Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 is a rigorous analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing particularly on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, it also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and...

A challenging and informed examination of the links between the general business environment and the operations, decisions, and organizations of firms. O'Sullivan explores the links between the two 'hot' issues-corporate governance and innovation-.

This is a major comparative study of big business in the three leading European nations across the course of the 20th Century. Drawing on a carefully constructed sample of leading companies from the UK, France, and Germany, the author analyses the relationship between corporate and national...

Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key arguments in these fields: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, and the recurrent difficulties of...

The process of firms??? growth ??? in terms of productivity or employment ??? is a major concern of policy makers. In this context, innovations are considered to play a crucial role in stimulating firms??? performance. This book investigates this general hypothesis by looking at three topics: 1....

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables/List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Need for Pension Reform:A Problem-Oriented Perspective -- 1.1 Public pension arrangements under adaptational pressures -- 1.2 Specific vulnerabilities of Bismarckian pension systems -- 1.3...

A survey of the 'miracle economies' of the 1990s, that analyses the role of the relatively small size of the economies in question, and of accidental external circumstances which contributed to favourable developments. This book examines the rise, in the 1990s, of the model status of the smaller...

Path-breaking research on one of the most important macroeconomic policy challenges in the post-crisis world, presented in accessible language Written and researched by a team of experts from the International Monetary Fund, other policy-making institutions, and academia, this timely book looks...

Particularly in times of a crisis, an employee-led training (ELT) system is a cost-efficient way to give employees the further education they deserve and need to stay on top of things, and to increase their ability to be efficient and effective.An ELT system accrues very few costs while having...

Ten or fifteen years ago global business was mainly in the hands of a select number of multinational giants. Small and medium-sized business concentrated on their home markets and perhaps one or two neighboring countries. Not so any longer. Even the smallest businesses have realized that they...