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Environmental Taxes: A Comparison of French and Swedish Experience from Taxes on Industrial Air Pollution
Millock, Katrin; Nauges, Céline; Sterner, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 1, pp. 30-34
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037351
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White-collar unionism in selected European countries : issues and prospects.
E, Kassalow - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1993
Focuses on white-collar unionism in the private sector in the 1980s. Discusses legal distinctions between blue and white-collar personnel and the unionization of higher-level personnel.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966471
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886612
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353059
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BSocial preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age ? An experiment in Austria and Sweden
Martinsson, Peter; Nordblom, Katarina; Daniela R?tzler; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase with age.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691745
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The role of universities in regional development: conceptual models and policy institutions in the UK, Sweden and Austria
Trippl, Michaela; Sinozic, Tanja; Lawton Smith, Helen - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
, Austria and Sweden the paper highlights that in the UK national policies encourage and have resulted in all four university … models. In Sweden and Austria policy institutions tend to privilege in particular the RIS university model, whilst at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812564
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670287
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When Institutions Matter: Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe, 1950-95
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998
During the early post-war period, Western trade union movements grew in membership and achieved an institutionalized role in industrial relations and politics. However, during the last decades, many trade unions have seen their membership decline as they came increasingly under pressures due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754790
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Labour Market Inclusion of Immigrants in Austria and Sweden: The Significance of the Period of Migration and the Effect of Citizenship Acquisition
Kogan, Irena - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2002
- Austria and Sweden - in terms of the relevant structural characteristics of the two societies, i.e. immigration and … data are utilized to explore the labour market attainment of former Yugoslav citizens in Austria and Sweden in terms of the … both Sweden and Austria, but the magnitude of the unemployment gap of immigrants in Sweden is much higher. If successful in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754793