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Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia : A Conceptual Framework
Matsumoto, Tadashi - 2014
The development of Asian cities is characterised by rapid and continuous urbanisation on an unprecedented scale, with rapid economic growth led in most places by the manufacturing industry, and rapidly increasing motorisation. The result has been escalating greenhouse gas emissions, sprawling...
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External effects and road charging
Rich, Jeppe - In: Road pricing : the economy and the environment, (pp. 267 - 276). 2008
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Vertikale Arbeitsmarktsegmentation nach dem Geschlecht - ein neoinstitutionalistischer Erklärungsversuch am Beispiel Deutschlands und Schwedens
Festing, Marion; Okech, Jana - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 21 (2007) 1, pp. 42-59
geschlechtsspezifische Segmentationsmuster relevanten gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen und deren mögliche Auswirkungen in Deutschland und …
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Retail productivity
Griffith, Rachel; Harmgart, Heike - 2005
Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector. Figure 1 shows an estimate of labour productivity in retail across countries, using output per hour worked. The UK lies well behind the US, France and Germany. Reynolds at al (2005) contribute to this debate by...
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...
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Offsetting versus mitigation activities to reduce CO2 emissions: A theoretical and empirical analysis for the US and Germany
Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012
This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...
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Locating foreign affiliates in Germany: The case of Swedish MNEs
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - 2001
schwedischer Tochtergesellschaften in Deutschland im Vergleich mit denen in anderen Ländern untersucht. Es zeigt sich, dass die … Multis, in Deutschland zu investieren. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Standortentscheidung beeinflusst wird vom Niveau der … Lohnkosten in Deutschland und an anderen potentiellen Standorten in europäischen Hocheinkommensländern, aber nicht von den …
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Location choice and employment decisions: a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - 2005
Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...
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Core inflation rates: a comparison of methods based on west German data
Landau, Bettina - 2000
Analyse von Daten für den Preisindex für die Lebenshaltung für (West-)Deutschland. Daneben werden die Methoden aus …
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