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Forecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years. This book offers a full understanding of the institutional responses and mechanisms in place to finance old age and provides analysis of demand and supply factors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-08
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The book “The Greek Economy and the Crisis. Challenges and Responses” targets all those who think about the present and future of this (culturally) long-lived small geographic region (Greece), to form a personal view of its social and economic problems. A society that...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-10-27
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The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest...
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Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2011-10-24
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Central to the book are questions concerning the existence and the characteristics of justice motives, and concerning the influence that justice motives and justice judgements have on the emergence, but also the solution of social conflicts. Five main themes will be...
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Springer
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2011-10-20
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The international literature on non-standard employment has mostly focussed on its impact on employment, and more recently on working and living conditions. This volume explores these issues with special reference to Italy. Italy is characterized by very low...
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Physica
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2011-10-12
Collection :
AIEL Series in Labour Economics
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The book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008.The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis...
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Physica
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2011-09-24
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AIEL Series in Labour Economics
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Can the euro area survive without a more centralized economic policy? What lessons can be drawn from Economic and Monetary Union about new modes of policy-making in the European Union? Have euro area members spoken with one voice on the international stage and what does...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-08-25
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One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that, drawing on the experiences of twenty affluent countries since the 1970s.
The book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-08-25
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One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that, drawing on the experiences of twenty affluent countries since the 1970s.
The book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-08-25
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In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in developed societies, analyzing how these various mechanisms are withstanding the strains of the current global financial crisis.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-06-13
Collection :
Education, Economy and Society
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After a description of the new forms of globalization currently shaping our world, and of their possible spatial effects, the book highlights which European regions have in the past succeeded in taking advantage of globalization trends and identifies the major reasons...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-05-27
Collection :
Advances in Spatial Science
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There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a sophisticated and affluent economy? And how could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime metamorphose with relative ease into a stable democratic...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-05-27
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Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-04-07
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Is small still beautiful? The recent economic and financial crisis has shown that developed countries in which firms are smaller suffered the biggest GDP plunges. Today, economic growth depends more than in the past on sound and well-organized firms, which means more...
Editeur :
Physica
Parution :
2011-01-07
Collection :
Contributions to Economics
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Globalization, the information age, and the rise of the knowledge-based economy are significantly transforming the way we acquire, disseminate, and transform knowledge. And, as a result, knowledge production is becoming closer and more directly linked to economic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-12-16
Collection :
Insight and Innovation in International Development
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Looking at all sides of the globalization debate, this book analyzes how international economic policy is made and how it has become so controversial. The author offers a solution to the debate between free trade/unregulated markets and the push for greater government...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-22
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Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-10
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The research underlying this volume was designed to test the theory of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in contemporary context. Developed by Nobel Prize-winning economist, Robert Solow, in the 1950s, TFP has been applied by many economists to investigate the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-03
Collection :
Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
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This book addresses multiple aspects of the conflict between Georgia and Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia in August 2008, including the use of force, human rights, transnational litigation and international law 'rhetoric'. The particulars of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-19
Collection :
Euro-Asian Studies
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