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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice

Kimble, Chris; Barlow, Alexis; Li, Feng - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place in the business environment which force people and organisations to operate in 'two spaces'...

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Trade, Poverty and Employment: The Social Consequences of Integration with China

Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

, income distribution, welfare and employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. To this end, partial … used for the first time to estimate labor demand-output and wage elasticities in order to estimate the effects of an … agreement with China on sectoral and aggregate employment rates. According to this, trade with the PRC did not have a …

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Trade Liberalization and Employment in the Moroccan Manufacturing Sector

ACHY, Lahcen; SEKKAT, Khalid - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses firm level data to investigate the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing sector employment in … magnitude of employment response following trade liberalization reforms. Our empirical results indicate that technology, as … measured by capital intensity, and the share of new capital matters relatively more than trade in accounting for employment …

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Tango with the Dragon: Employment Effects of Trade Integration with China. The Case of Argentina

Castro, Lucio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …

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Pig and pigmeat industries: safeguard action against imports

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 26 June 1998 the Treasurer referred the question of whether safeguard action is warranted against imports of meat of swine, frozen, falling within tariff sub-heading 0203.29 of the Australian Customs Tariff. The Productivity Commission is to report within 140 days (or earlier) and is to hold...

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IMPORTING JOBS AND EXPORTING FIRMS? ON THE WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF ITALY’S TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS

Helg, Rodolfo; Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M.; … - EconWPA - 2001

power of trade unions and contributed to wage moderation. …

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IMPORTING JOBS AND EXPORTING FIRMS? ON THE WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF ITALY’S TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS

Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M.; Galeotti, Marzio; … - EconWPA - 2001

power of trade unions and contributed to wage moderation. …

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Narrowing the US twin deficits: simulations with a world macroeconometric model

Bagnai, Alberto; Galli, Silvia; Pierucci, Eleonora; … - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper we extend the macroeconometric model developed in Bagnai (2004) by linking it to a submodel for the Japanese economy, and we utilize this extended model to investigate several hypotheses of reduction in the US twin deficits. The Japanese submodel is specified and estimated along...

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