Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry

By Ralph Paprzycki

Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry analyses changes in production networks in the Japanese electronics industry. Japan's post-war success in the assembly industries is...

Published December 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System, 1951-2000

Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth

By Huang Xiaoming

Huang examines a recurring pattern of rapid economic growth in East Asia from 1951 to the present and explores how far a single East Asian Growth...

Published December 10th 2004 by Routledge.

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Arms Trade and Economic Development

Theory, Policy and Cases in Arms Trade Offsets

By Jurgen Brauer, Paul Dunne

Countries that spend scarce resources to import arms from abroad often require arms sellers to 'reinvest' part or all of the proceeds back into the...

Published July 22nd 2004 by Routledge.

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State Health Insurance Market Reform

Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets

By Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit

In this volume, leading American health economists provide a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge of insurance market reform that is accessible to...

Published July 22nd 2004 by Routledge.

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International Perspectives on Temporary Work

Edited by John Burgess, Julia Connell

The numbers of workers employed on a temporary basis has grown massively over the last few decades. The benefits to firms of hiring workers on...

Published July 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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Shipping and Ports in the Twenty-first Century

Edited by David Pinder, Brian Slack

Shipping and port systems are vital to societies and lifestyles around the world. In the late twentieth century, however, assumptions concerning the robustness of these...

Published May 20th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Emerging Industrial Structure of the Wider Europe

Edited by F. McGowan, S. Radosevic, Nick Von Tunzelman

The latest wave of European Union expansion has brought many central and Eastern European countries into the fold. Unlike previous enlargements however, the latest new...

Published May 6th 2004 by Routledge.

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Local Industrial Clusters

Existence, Emergence and Evolution

By Thomas Brenner

The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common - specific case-studies are thus put into wider...

Published March 18th 2004 by Routledge.

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Living Wage Movements

Global Perspectives

Edited by Deborah M. Figart

Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have...

Published February 19th 2004 by Routledge.

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Sex Differences in Labor Markets

By David Neumark

Sex differences abound in labor markets. In the United States three differences in particular have attracted the most attention: the earnings gap, occupational segregation, and...

Published January 29th 2004 by Routledge.

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