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Gender and ethnic minority exclusion from skilled occupations in construction: a Western European comparison
Byrne, Justin; Clarke, Linda; Meer, Marc Van Der - In: Construction Management and Economics 23 (2005) 10, pp. 1025-1034
Women and ethnic minorities remain seriously underrepresented in skilled construction occupations despite European Union policy to overcome labour market segregation and despite their increasing participation in the economy-wide labour market. The paper seeks to account for differences in female...
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CRECIMIENTO ECONÓMICO Y TRADE OFF ENTRE PRODUCTIVIDAD Y  EMPLEO EN LAS ECONOMIAS EUROPEAS
PALAZUELOS, Enrique; FERNANDEZ, Rafael - In: Estudios Economicos de Desarrollo Internacional 8 (2008) 2, pp. 41-82
El trabajo sostiene que la debilidad de la demanda interna es una  variable determinante del lento crecimiento de la productividad del  trabajo que han registrado las economías europeas a lo largo de las  últimas décadas. Asimismo se constata que el (bajo) ritmo de  crecimiento de la...
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The Macroeconomic Impact of Flexible Labour Contracts: An Application to Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991
This paper constructs a theoretical model to study the effects on employment of the introduction of flexible labour contracts (i.e. with low firing costs), which occurred in many European countries in the 1980s, which it then tests on Spanish data. The model predicts that such contracts increase...
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Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union - Space of Freedom and Security
Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Maltese shores, and the workers’ flows from the new Member States from Central and Eastern Europe following the 2004 accession …, forced the EU officials and the whole Europe to open the debate on the economical and mostly social consequences of labour … celebrate 9 May - The Europe Day was already a tradition for SISEC (an academic formula launched back in 1995 in order to …
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Lisbon five years later: what future for European employment and growth?
Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
At the Lisbon summit of 2000 the European Union (EU) set an agenda for making Europe the most competitive economy in …
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An Unequal Democracy?: Seeing Latin America through European Eyes
Patten, Christopher; Whitehead, Laurence; Álamo, Óscar del - Inter-American Development Bank
International Institute for Governance of Catalonia in November 2003, with support from the government of Catalonia and the Special … Office in Europe of the IDB. At the conference, a group of international experts discussed three important current issues …: democracy, governance and well-being. The book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the conference that address …
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An Unequal Democracy?: Seeing Latin America through European Eyes
Patten, Christopher; Whitehead, Laurence; Álamo, Óscar del - Inter-American Development Bank
International Institute for Governance of Catalonia in November 2003, with support from the government of Catalonia and the Special … Office in Europe of the IDB. At the conference, a group of international experts discussed three important current issues …: democracy, governance and well-being. The book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the conference that address …
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CoR’s White Paper on Multilevel Guvernance – Advantages and Desadvantages
Brie, Mircea; Gal, Diana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
By the multilevel governance concept we can see the European Union as a political system with interconnected … institutions that exist at multiple levels with unique policy features. The White Paper on Multilevel Governance reflects the … determination to "Build Europe in partnership" and sets two main strategic objectives: encouraging participation in the European …
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Impact of Mandatory IFRS Adoption on Conditional Conservatism in Europe
André, Paul; Filip, Andrei; Paugam, Luc - ESSEC Business School - 2013
We study the effect of the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Europe in 2005 on conditional conservatism. To capture … conservatism across our three measures. While there is no change in weak enforcement/governance countries which remain less … conditionally conservative than strong enforcement/governance countries, the latter exhibit a significant decrease. Further, we …
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Bioethical ambition, political opportunity and the European governance of patenting: The case of human embryonic stem cell science
Salter, Brian; Salter, Charlotte - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 286-292
Scientific progress in the life sciences is dependent on the governance of tensions between the economic potential of … governance by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union (EU), cross-national cultural conflict in the field of hESC … science has produced a political demand for a form of governance that can incorporate ethical as well as economic judgements …
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