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result of the on-going relocation of industry and metropolisation in a globalizing world. In the era of Post-Fordism, the …
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new form. We propose a new approach to the world migration phenomenon as two complex directed networks (immigration and … (2006-2010), according to World Bank data. We evaluated two main parameters: degree (D) - the number of links of a country … with the rest of the world; and weight (W) - the number of migrants to and from a country. Weight represents the extent of …
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What will come first - non-acceptable global warming or extinction of oil reserves? Both processes can bring substantial costs to the mankind, but their order has important economic implications. The answer to this question will either lower oil price in the long run or will lead to its further...
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This paper puts forward a Bayesian version of the global vector autoregressive model (B-GVAR) that accommodates international linkages across countries in a system of vec-tor autoregressions. We compare the predictive performance of B-GVAR models for the one- and four-quarter ahead forecast...
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In France, the Paris region is the traditional centre for decision-making and creative functions. Unsurprisingly, it respectively concentrates 75% and 90% of audiovisual producers and technicians, and 52% of video games employees (IAURIF, 2010). The aim of this paper is to analyse if the...
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This paper examines the role of genetic factors and shared environment in explaining the choice of working in the public sector and public-private sector pay gaps. The analyses are done using data for Finnish twins that span the period from 1990 to 2004. The data are based on two sources. The...
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