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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-1950s. The fastest growing activities have been those...

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The increasing demand for skilled workers in Australia: the role of technical change

Laine, Craig de; Laplagne, Patrick; Stone, Susan - EconWPA - 2001

been a shift toward employment of skilled workers in Australia, as well as in many other industrialised economies. While it … paper shows other factors are at work. Changing employment patterns are more closely associated with a pull toward skilled …

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Work Arrangements in the Australian Meat Processing Industry

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

This report examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of meat processing enterprises. The effects on employees are also considered, and the scope to achieve further necessary change is analysed. The study has drawn on information obtained from...

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Work arrangements in container stevedoring

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

This study examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of container stevedoring workplaces. The effects on employees and users of stevedoring services are also considered, and impediments to achieving improved work arrangements are analysed. This is...

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Micro Takes Over Macro

Gani, M - EconWPA - 2004

An analytical innovation enhances microeconomics, enabling it to answer all questions of macroeconomics. It combines …

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany … CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis …Using a recently developed model which allows to separate a few well- established employment effects of product and …

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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies

Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005

2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

wage debate. Employment might not be affected if firms are able to pass through to prices the higher labour costs …

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A Menu Of Minimum Wage Variables For Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence From Brazil

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

paper estimates the effects of the minimum wage on both wages and employment using panel data techniques and monthly … summarized in a “menu” of minimum wage variables. (2) An employment decomposition that separately estimates the effect of the … wages distribution with moderately small adverse effects on employment. …

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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

in addition to its social role. This paper estimates the effects of the minimum wage on employment using monthly … affected” and “Kaitz index” as a minimum wage variable; (3) The decomposition of the minimum wage employment effect into hours … moderately small adverse effects on employment. …

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