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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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How Bytes Meet Coils: ICT and E-business in the Steel Industry

Lilischkis, Stefan - Empirica GmbH <Bonn>

This paper presents findings about the use of ICT and e-business in the steel industry as well as related impacts and policy implications. The study was carried out in the framework of the Sectoral e-Business Watch, a service to the European Commission’s DG Enterprise and Industry. In the...

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