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full employment policy in Canada. A brief critique of existing spatial labor market methods is presented. The focus of this … with Brechling-type models. It is argued, on the basis of the derived results, that a full employment policy would … substantially benefit regions with already high levels of unemployment. However, it also appears that many depressed regions would …
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This paper re-examines the link between new firm formation and subsequent employment growth. It investigates whether it … negative subsequent employment growth. It uses a very similar approach to that of Fritsch and Mueller (2004), confirming their … findings that the employment impact of new firm formation is in three discrete phases. Then, using data for Great Britain, the …
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Non-production workers are an increasing proportion of total manufacturing employment. Lower labor productivity has … causes changes in the composition of employment. Industry and geographical variations are, in fact, found in the significance … this article is not available in ORA. Citation: Clark, G. L. (1984). 'The changing composition of regional employment …
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The impact of labor on interstate wage relativities are analyzed in this paper. Migration, unemployment, and employment … found that in and out gross migration may increase or decrease relative wages as may employment growth. As expected …, increasing unemployment tends to induce decreases in average relative wages. The model is analyzed over the period 1958 …
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involving changes in the inflation and monetary-policy regimes: the move to floating exchange rates following the breakdown of … throughout the industrialized world a decade later. In the case of the float, inflation which had been rising since the mid-1960s …. Following the shifts to less expansive domestic policy, inflation peaked in most of those same countries and has continued to …
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This paper examines the welfare effects of trade liberalisation and economic growth in an economy which is large enough to influence world prices and in which trade is restricted by both tariffs and quotas. I derive general expressions for shadow prices of goods and foreign exchange and use them...
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Regional policy has taken the centre stage in delivering current UK government efforts to promote productivity-driven economic growth. This article considers the validity of the prime indicator being used to assess regional economic performance: gross value added (GVA) per head. Evidence...
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