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By: Katharina Trapp

Keywords: Labor Share, FDI, Portfolio Investment, International Capital Mobility, Wage Bargaining

By: Manuel Gonçalves Gil

Keywords: Portugal, Youth Unemployment, Labour, Labour Market Reforms, Labour Market Flexibilisation, Employability, Precarity, Precariat, Polanyi, Commodification

By: Valeska Gerstung

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Teil der Einleitung: Spätestens seit den Hartz-Reformen ist das Thema der Niedriglohnbeschäftigung in den Fokus der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Debatte in Deutschland gerückt. Laut einer aktuellen Studie des IAB ist der deutsche Niedriglohnsektor im europäischen Vergleich mit 24,1% im Jahr 2010 a...

By: Marko Vladisavljeviü, Nevena Ivanovic, Sonja Avlijas, Suncicia Vujic

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Using the Labour Force Survey data in the period 2008-2011 and the Blinder-Oaxaca wage decomposition, this paper examines the scope and the characteristics of wage disparities between women and men in Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia. Estimation results show that in Serbia and Macedonia emplo...

By: Silke Mahnkopf-Praprotnik

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Mit der Finanz- und Weltwirtschaftskrise ab 2007 wurden auch viele europäische Länder, vor allem Länder der europäischen Währungsunion, mit in den Abwärtsstrudel gerissen. Die Schwächen eines bis dahin forcierten Wirtschafts- und Wachstumsmodells wurden offensichtlich und gaben Anlass, das bis...

By: Sebastian Levi

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen (bGE) ist ein in jüngerer Vergangenheit immer häufiger diskutierter Reformvorschlag, der unter anderem auf Grund seines vermuteten negativen Einflusses auf die Arbeitsmoral oftmals kritisch bewertet wird. Unter Bezug auf die mikroökonomische Arbeitsangebotsthe...

By: René-Lehweß-Litzmann

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Einleitung: Verwirklichungschancen, zu Englisch „capability“, ist der zentrale Begriff eines auf Amartya Sen zurückgehenden Ansatzes der Wohlfahrtsmessung 1 . Er steht für die Handlungen und Seinszustände („Funktionen“), die für eine Person erreichbar sind, und die sie mit guten Gründen wertschätzen kan...

By: Raif Can

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract:The findings of the existing literature on the relationship between employment protection legislation and the unemployment rate are mixed. This study analyzes the relationship between employment protection legislation measured by the OECD Employment Protection Index and the unemployment rate be...

By: Muhammad Waqas

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Using the UK Citizenship Survey for the years 2007 - 2010, this paper investigates immigrant's attitudes towards immigration and compares these to natives' attitudes. Immigrants who arrived in the UK earlier are closer in their reactions to natives than to recent immigrants. Labour market conc...

By: Felix Kersting, Andrea Pürckhauer, Renke Schmacker

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Zusammenfassung: Dieser Aufsatz widmet sich zunächst der Frage, wie aus der Interaktion von Arbeitsmarkt, Sozialstaat und Wirtschaftswachstum vor dem Hintergrund der demografischen Entwicklung, hoher Staatsverschuldung und der Zunahme atypischer Beschäftigung Wachstumszwänge hervorgehen. Anschließend wird...

By: Giorgos Kallis, Michael Kalush, Hugh O.'Flynn, Jack Rossiter, Nicholas Ashford

working hours; Europe; 4-day workweek; environmental sustainability; quality of life; productivity; productiveness; unemployment; binary economics

By: Mary P. Murphy

degrowth, eco-socialism, employment, care, political alliances, imaginaries

By: Giorgos Kallis

Degrowth; Work; Metabolism; Institutions

By: Giorgos Kallis, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos

Degrowth; Work; Sufficiency; Social enterprises; Energy

By: Jørgen S. Nørgård

Degrowth economy; Amateur economy; Labor productivity; Work sharing; Happiness; Sustainability

By: Blake Alcott

Degrowth; Unemployment; Job Guarantee; Employer of last resort; Right to work; Guaranteed income

By: Antonia De Vita

From the text: 3. The objectives of the research project were: - to identify the educational and participatory processes, self-training and training processes that currently exist in emerging economies; - to find out what entities are represented or self-represented in communities that have put into practice emerging economic practices; - to identify any possible impact or repercussions (eco...

By: B.J. Unti

Introduction: The Degrowth Declaration of the 2008 Paris conference called for the “development of policies and tools for the practical implementation of degrowth”. The Job Guarantee (JG) is one such policy. This paper demonstrates how a JG program may be used to achieve both full employment and degrowth. Traditional Keynesian and Post Keynesian policies provide useful tools for addressing some...

By: Alfredo Camozzi, Amy Kabat

Introduction: The term “Ecovillage” has had great fortune since it was coined during the convention of sustainable communities held in Denmark, 1991, by the Gaia Foundation. Thanks to the support of important ecological and alternative experiences like that of Findhorn in Scotland, The Farm in the United States, Chrystal Water in Australia, and others, the Global Ecovillage Network(GEN) was for...

By: Oliver Parodi

From the introduction: Work, economy and growth nowadays are fundamentally linked to technology, technological progress and the handling of our world by and through technology. If we are talking about degrowth as a passage of civilization we have to keep in mind that our (modern/Western) civilizations are technological ones: At present, we all are living in a world which is strongly formed and ...