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Les impots sur les salaires, etude speciale.
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ISBN: 9264031952 9264031944 Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris : OCDE-Organisation de cooperation et developpement economiques,

Racism, xenophobia, and distribution : multi-issue politics in advanced democracies.
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ISBN: 9780674024953 0674024958 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York Russell Sage Foundation Harvard University Press

Pocketbook Politics
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ISBN: 9780691130415 9780691086644 0691130418 0691086648 1400843782 1299987591 9781400843787 9781299987593 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. In this groundbreaking study, Meg Jacobs demonstrates how pocketbook politics provided the engine for American political conflict throughout the twentieth century. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, national politics turned on public anger over the high cost of living. Beginning with the explosion of prices at the turn of the century, every strike, demonstration, and boycott was, in effect, a protest against rising prices and inadequate income. On one side, a reform coalition of ordinary Americans, mass retailers, and national politicians fought for laws and policies that promoted militant unionism, government price controls, and a Keynesian program of full employment. On the other, small businessmen fiercely resisted this low-price, high-wage agenda that threatened to bankrupt them. This book recaptures this dramatic struggle, beginning with the immigrant Jewish, Irish, and Italian women who flocked to Edward Filene's famous Boston bargain basement that opened in 1909 and ending with the Great Inflation of the 1970's. Pocketbook Politics offers a new interpretation of state power by integrating popular politics and elite policymaking. Unlike most social historians who focus exclusively on consumers at the grass-roots, Jacobs breaks new methodological ground by insisting on the centrality of national politics and the state in the nearly century-long fight to fulfill the American Dream of abundance.

Aspects of worker well-being
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ISBN: 1281004006 9786611004002 0080475507 9780080475509 9781849504737 1849504733 0762313900 9780762314249 9780762313907 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam Oxford Elsevier JAI

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This volume contains thirteen new and original chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. It deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. Topics covered include job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and schooling. Among the questions answered are: To what extent do greater work hours of women mitigate the widening of the family earnings distribution? To what extent does the decline in unionization widen the distribution of earnings? To what extent do computers expand the earnings distribution? To what extent does the Russian wage distribution change if one accounted for wage arrears? To what extent does business relocation bring about job creation and job destruction? To what extent does maternal education increase childrens education? To what extent do job skills matter for low-income workers? And finally, why do minimum wage increases often fail to lead to increases in unemployment? There are thirteen new and original chapters containing research on aspects of worker well-being. Each chapter is written by experts in the field.

Flat world, big gaps : economic liberalization, globalization, poverty and inequality.
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ISBN: 9781842778333 9781842778340 9788125030676 8125030670 Year: 2007 Publisher: London Zed

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Third World: economic development problems --- 241 Hedendaagse wereldproblemen --- Globalisering --- AA / International- internationaal --- 313 --- 382.11 --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën). --- Theorie van het internationale evenwicht. Economische onafhankelijkheid van een natie. Globalisering. Mondialisering. --- Economic development. --- Globalization. --- Income distribution. --- Développement économique. --- Mondialisation. --- Revenu --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Economics --- Répartition. --- Economic Conditions, Development and Structure --- Economic Conditions, Development and Structure. --- Développement économique --- Mondialisation --- Répartition --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Economic development --- Globalization --- Income distribution --- Distribution of income --- Income inequality --- Inequality of income --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën) --- Theorie van het internationale evenwicht. Economische onafhankelijkheid van een natie. Globalisering. Mondialisering --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Disposable income --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse

The politics and economics of regional transfers : decentralization, interregional redistribution and income convergence.
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ISBN: 9781845426668 1845426665 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cheltenham Elgar

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