dual labour market * the relative stagnancy of Europe versus the USA in terms of productivity levels and unemployment … efficiency-wage considerations Growth, Unemployment and Deindustrialization will be of paramount interest to scholars of … endogenous growth theory, economic growth and unemployment, labour market economics and industrial organization …

of wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the relatively low productivity growth experienced … technological revolution, describe why this does not necessarily result in high productivity growth and outline the best methods to … measure productivity in the new economy. This exhaustive exploration of productivity growth and wage inequality between high …

Analysis of infrastructure's role in facilitating international trade and consequently regional economic integration is … of the implementation of trade-related infrastructure facilities and their impacts on poverty, trade, investment and …Infrastructure and trade in Asia : an overview / Douglas H. Brooks and Jayant Menon -- A framework for considering …

productivity and the re-organization of work in the global car industry …Introducing the myth of Japanese efficiency -- Wide selection : a myth encountered -- Production malapropisms : the BMW … totalizing myth : Japanese efficiency as a cultural fiction …

1. Introduction : what is the New Economy? / Dennis W. Jansen -- 2. Projecting productivity growth : lessons from the … multifactor productivity in US service industries / Jack E. Triplett and Barry P. Bosworth -- 4. The New Economy and the …

This book elaborates a new dependent and localized growth theory based upon knowledge externalities by making two … important contributions. Firstly, it elaborates the hypothesis that total factor productivity growth stems from pecuniary …

, economic growth in China must transform from an inputs-driven pattern, to a productivity-driven pattern. Academics, researchers …