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The Future of Consumption
This open access book presents three future consumption trends—technology, sustainability, and wellbeing—and discusses what impact those trends will have on the ways we shop. What will be important to the consumers of the future? And how will their retail experiences look and feel? Will technology, sustainability, and wellbeing trends fundamentally change how we consume? And how should …
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- 978-3-031-33245-6
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The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes
Christopher Flinn presents an introduction to a search & bargaining model that can be used to assess the welfare effects of minimum wage changes & to determine an 'optimal' minimum wage."The development of the model and the econometric theory underlying its estimation are carefully presented so as to enable readers unfamiliar with the econometrics of point process models and dynamic optimizatio…
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- 9780262289399
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- 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) :illustrations
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Offshoring of American jobs: What response from U.S. economic policy?
Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the "offshoring" of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258579
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 141 pages) :illustrations.
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Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 1990 to 2009
A study of the labor market integration of highly skilled Soviet immigrants to Israel that formulates dynamic models of job search and human capital investment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305211
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) :illustrations
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From Little's Law to Marketing Science: Essays in Honor of John D.C. Little
The legacy of a pioneer in operations research and marketing science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262331500
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- 1 online resource (vi, 487 pages) :illustrations
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Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?
Analysis of financial crises in emerging market economies, including Mexico, Argentina, and Russia; traces the evolution of crisis theory and challenges the conventional wisdom.Since the mid-1990s, emerging market economies have been hit by dramatic highs and lows: lifted by large capital inflows, then plunged into chaos by constrained credit and out-of-control exchange rates. The conventional …
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- 9780262269728
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 547 pages) :illustrations
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An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278805
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- 1 online resource (x, 377 pages) :illustrations.
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Capital markets union and beyond
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- 9780262354264
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- 1 online resource (384 pages).
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Creating good jobs :an industry-based strategy
Experts discuss improving job quality in low-wage industries including retail, residential construction, hospitals and long-term healthcare, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking. Americans work harder and longer than our counterparts in other industrialized nations. Yet prosperity remains elusive to many. Workers in such low-wage industries as retail, restaurants, and home constru…
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- 9780262357364
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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Bond markets in Latin America : On the Verge of a Big Bang?
Developing local bond markets is high on the policy agenda of Latin America. This book's case studies of Argentina, Brazil Chile, Columbia, Mexico and Uruguay, written by country experts follow a common methodology, with each offering a history of that country's bond market development and data sets.
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