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contribution of the new, private firms in the Czech Republic to find that production and employment in the clothing industry …
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I present and solve the problem of a producer who faces costs of acquiring, absorbing, and processing information. I establish a series of theoretical results describing the producer's behaviour. First, I find the conditions under which she prefers to set a plan for the price she charges, or...
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and production decisions. We show how this methodology can be used to determine an optimal sequence of price …. We compare and contrast the high-low model with the conventional microeconomic model of pricing and production. We show … how the firm uses its pricing and production decisions to partition the uncertainty interval it faces and thereby …
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than output, while employment shows a persistent decline. This finding has raised doubts concerning the relevance of the … economy, the flexible price RBC model can match the negative conditional correlation between productivity and employment quite …
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The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work – the move from occupational specialization towards multi-tasking – for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes...
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This paper examines the implications of labour force growth in one region for wages, employment, and production … linkages between labour force growth in one region and real wage and employment erosion in another are derived. These …
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The paper analyzes a variety of government policies that can stimulate employment when unemployment is generated … may be ineffective. We show how supply side policies can stimulate employment by raising worker productivity or reducing … effect on employment unless these policies stimulate labor productivity, the entry of firms, capital utilization or …
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This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a)improve employment and welfare, (b)do not raise earnings inequality …
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have been associated with employment cuts. Somewhat surprisingly, firm exits did not contribute significantly to aggregate …
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product and in labour markets, in the determination of sectoral employment growth in Italy during the last forty years (1951 … markets were quantitatively more important than changes in product markets in the determination of sectoral employment growth … remained constant after 1973, our simulations suggest that, on average, industrial and service employment would have been …
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