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International trade patterns and labour markets – an empirical analysis for EU member states
Zeddies, Goetz - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 96-115
During the last decades, international trade flows of the industrialised countries became more and more intra-industry. At the same time, employment perspectives particularly of the low skilled by tendency deteriorated in these countries. This phenomenon is often traced back to the fact that...
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Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade
Ferto, Imre; Soós, Károly Attila - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 132-148
We examine some controversial country-specific factors influencing vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade including foreign direct investment and income distributions. As concerns, the effect of differences in countries’ levels of economic development (richness), both theories and...
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The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Competitiveness in the European Cement Industry - Results of a Matched Plant Comparison between Germany, Spain and the UK
Triebswetter, Ursula; Hitchens, D. - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 3, pp. 38-49
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Modelling long-run energy consumption under model uncertainty
Humer, Stefan; Csereklyei, Z. - EcoMod Network - 2012
The causality between energy consumption and real income in developed countries has been a very vital research topic in recent years. Raising concerns about climate change and global warming increase the pressure on policy makers to take action against energy depletion. Unfortunately these...
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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?
Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640
The European welfare regimes face two sets of challenges. One internal, specific for the welfare state itself, and the other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing gap between the rigid welfare state design and flexible...
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Macro-level perspective of consumer ethnocentrism: a panel data study in Turkey
Altintas, Murat Hakan; Harcar, Talha; Dulgeroglu, Ismail; … - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 7 (2011) 4, pp. 402-421
This article analyses the relationship between the main antecedents of and imports/GNP ratio as a subtle reflector of macro-level consumer ethnocentrism (CE). We constructed a model that reflects the macro level ethnocentrism in a domestic country. This ratio expresses the economy openness of a...
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Active ageing in organisations: a case study approach
Frerichs, Frerich; Lindley, Robert; Aleksandrowicz, Paula; … - In: International Journal of Manpower 33 (2012) May, pp. 666-684
eight European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the UK. Findings – The study … company strategies across Europe (with countries such as Germany and the Netherlands being more advanced). There is also some …
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PRODUCTION BY SECTOR IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: ANALYSIS OF FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, SPAIN, POLAND AND THE UNITED KINGDOM, 2000-2005.
Guisan, M.C.; Aguayo, E. - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 7 (2007) 1, pp. 33-46
causes that explain the lower levels of industrial real value-added per inhabitant in Spain and Poland, in comparison with …
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On the causal relationship between trade-openness and government-size: evidence from OECD countries
Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia; Violato, Mara - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 4/5/6, pp. 226-249
The compensation hypothesis predicts a positive causation from international economic openness to the size of the public sector, as governments step in to perform a risk mitigating role to counterbalance the increasing exposure to external risk and the economic dislocations caused by growing...
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Green change – endogenizing technical progress in the renewable power generation sector
Wiebe, Kirsten Svenja; Lehr, Ulrike; Lutz, Christian - EcoMod Network - 2013
Renewable energy deployment is growing rapidly on a global scale. China, Germany, Japan and the US are among the … countries with highest capacity of renewables installed. In Germany, for example, the large growth in renewable power generation …. & Edler, D. (2012): Green jobs? Economic impacts of renewable energy in Germany. Energy Policy 40, DOI 10.1016/j.enpol.2012 …
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