Routledge Studies in the European Economy is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Featuring compact and well researched volumes of 150 to 300 pages, the series provides a range of content considering the European economy alongside history, politics, cultural studies, agriculture, education, globalisation, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
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By Grzegorz Gorzelak, Gunther Maier, George Petrakos
October 17, 2000
With the harmonization of the EU economies, and issues of EU enlargement and integration with Europe's transition economies topping the political agenda, the economic geography of Europe is being recast. This important volume analyses the spatial implications of the integration-transition process, ...
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By Peter Cressey, Bryn Jones
November 20, 1995
Europe's work force is subject to a dual convergence process: from the transnational spread of new management practices and from the political force of European union. Trade union rights, hours of work, working practices and training provisions are all being subjected to these twin pressures. Work ...
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By Victoria Curzon Price, Alice Landau, Richard Whitman
May 05, 1999
This volume looks at the process of enlargment which the European Union is currently undertaking, focusing on both the economic and political dimensions of the subject. The volume examines how enlargment has evolved and looks at the roles and relations of the different actors - member states, ...
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By Morten Balling, Frank Lierman, Andy Mullineux
September 25, 2012
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been through a profound transition process for more than a decade now. The financial sectors and markets in the region have been subject to major structural reforms including privatization, liberalization and the acquisition by foreign banks of ...
By Stefan Hedlund
September 10, 2012
Russia's transition to a market economy has been tortuous to say the least. However, this book argues that the arguments and counter-arguments that pitch shock therapy against gradualism are wide of the mark and quite pointless.Indeed, the reasons for the warped outcomes can actually be traced back...
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By Joan Costa-Font
June 13, 2012
With the creation of the Mediterranean partnership and the recent move towards the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean in 2008, a new emphasis is placed on the Mediterranean in the study of European Integration. This book brings together a collection of experts to address this important ...
By Sean Barrett
August 15, 2011
Over the past twenty years air fares in Europe have fallen steadily. New entrant airlines such as Ryanair and Easyjet have become the largest passenger airlines in Europe, old national airlines have become commercialised and staff productivity of airlines and airports now compete. The reason behind...
By Robert Salais, Noel Whiteside
February 20, 1998
This volume brings together well-known scholars from a wide range of disciplines to provide a superb analytical and historical overview of how state policy has affected established economic and labour market systems in France and Britain. The contributors to this book explore some crucial questions...
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By Amedeo Fossati, Giorgio Panella
June 21, 1999
To what extent should local and regional governments in the European Union be allowed to determine their own fiscal policies?This book explores the core issues of fiscal federalism in the European context. It combines theoretical and empirical analysis in addressing such questions as:* what sort of...
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By Teresa Lawlor, Mike Rigby, Roger Smith
June 21, 1999
This volume:* explores the extent to which European Industrial Relations systems are converging *explores what has been the unions' reaction to changes in the economic environment * includes studies from key sectors: electronics, food manufacturing, banking and public administration * compares ...
By Thomas Kruppe, Ralf Rogowski, Klaus Schömann
August 07, 1998
The deregulation of labour law in the European Union was thought to be a spur to lasting growth of employment and an increase in labour market efficiency. This book reveals that the results of such policies have been far from those expected.This study provides a country by country overview of the ...
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By Wolfgang Lecher, Hans-Wolfgang Platzer
December 15, 1997
This book explores the prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern of industrial relations, in which the European-level organisations representing employers and trade unions gain in importance vis-a-vis their national organisations. In particular, the impact of the 'Social Chapter'...