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This paper investigates the impact of offshoring on export performances of French, German and Italian automotive firms …. We argue that the different offshoring strategies run by the main European automakers are responsible for the … panel data analysis and show that offshoring strongly affect exports of automotive firms. Focussing on the French and German …
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With production activity tending rapidly towards international fragmentation, this study examines the consequences for labour countries of the forms of specialisation brought about by fragmentation processes. It further addresses the risk that fragmented sectors may become excluded from greater...
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inflation, both as an objective and as an intermediate instrument. We want to show that other variables like employment can be … that they can be function of employment only, which then dominates inflation for use in the policy rule. …
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This paper examines the effects of tourism on labor employment, capital accumulation and resident welfare for a small … open economy with unemployment. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital …
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composite goods from private firms. Such a policy unambiguously increases employment. It also raises private consumption and … employment, welfare and private consumption rise. We provide magnitudes for different parameter values. …
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This paper analyses the response of labor input to technology shocks in an estimated two-stage production framework with both price and wage stickiness and stage-specific shocks to productivity. Our model features a vertical input-output structure with imperfect mobility of labors across stages....
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This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the … period 1960-2000. It is argued that public employment had an important crowding out e¤ect on the private sector and increased …
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Most studies on the green tax reform issue point out that environmental taxes exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions, thereby increasing the welfare costs associated with the overall tax code. As a result, the optimal environmental tax should lie below the Pigovian level (or marginal social...
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This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …
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strategy. This paper evaluates the e®ect of this policy on employment and also on output and welfare. We construct an …
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