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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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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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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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Independent Institutions Protecting Children's Rights
Lansdown, Gerison - 2001
This Digest focuses on independent human rights institutions for children, and the urgent need to create such institutions in every country in the world to protect, promote, and monitor children's rights. Children are among the most vulnerable group in any society, with no vote, no access to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004981748
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The Nordic Countries and the EU: How European Integration Integrates and Disintegrates States Domestically
Egeberg, Morten - ARENA - 2003
This chapter covers the Nordic member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden, as well as the “associated” countries Norway … and Iceland, although the latter are not formal members of the EU. It follows the general template by presenting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040392
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Institutional Clash and Financial Fragility. An Evolutionary Model of Banking Crises
Knutsen, Sverre; Sjögren, Hans - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
There are mainly two types of theories explaining banking crisis, emanating from the monetarist school respectively institutional economics. Using an allegory, monetarists are discussing how much water in terms of liquidity that is needed to stop a fire escalating into a disaster, while...
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The innovative performance of foreign-owned enterprises in small open economies
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd; Lööf, Hans - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 33 (2008) 4, pp. 393-406
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Settlement size and fertility in the Nordic countries
Kulu, Hill; Vikat, Andres; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006
Europe. This study examines fertility variation across settlements in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and … Sweden. We base our study on aggregate and individual-level register data. We first examine annual total and parity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163283
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Cohort fertility patterns in the Nordic Countries
Andersson, Gunnar; Rønsen, Marit; Knudsen, Lisbeth B.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008
childbearing histories of women born in 1935 and later derived from the population registers of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and … Sweden. We further explore childbearing behaviour by women’s educational attainment. The results show remarkable similarities … are compared. Country differences in fertility outcome are generally rather low. Childlessness is highest in Finland and …
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