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Services Offshoring and its Impact on the Labor Market : Theoretical Insights, Empirical Evidence, and Economic Policy Recommendations for Germany
Winkler, Deborah - 2009
Services from information technology to research to finance are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...
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Precarious Professional Work : Entrepreneurialism, Risk and Economic Compensation in the Knowledge Economy
Styhre, Alexander - 2017
This book examines the new conditions under which professional work, often referred to as “knowledge-intensive work,” is organised and how professional groups who have traditionally been granted jurisdictional discretion now have their work routines renegotiated. In the new economic regime...
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The Employment Effects of Technological Change : Heterogenous Labor, Wage Inequality and Unemployment
Rubart, Jens (contributor) - 2007
This book provides an empirical and theoretical examination of the short- and medium run impacts of technological advances on the employment and wages of workers which differ in their earned educational degree. Furthermore, by introducing labor market frictions and wage setting institutions the...
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The Effective Tax Burden on Highly Qualified Employers : An International Comparison
Elschner, Christina (contributor);  … - 2005
Taxes on the highly skilled are an important cost factor for companies competing internationally for talent. This book provides an international comparison of the effective level of taxes and social security charges imposed on highly qualified employees. Based on a newly developed inter-temporal...
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Economics of the Labour Market : Unemployment and the Costs of Unemployment
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2016
The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD. This book provides alternative explanations of this phenomenon. Junankar begins with surveys of the labour market: labour demand, labour supply, and labour force participation. He argues...
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The Science and Technology Labor Force : The Value of Doctorate Holders and Development of Professional Careers
Gokhberg, Leonid (ed.); Shmatko, Natalia (ed.);  … - 2016
Foreword -- Part I: The International Value of Doctorate Degrees on the Labor Market -- Part II: Doctorate Holders: Employment Outcome and Mobility -- Part III: Human Resources in Science and Technology and Their Professional Carrers -- Part IV: Conclusions.
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Telephone and Helpdesk Skills : A Guide to Professional English
Wallwork, Adrian - 2014
Preparing for Calls -- Making a Call -- Leaving a Message with the Switchboard Operator -- Voicemail and Answering Machines -- Receiving Calls -- Finding Out About Another Company, Giving Information About Your Company -- Chasing -- Dealing with Difficult Callers and Unhelpful Staff -- Improving...
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Political Economy, Linguistics and Culture : Crossing Bridges
Backhaus, Jürgen G. (contributor) - 2008
Social sciences and economics have undergone enormous progress. While certain topics have been fully researched, others have remained largely under-researched or ignored. It is this discrepancy which prompted the research paradigm of 'Crossing Bridges'. For this volume, ten authors have joined...
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Rock and Roll Fantasy? : The Reality of Going from Garage Band to Superstardom
Phillips, Ronnie J. - 2013
technology are now opening up possibilities for more artists to be innovative and financially successful. But new music requires … new ways of doing business. For more artists to be better off requires new business models to replace those that dominated … Beatles might never have broken up if they had the kind of two-tier contracts - as band members and as solo artists - that are …
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Der Rhythmus der Innovation : Was Manager und Unternehmen von Jazzern und anderen Künstlern lernen können
Geschwill, Roland - 2015
Vorwort -- Die Entstehungsgeschichte dieses Werkes -- „Der Rhythmus der Innovation“ oder: was Manager von Künstlern lernen können -- Einleitung: Das Buch zusammengefasst für Leser mit wenig Zeit -- Die Bilder des 20. Jahrhunderts -- Vom Ende der Planbarkeit oder: Die neuen Bilder des 21....
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