Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline and there is a common perception that trade unions in the region are weak. However, little is known about the actual relevance of trade unions for individual workers in the...

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....

Coming out of a centralized system, faced with a small market which would not be able to create economies of scale, much competition from the other Western Balkan states, political challenges on strategies for attracting foreign investments, poor government budget, informal economy, Albania was...

Исследованы существующие подходы инновационной деятельности железнодорожного транспорта Украины, и определены более действенные в современных условиях...

В статье обосновывается необходимость перехода к формированию тарифов на централизованное водоснабжение и водоотведение на принципах стимулирующего...

This paper analyzes the experience, high incidence, lesson learned and reflections on the issue renegotiations in Latin America, based in the evolution of PPP contracts through the last 25 years. The paper also shows how countries via new PPP laws, regulations, norms and specific platforms can...

The rapid rise in global fragmentation - foreign investment, global supply chains, and 'production sharing' - is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape the...

Outsourcing public provision of services tends to lower labor intensity and increase its efficiency. Costs are usually lower, but quality problems can affect services like health care and residential youth care. Consumer choice has stimulated innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous...

Introduction : law, land and power : treaty ports and concessions in modern China / Robert Bickers and Isabbella Jackson -- Extraterritoriality in China : what we know and what we don't know / Pèar Cassel -- Who ran the treaty ports? A study of the Shanghai municipal council / Isabella Jackson...

The article speaks about additional possibilities of regional development by means of use of schemes of the state-private partnership in financing investment projects and development of regional mechanisms of stimulation of concession schemes, especially in the projects of social infrastructure....

This paper includes four parts. The first part analyzes the object of public property with the corresponding regulations in law, including holders of public property rights : state and territorial administrative units. The second and third part refer to the judicial characters of property...

This paper analyzes the Thai petroleum fiscal regimes, so called Thailand I and Thailand III, under the concession system for granting petroleum exploration and production rights. The analytical issues include the sharing of benefit between the government and concessionaires, assurance of the...

The article shows specific features of development of foreign projects of state-private partnership (SPP), types and forms of the used SPP models, also reveals modern problems and obstacles on the way of introduction of SPP, and provides recommendations on how to overcome them in construction...

Cruise industry is an economic activity experiencing a noticeable growth during the last years worldwide. The efficient exploitation of existing ports and related infrastructures for the development and expansion of this tourism segment of the Greek economy can provide multidimensional benefits....