infonet-economy

This article looks at the individual responsibility of rank-and-file soldiers in “just wars” and defends what might be called “subtle pacifism”. Subtle pacifism begins with an acknowledgement of the conflict between the jus in bello imperative of taking part in one's own community's just wars and the pacifist imperative of refraining from any homicidal enterprise. The moral...

Si personne n'a jamais osé parler d'un « massacre juste », alors pourquoi dit-on qu'une guerre est juste ou pas ? En analysant les argumentations classiques à propos de la guerre pour en éprouver les logiques internes, Nicolas Tavaglione soumet à la critique cette notion de guerre juste, sans jamais se ranger du côté d'un pacifisme absolu et unilatéral....

We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality, redistribution, and the relationship between market inequality and redistribution in affluent OECD countries in the 1980s and 1990s. We observe sizeable increases in market household inequality in most countries. This development appears to have been driven largely, though not exclusively, by changes...

Nach der negativ ausgefallenen Referendumsabstimmung über einen Beitritt der Schweiz zum Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum (EWR) Ende 1992 entschied sich die Bundesregierung, die Beziehungen zwischen der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft und der Europäischen Union auf bilateraler Ebene weiterzuführen.

Néo-fonctionnalisme, fédéralisme, transactionnalisme, inter-gouvernementalisme libéral, institutionnalisme, constructivisme, gouvernance multiniveaux, autant de termes qui sont utilisés dans les approches politologiques de l'intégration européenne. Cet ouvrage vise précisément à familiariser le lecteur à ces concepts. L'auteur s'attache à analyser ces approches de la...

We examine the relationship between the supply of skilled labor, technological change and relative wages. In accounting for the role of skilled labor in both production activities and productivity- enhancing "support" activities we derive the following results. First, an increase in the supply of skilled labor raises the employment share of non-production labor within firms...

The consequences of international outsourcing in traditional models of trade are already well understood. However, with regard to empirical research there seem to be still some important shortcomings. Empirical studies on the labor market effects of outsourcing are mainly based on the same techniques that have been used for years. In terms of the adopted econometric specifications,...