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The Nordic countries and multinational enterprises: employment effects and foreign direct investment.

MacDonald, G - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1989

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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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The economies of the Baltic Sea Region in relation to green economics, with particular focus on Latvia: environmental sustainability and well-being

Dimante, Dzineta; Atstaja, Dzintra - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 3, pp. 292-305

Economic activity has an impact on the environment, but the potential degree of this impact will depend on several factors which are mainly determined by the technology used. This paper analyses the potential environmental impact the economies of the Baltic Sea Region have on their respective...

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Welfare regimes and macroeconomic regime constellations: explaining the Scandinavian anomaly

Sauer, Thomas; Vogel, Lena - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 4, pp. 331-356

Sweden, Finland and Denmark. …

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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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You Get What You Pay For: How Nordic Cities Are Financed

Lotz, Jorgen - Institute of Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), … - 2012

The Nordic countries are small, unitary, and have largely homogeneous populations. Municipalities are the most important agents in the decentralized public sector and the middle tier (the county level) is losing importance. The expenditure of Nordic local authorities exceeds that in Canada by 10...

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Why do firms invest in the Baltic Sea Region

Kotilainen, Markku; Nikula, Nuutti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010

We have defined the Baltic Sea Region as consisting of the following countries and regions : Denmark, Estonia, Finland … greenfield investment (establishing a new firm), 2) among the real estate firms Sweden, Finland, Germany and Poland are the most …, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and the regions of St Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast and Kaliningrad in Russia. We …

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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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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...

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