validated information was available to theproject by the end of November 2008.This informationreflects the situation of the cases at the date ofdelivery to the project by national correspondents duringthe time period...
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The Effects of ICT and E-business on EUTrade: a Retail Industry Perspective
WOERNDL, Maria - Empirica GmbH <Bonn>
The retail industry, an important contributor to the European economy, isbeing affected by changes induced by information and communication technologies(ICT) and e-business. As a result, retailers have come to embrace ICT and e-businessto various degrees. This paper aims to illustrate the...
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