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Information Structure and Behaviour of a Textile Industrial District
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
This article presents a model of the structure of the information flows that underlie the creation of production chains between thousands of small textile firms located in Prato, central Italy. Contrary to most textile industry of western Europe and north America, Prato did not die out once...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556226
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Las regiones europeas: una tipología basada en técnicas multivariantes
Bárbara, Díaz; Eugenia, Cruces; Antonio, Morillas - EconWPA - 2005
En este trabajo se utiliza la información estadística referente a los indicadores regionales, suministrada por Eurostat, para elaborar una clasificación y caracterizar el espacio socioeconómico europeo en base a los mencionados indicadores, que, como se sabe, se refieren básicamente a datos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119024
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Recent Trends in Border Economics
Jr, Thomas M Fullerton - EconWPA - 2004
Greater cross-border economic integration in many regions has caused the field of border economics to expand rapidly. It has also occurred as a consequence of growing recognition of the necessity to examine economic phenomena within the unique contexts imposed by geo-political market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119042
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Firm Heterogeneity and Worker Turnover
Lane, Julia I.; Isaac, Alan G.; Stevens, David W. - EconWPA - 1996
unique data set on enterprise employment. We describe sectoral difference in turnover rates and in the persistence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556831
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Why Are There Explicit Contracts of Employment?
James, Harvey; Johnson, Derek - EconWPA - 2002
In this paper we explain the prevalence of explicit contracts of employment, particularly those that embody high … agency characterized in and supported by the common law. The implication is that implicit employment contracts supported by … the common law are incapable of effectively governing employment relationship characterized by these two problems. Thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076642
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Is corporatism feasible?
Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076716
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What ever happened to Germany? Is the decline of the former European key currency country caused by structural sclerosis or by macroeconomic mismanagement?
Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - EconWPA - 2005
employment and growth cannot unambiguously be derived from modern labour market theory and are at least partially at odds with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076737
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Do study grants help refugees find jobs? A case study of the effects of the voluntary sector grants on the education, training and employment of refugees in the United Kingdom
Ilmolelian, Peter - EconWPA - 2005
not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … positive relationship between the level of study and the probability of later employment. Although the differences in subject … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076935
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The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia
Laplange, Patrick; Glover, Maurice; Fry, Tim - EconWPA - 2005
This Productivity Commission staff working paper, The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia, was released in … examine developments in employment relationships and the implications of these developments for the labour force and the … employment contribute to the Australian economy. This paper examines how the rapid growth of labour hire employment can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125696
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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries
Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005
This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
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