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This book, first published in 1992, measures and explains the performance of major competitor countries in international financial services. The author assesses performance on the basis of the shares of the major institutional players in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Europe.

This book offers the first comprehensive account of ten years of research into the problem of the training, employment and productivity of low-skilled personnel in advanced economies. It explains why government policies need to move even further than they have done so far, and in which directions these policies must next move.

Over the past fewdecades there have been surges in productivity in a number of countries, and the explanations for these surges have not been satisfactory. This 1996 book examines the data relating to these changes at an individual establishment level in a number of countries throughout the world.