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Australian manufacturing is a picture of diversity and contrasts. This is the main finding of this paper which examines … trends in the Australian manufacturing sector over the last two decades. Manufacturing output has quadrupled since the mid …
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An exogenous impact function is defined as the derivative of a structural function with respect to an endogenous variable, other variables, including unobservable variables held fixed. Unobservable variables are fixed at specific quantiles of their marginal distributions. Exogenous impact...
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This paper studies the estimation of conditional quantiles of counts. Given the discreteness of the data, some smoothness has to be artificially imposed on the problem. The methods currently available to estimate quantiles of count data either assume that the counts result from the...
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This article looks at the effects of office mechanisation in greater detail by describing data processing innovations in major building societies during the dawn of the computer era. Reference to similar developments in clearing banks, industrial and computer organisations provides evidence as...
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This paper investigates the effects of exchange rate fluctuations on Turkish manufacturing employment and wages using … data for a panel of manufacturing industries over the period 1981-1999. The net effect of depreciations are found to be … of Turkish manufacturing industries on foreign inputs overcomes the positive effect of depreciations on competitiveness. …
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of Mexico and the United States with special reference to the manufacturing sector. The authors examine the dependency … also make a comparative analysis between the labor markets of the manufacturing industries in both countries. …
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The study is an empirical analysis of the role of FDI in India's manufacturing exports during the period 1990-1 - 2003 …-4. The study assumes importance in view of the fact that manufacturing export constitutes 60 per cent of the total exports in … factor influencing manufacturing exports. GDP as a proxy for domestic demands; world income and unit value of exports …
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This study assesses the impact across states of for-export, mostly foreign-owned manufacturing plants (commonly known …
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The concentration of spatial economic activities, especially in manufacturing industries has become an interesting … phenomenon to be analyzed. In manufacturing industries, spatial concentration is determined by wages, transportation cost, market … this paper is to describe where the concentration of East Java manufacturing industries is, how the locational distribution …
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this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how …
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