In this article, the "mechanism" of unequal exchange, on the basis of Marx's analysis and Emmanuel's seminal contribution to the issue, is investigated. According to the analysis, the deeper cause of unequal exchange lies in the established differences in the labor skills between more and less...

This article attempts to group the regions of Greece into clusters with similar characteristics, by means of Cluster Analysis. The results demonstrate that the thirteen regions of Greece can be grouped in four major clusters, which are, in general terms, consistent with the findings of another...

he Clustering Analysis Methodology is used for employment and Regional Planning in Greece. The thirteen regional departments of Greece are assembled into clusters presenting similar employment characteristics. The results of this study confirm those obtained by a previous study using an...

The present paper uses the “growth accounting” methodology to estimate technological change, in an attempt to formulate an explanation of Russia’s economic decline and signs of recovery in the 1992-1999 time span, in relation to technological change. Also, the potential output and output...

The present paper examines the determinants of investment activity in Greece over the period 1960-1999. It describes briefly the investment activity in Greece and then tests for the factors that presumably influence this investment activity. The paper uses a multiple linear regression model...

The intensity of class struggle in England of 1860s began to transform trade unions from mutual aid association societies to key factors in wage bargaining. These changes at the political level undoubtedly triggered corresponding shifts in theoretical discussion of wages. These shifts had to do...

This article presents measures of environmental emissions related to economic activity in Greece for the year 2000, using the environmental input-output approach. More precisely, two different technical coefficients matrices, i.e. for 1988 and 1998 respectively, are used for the calculations...

The present paper measures the labour multipliers in the Greek economy by means of input-output analysis. The purpose of the paper is to study the interdependencies between the labour structure changes and economic growth in Greece, by measuring the backward and forward multipliers by industry....

This paper estimates ex-post the macroeconomic impacts of the high-speed toll motorway investment of Attiki Odos, in the Athens Metropolitan Area in Greece. Attiki Odos is incorporated in the Trans-European Networksand it is a priority project aimed at developing the greater area of Athens and...

The present paper estimates potential labour and labour gap as well as potential output and output gap using a Cobb Douglas production function and a Hodrick-Prescott filter. We investigate Greece as well as the Peloponnese Region in Greece by sector of economic activity (2000-2007), with the...