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Employment Effects Of Product And Process Innovations In Europe, Mario Pianta, Tommaso Antonucci Dec 2001

Employment Effects Of Product And Process Innovations In Europe, Mario Pianta, Tommaso Antonucci

Mario Pianta

This paper develops a model of the employment impact of innovation considering, on the one hand, the interactions with demand and labour costs and, on the other, the variety of patterns of technological change. Different technological strategies are considered. First, a search for technological competitiveness is based on product innovation and productivity rooted in quality advantages; second a strategy of active price competitiveness has productivity growth rooted in process innovation-based restructuring; third a passive price competitiveness strategy is pursued by noninnovators relying on cost-cutting. The new European innovation database drawn from the Community Innovation Survey 1994-96, merged with structural and …


What Do Family Mediators Do? A Look At Practices And Models, Sherrill W. Hayes Dec 2001

What Do Family Mediators Do? A Look At Practices And Models, Sherrill W. Hayes

Sherrill W. Hayes

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Richard Riordan And Los Angeles Charter Reform.Pdf, Matthew J. Parlow Dec 2001

Richard Riordan And Los Angeles Charter Reform.Pdf, Matthew J. Parlow

Matthew Parlow

When the new City Charter took effect on July 1, 2000, Los Angeles cast aside a seventy-five year old governing structure in favor of a streamlined system more reflective of the political realities of a twenty-first century metropolis. It was in many ways a typical Los Angeles moment. Dissatisfied with a municipal institution designed for another age, voters looked to the future and embraced sweeping changes in the fundamental operations of the city. Fully sixty percent of voters rejected a venerable but outdated document and chose a new but unproven one. More importantly, voters opted for legislation that reflected the …