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Social impacts of the economic recession 2008-2009: results of foreign studies

Bogomolova, T. Yu. - In: Journal "Region: Economics and Sociology" 2 (2010)

The paper analyses how the economic behavior, expectations, social attitudes and consumer preferences of the American people changed over the period of the crisis. We show that there is no age group which could avoid the stroke of the crisis, but the configuration and scope of problems affected...

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Lohnungleichheit, Erwerbsbeteiligung und Beschäftigung : Marktkräfte und institutionelle Einflüsse (Wage inequality, labor participation and employment : market forces and institut...

Möller, Joachim; König, Marion - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 53-64

"This contribution focuses on the relation between wage inequality, participation behavior and employment and the analysis in the project 'Flexibility of the wage distribution, inequality and employment'. In this project we investigate whether the popular idea of an encrusted German labor market...

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Challenges for the dollar as a reserve currency

Benigno, Gianluca - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Gianluca Benigno examines the extent to which the financial crisis has undermined the dollar's pre-eminence.

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Survey of Latin American Immigrants in the United States

Bendixen; Amandi - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2008

Results and analysis of a poll of major remittance senders and a geographic map of the origin of remittances by state in the continental United States.

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Improving Access to the U.S. Banking System Among Recent Latin American Immigrants

Bair, Sheila C. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Research project on ways to improve Latin American immigrants¿ access to the U.S. banking system focused on access issues related to recent Latin American immigrants and particular attention to best practices in account opening procedures and providing remittance Products. Research also...

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Survey of Remittance Senders: U.S. to Latin America

Bendixen; Amandi - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2010

Results and Analysis of a poll in the U.S. on immigrants remittances senders.

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Analysis of craft workers' and foremen's perceptions of the factors affecting construction labour productivity

Dai, Jiukun; Goodrum, Paul; Maloney, William - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 11, pp. 1139-1152

Extensive studies have been conducted to examine the factors affecting construction productivity, but efforts have … quantify the workforce's perspective of construction labour productivity. Specifically, the survey measured the impact of 83 … productivity factors, which had been identified through 18 focus group sessions with craft workers and their immediate supervisors …

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Financial Services Segregation: Improving Access to Financial Services for Recent Latino Immigrants

Stookey, Sarah - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This paper outlines elements of demand for financial services among recent Latino immigrants, summarizes key factors contributing to their financial segregation, and describes products, services and administrative practices that have been used successfully by depository institutions. Throughout...

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Chinaâ€™s Trade Relations with the United States in Perspective

Wang, Dong - In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell 39 (2010) 3, pp. 165-210

Chinaâ€™s trade relations with the United States over the past four decades is a topic that has not been fully dealt with in scholarly works. This paper charts the course of US-China economic relations since 1971, explains the principal forces stimulating growth and encouraging change and,...

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Foreign direct investments as an engine of technological change in Malaysia: the role of social interactions

Jonas, Manja - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 164-186

Many developing countries – including Malaysia – try to leverage FDI for local technological change. But our understanding of inter-firm-level processes of technological learning from FDI is still rather limited. This study attempts to shed some light on the role for social interaction in...

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