Gender and Structural Adjustment in Pakistan
We review the change in the socio-economic condition of women during the intensive period of structural adjustment (1987/88 onwards) in their role as producers, as home managers and as mothers.
Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Mehnaz Ahmad
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Risk Financing in Labour Managed Economics: The Commitment Problem [PDF]
Labour managed firms face some serious problems with regard to the provision of capital, especially of risk-bearing capital. These difficulties are discussed in the first part of the paper.
Schlicht, Ekkehart +1 more
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Planning Frenzy: Forced Labour, Expulsion and Genocide as Elements of Population Economics in German South West Africa [PDF]
Jürgen Zimmerer
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In consideration of the Lisbon Agenda, the Romanian Government drew up the National Programme for Reform for 2007-2010, which established national priorities, and ways and tools to achieve economic reform and growth.
Valentina VASILE, Valeriu IOAN-FRANC
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A Social Innovation or a Product of Its Time? The Rehn-Meidner Model’s Relation to Contemporary Economics and the Stockholm School [PDF]
A wage and economic policy programme for full employment, price stability, growth and equity was developed by two Swedish trade-union economists in the early post-war period.
Erixon, Lennart
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Readings in Labour Economics: edited by Francis S. Doody, Associate Professor of Economics, Boston University, College of Business Administration, 1950, Addison-Wesley Press, Inc., Cambridge, 42, Mass. [PDF]
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Economic thinking and ethics: an ethical approach for economical issues [PDF]
The worldwide economic crisis of 2007/2008 popularised the ethical questions within economics. Currently, few mainstream economists tackle these questions and the typical curriculum of economics often lacks input on philosophy, ethics and the history of ...
Thieme, Sebastian
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Economics and Labour Law in Britain: Thatcher's Radical Experiment
Keith Ewing
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In this paper we estimate equations for relative hourly earnings for 50 industrial sectors from Sweden, Finland, Great Britatin and the United States. We find that relative hourly earnings fluctuate less in Sweden than in the other three countries. In all four countries only a quarter to one third of the sectors show any influence of relative sector ...
Monghadam, Reza +1 more
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A note on the linear, logit and probit functional form of the labour force participation rate equation [PDF]
The commonly used specification in regional economic research on labour force participation is the linear probability function. An important alternative recommended in the Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics in the contribution of Isserman et al ...
J. Paul Elhorst
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