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Resource rent spillovers to fishers remuneration
2018
Icelandic fishers operate on a higher wage rate than they might have attained in another profession. There could be a number of reasons for this. Fishers are more likely to be full-time workers than the average worker in the economy. Fishers are away from home and they experience more...
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Cluster policy as a development strategy: Case studies from the Middle East and North Africa
Benner, Maximilian - 2012
Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...
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Stakeholding as a new development strategy for Saudi Arabia
Corneo, Giacomo - 2010
The transition from an oil-based to a knowledge-based economy requires that the Saudi population dramatically increases its level of human capital. This paper argues that noncognitive skills may be a bottleneck in the formation of human capital and proposes a policy to indirectly strengthen...
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Imperfect Competition in the Recycling Industry
Eichner, Thomas - 2003
recycled and finally landfilled, and where a recycling firm has market power. The material content constitutes an aspect of … green product design and affects the recycling costs. Although the recycling firm's supply of recycling services is … proposed which correct for market failures. One promising candidate is a relative recycling standard combined with a …
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On international harmonization of policy instruments to promote paper recycling in Europe
Huhtala, Anni; Samakovlis, Eva - 1998
competition in international markets. We investigate alternative policy measures for promoting paper recycling in seven European … for paper production. We then "translate" the standard into market-based instruments to illustrate how a common recycling …
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Secondary raw materials market creation: Waste stock exchange
Coda Canati, Francesca - 2000
potentially use some kind of waste in their production cycles, or that implement recycling and recovery programs. …
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Kreislaufwirtschaft durch Co-Creation
Walcher, Dominik; Leube, Michael G - In: PraxisWISSEN Marketing 2 (2017) 01/2017, pp. 1-20
Der Umbau der gegenwärtigen Linearwirtschaft in eine Kreislaufwirtschaft ist Gegenstand des Aktionsplans der … Ausgestaltung von Wertschöpfungsprozessen und Geschäftsmodellen für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung der Kreislaufwirtschaft darzustellen. …
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Long-Run Growth and Recycling: A Material Balance Approach
Pittel, Karen; Amigues, Jean-Pierre; Kuhn, Thomas - 2006
In this paper we analyze the implications of recycling for long-run economic development. In contrast to former … our model. We focus on the implications of recycling-related market failures and the integration of material balances on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753102
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A Kuznets Curve for Recycling
Pittel, Karen - 2006
alternative explanation by showing that EKC's might arise simply due to the combination of recycling and the rising scarcity of … about the ability of recycling firms to internalize the in- terrelation between recycling decisions today and the future …
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