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  • Human Capital and Regional Development in Europe

    A Long-Run Comparative View

    by Claude Diebolt, Ralph Hippe ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Human capital is of utmost importance for the future of our knowledge economies and societies. However, it is unequally distributed in Europe, contributing to marked spatial patterns of economic prosperity within and across countries. In many cases, these patterns have a long history. To understand them better, it requires to go back in time, when mass schooling was starting to become a reality ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • How Many Languages Do We Need?

    The Economics of Linguistic Diversity

    by Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber ...
    In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. It leads to financial costs, communication barriers, divisions in national unity, and, in some extreme cases, conflicts and war--but it also produces benefits related to group and individual identity. What are the specific advantages and disadvantages ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • The Economics of Poverty

    History, Measurement, and Policy

    by Martin Ravallion ...
    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies

    Edited by Johanna Kuhlmann, Frank Nullmeier ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy.The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus on actors. ... Read more

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  • Immigration Economics

    by George J. Borjas ...
    Millions of people—nearly 3 percent of the world’s population—no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these nations have switched in a short span of time from being the source of immigrants to being a destination for them. International migration is today ... Read more

    $68.19 CAD

  • The Culture of Science

    How the Public Relates to Science Across the Globe

    Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla, Nick Allum ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion and its influence on particular developments (e.g. stem cell research); and the demarcation of science from ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Handbook of Historical Economics

    Edited by Alberto Bisin, Giovanni Federico ...
    The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage of statistics applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad readership. As new sources and applications of data in every economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new fundamental questions, ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion

    Culture, Economy, and Colonial Legacies

    Edited by Michael Windzio, Ivo Mossig, Fabian Besche-Truthe, Helen Seitzer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade*,* colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several ... Read more

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  • EU Cohesion Policy

    Reassessing performance and direction

    Edited by John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy, Tatjana Muravska ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

    Cities and Geography

    Edited by V. Henderson, J.F. Thisse ...
    Series Book 4 - Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics
    The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the development of the new economic geography and its incorporation along with innovations in industrial organization, endogenous growth, ... Read more

    $155.19 CAD

  • Labour Market Institutions and Productivity

    Labour Utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Beata Woźniak-Jęchorek, Michał Pilc ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
    This book explains the role of formal labour market institutions in keeping the labour utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe above the level characteristic for Western European states. It provides an innovative and enriching take on labour utilisation at large and how various formal labour market institutions can affect the ongoing trend in labour utilisation in a way that is not covered by ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Cultural Differences and Economic Globalization

    Effects on trade, foreign direct investment, and migration

    by Roger White ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Economic globalization is the process of increased integration among nations, characterized and fostered by three elements of international trade- goods and services, international capital flows, and international migration. In recent decades, international economic integration has increased both in depth (more pronounced bilateral connections) and in breadth (connections have become more ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD