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Location Choice, Product Choice, and the Human Resource Practices of Firms
Freedman, Matthew L. - 2007
This thesis is comprised of three chapters. The first investigates the implications of industrial clustering for labor … on labor market outcomes. The results show that clustering makes it easier for workers to job hop among establishments … importance of geography in understanding labor market dynamics within industries.While the first chapter reveals striking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450588
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Investigating the Global Productivity Effects of Highly Skilled Labor Migration: How Immigrant Athletes Impact Olympic Medal Counts
Horowitz, Jonathan Joseph - 2011
Labor migration is a defining attribute of today's global economy, as more people live outside their country of birth … opportunity to investigate the movement of a highly skilled labor force (Kahn, 2000). Therefore, the current study will … investigate 21st century labor migration patterns and their relationship to productivity in the context of arguably the largest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450681
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Transformation of what? : or: the socio-ecological transformation of working society
Barth, Thomas; Jochum, Georg; Littig, Beate - 2019
labor are disregarded. Overall, work still plays a marginal role in the entire sustainability discourse. Consequently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992107
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Decomposing and Analyzing Korea’s Declining GDP Growth: Some Cautions and Suggestions
Croix, Sumner La - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2007
Chin Hee Hahn and Sukha Shin (2007) have developed new decompositions of Korean economic growth from 1990 to 2004. They find that Korea’s declining GDP growth has been accompanied by a sharp decline in capital deepening and an increase in total factor productivity. By contrast, Jorgenson and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824175
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Book review of Alice R. P. Abreu (org.): Flexible production and economic governance in Latin America
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This book organized by Alice Abreu, actual President of ISA-RC30 “Sociology of Work”, is a follow up of an international seminar on the same theme of the title, held in September 1997 also in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). In this book are published papers presented on Latin American case studies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836145
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Modeling with scenarios: technology in north-south development
Chichilnisky, Graciela; Cole, Sam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1978
This article outlines work in progress on a study of technological choice in the context of North-South development. Its main purpose is to describe the methodology being developed in the pilot phase of the study. This is of interest because it links together a number of analytic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837262
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Innovation through Long-distance Conversations? Lessons from Offshoring-based Software Clusters in Bangalore
Okada, Aya - eSocialSciences - 2009
skilled labor, made available through clustering has played an important role in facilitating learning, that is, diffusing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512451
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ИННОВАЦИИ В УПРАВЛЕНИИ ТРУДОМ НА ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯХ СФЕРЫ УСЛУГ
Феклистов И.Ф. - In: Проблемы современной экономики (2012) 3, pp. 388-390
В статье анализируются актуальные проблемы эффективного и экономичного использования ресурсов на инновационно развивающемся предприятии сферы услуг
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011239341
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Immigration, Ethnic Diversity and Political Outcomes: Evidence from Denmark
Harmon, Nikolaj A. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2012
I study the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on political outcomes in immigrant receiving countries, focusing on the case of election outcomes and immigration in Danish municipalities 1981-2001. A rich set of control variables isolates ethnic diversity effects from that of other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150174
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Shea (<i>Vitellaria paradoxa</i>) Butter Production and Resource Use by Urban and Rural Processors in Northern Ghana
Jasaw, Godfred Seidu; Saito, Osamu; Takeuchi, Kazuhiko - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 3592-3614
sites was higher than that used in rural sites. On the other hand, fuel wood use and labor expended were found to be higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212333