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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence
Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005
independent of the novelty degree. Moreover, different employment effects between manufacturing and service firms regarding …Using a recently developed model which allows to separate a few well- established employment effects of product and … process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118792
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125720
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Trends in Australian Manufacturing
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407814
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An interaction model for livestock farming and steppe ecosystem // “Mathematical Modeling of Ecological Systems” Almaty: Daik-Press, 2003. – 160 p. Abstracts. P.26.
Demberel S.; Olenev, Nicholas; Pospelov, Igor - EconWPA - 2003
This work builds a macro model for livestock farming based on aggregation of initial micro description for rational control of total number of vintage livestock (age cohorts). All variety of animal kinds is reduced to one by given recount coefficients. An optimal problem on co-hort total number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125668
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Economy and Environment Interaction // Moscow: Dorodnicyn Computing Centre Russian Ac. Sc., 2003. 40p. (In Russian)
Demberel S.; Olenev, Nicholas; Pospelov, Igor - EconWPA - 2003
This paper presents new results of mathematical modeling of economy and environment interaction . A model of mutual interaction of livestock farming - one in a two main agricultural branches - and natural pastures that are the essential part of livestock farming forage reserve is proposed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062754
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An interaction model for livestock farming and steppe ecosystem
Demberel S.; Olenev, Nicholas; Pospelov, Igor - EconWPA - 2003
This work builds a macro model for livestock farming based on aggregation of initial micro description for rational control of total number of vintage livestock (age cohorts). Solution of an optimal problem on cohort total number of livestock gives the age limit for the operation of animals, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408270
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Connections, Specialization, & Lawsuits: The Influence of Human and Social Capital Formation in the Legal Profession
Larrosa, Juan M.C. - EconWPA - 2005
Legal profession represents a key labor sector whether in politics or business in any developed or underdeveloped country. What resources do lawyers use for matching the demand to their own services’ supply? Private sector lawyers make use of their level of human capital and their social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556848
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Contract Duration and the Division of Labor in Agricultural Land Leases
Yoder, Jonathan; Hossain, Ishrat; Eppin, Francis - EconWPA - 2005
Short-term contracts provide weak incentives for durable input investment if post-contract asset transfer is difficult. Our model shows that when both agents provide inputs, optimal contract length balances weak incentives of one agent against the other. This perspective broadens the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118926
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The market for cocoa powder
Kox, Henk. L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
The paper analyses the forces that shape demand and supply processes in the market for cocoa powder. A brief statistical summary is given of the main trends in international demand and production, and the spatial shifts in cocoa processing. Ample attention is given to the role of technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076863
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Holiday Price Rigidity and Cost of Price Adjustment
Levy, Daniel; Muller, Georg; Dutta, Shantanu; Bergen, Mark - EconWPA - 2004
Using unique retail and wholesale price data for 4,532 products carried by a major Midwestern grocery retailer, we find evidence of significant retail price rigidity during the Thanksgiving through Christmas holiday period relative to the rest of the year. We suggest that this pattern of holiday...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126197