Die New-Skills-Gespräche des AMS werden im Auftrag der Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation des AMS Österreich vom Österreichischen Institut für Berufsbildungsforschung (öibf; www.oeibf.at) gemeinsam mit dem Institut für Bildungsforschung der Wirtschaft (ibw; www.ibw.at)...

This illuminating book broadly addresses the emerging field of ‘diversity of capitalism’ from a comparative institutional approach. It explores the varied patterns for achieving coordination in different economic systems, applying them specifically to China, Japan and South Korea....

In his famous study of the impact of electoral regimes on party systems, Duverger suggested that two-party systems are always found to be associated with single-member constituencies where candidates are elected by a plurality of votes (Duverger, 1964).Many studies of what Rae called the...

The trend of real incomes of agricultural labourers in South India over a span of 160 years, using evidence of payments in kind, indicates that there have been four broad phases. In the first half of the ‘long nineteenth century’, incomes increased but grew very slowly. From the...