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UNINA9910160339003321 |
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Autore |
Axat Federico |
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Kill the next one / / Federico Axat, translated by David Frye |
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New York, New York : , : Mulholland Books / Little Brown & Company, , [2016] |
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0-316-35419-8 |
0-316-39566-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (380 pages) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Part I -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 12 -- 13 -- 14 -- Part II -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- 18 -- 19 -- 20 -- 21 -- 22 -- 23 -- Part III -- 24 -- 25 -- 26 -- 27 -- 28 -- 29 -- 30 -- 31 -- 32 -- 33 -- 34 -- 35 -- 36 -- 37 -- 38 -- 39 -- 40 -- 41 -- 42 -- 43 -- 44 -- 45 -- 46 -- 47 -- 48 -- 49 -- 50 -- 51 -- 52 -- 53 -- 54 -- 55 -- 56 -- Part IV -- 57 -- 58 -- 59 -- 60 -- 61 -- 62 -- 63 -- 64 -- 65 -- 66 -- 67 -- 68 -- 69 -- 70 -- 71 -- 72 -- 73 -- 74 -- 75 -- 76 -- 77 -- 78 -- 79 -- 80 -- 81 -- 82 -- 83 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Newsletters. |
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"Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A stranger makes him a proposition: why not kill two deserving men before dying? The first target is a criminal, and the second is a man with terminal cancer who, like Ted, wants to die. After executing these kills, Ted will become someone else's next target, like a kind of suicidal daisy chain. Ted understands the stranger's logic: it's easier for a victim's family to deal with a murder than with a suicide. However, as Ted commits the murders, the crime scenes strike him as odd. The targets know him by name and possess familiar mementos. Even more bizarrely, Ted recognizes locations and men he shouldn't |
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know. As Ted's mind begins to crack, dark secrets from his past seep through the fissures"-- |
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UNINA9910438073603321 |
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Autore |
Pinto Marco de |
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International trade and unemployment : on the redistribution of trade gains when firms matter / / Marco de Pinto |
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New York, : Springer, 2013 |
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1-283-93524-4 |
3-642-33236-6 |
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[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (120 p.) |
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Contributions to economics, , 1431-1933 |
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International trade |
Unemployment |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Motivation -- International trade and unemployment - the worker-selection effect -- Unemployment benefits as redistribution scheme for trade gains- a positive analysis -- An optimal redistribution scheme for trade gains. . |
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Economic theory and empirical research confirm that the rising international integration caused an increase in aggregate income at least for the industrialized countries, although trade liberalization is no Pareto improvement. In the empirical literature, there is a consensus that the international integration implies a destruction of low-skilled job vacancies and an increase in income, while the conclusions are mixed concerning the implication for the overall unemployment rate. This book seeks to find theoretical explanations to these empirical regularities. The book poses three questions: What are the implications of trade liberalization for the labor market in the presence of trade unions if we account for both firm and worker heterogeneity ? What are |
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the implications of a redistribution policy if the government chooses unemployment benefits to partially compensate the losers of trade liberalization ? What is the optimal redistribution scheme for trade gains if the government explicitly takes into account the consequences for the income distribution ? This book presents a rigorous theoretical analysis to answer the questions posed. Beside the well-known firm-selection effect on goods markets caused by trade liberalization, a selection process on the labor market -the worker-selection effect - is presented. The book also argues that if welfare is measured in the traditional manner, i.e. income per capita, compensating the loser of trade liberalization by paying unemployment benefits decreases welfare, but the intensity of the reduction differs with respect to the chosen funding of the unemployment benefits. Another significant contribution of this book is that if the objective function of the government, i.e. the modified welfare function, includes both aggregate income and income inequality, the redistributing of trade gains can lead to an increase in welfare. |
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