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Offshoring and export performance in the european automotive industry
Chiappini, Raphaël - HAL - 2011
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 … discrepancies in export performances of France, Germany and Italy on the world automotive market. We use an export equation and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368019
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Fragmentation and immiserising specialisation : the case of the textile and clothing sector
Gimet, Céline; Guilhon, Bernard; Roux, Nathalie - HAL - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791198
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Why is the gender wage gap in Japan so large compared with France? : a comparison based on decomposition analysis
Hori, Haruhiko; Nohara, Hiroatsu - HAL - 2006
countries : France, an industrialized country where the disparities between sexes are outstandingly small, and Japan, where they … comparison with France. It has been designed as follows. In section 1, we begin by comparing the general features of labour … markets in Japan and France. When it comes to the gender wage gaps, it is necessary to take the general structure of wages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790464
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New technologies and firm organization : the case of electronic traceability systems in French agribusiness
Galliano, Danielle; Orozco, Luis - HAL - 2013
This paper considers the relationship between the adoption of electronic traceability systems (ETSs) and the organization of firms. More precisely, it analyzes the respective roles of a firm's organizational structure, and organizational changes, in the process of ETS adoption in agribusiness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898917
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Routinization-Biased Technical Change, Globalization and Labor Market Polarization: Does Theory Fit the Facts?
Jung, Jaewon; Mercenier, Jean - HAL - 2010
There is now ample evidence that jobs and wages have been polarizing at the extremes of the skill distribution since the early 90s. Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) have suggested that this might be due to technology substituting more easily for labor in performing routine rather than non-routine...
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The environment and directed technical change : comment
Hourcade, Jean Charles; Pottier, Antonin; Espagne, Etienne - HAL - 2011
This paper discusses the growth model with environmental constraints recently presented in (Acemoglu et al., 2011) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First, Acemoglu et al.'s model and chosen parameters yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026128
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Mitigation strategies and energy technology learning: an assessment with the POLES model
Criqui, Patrick; Mima, Silvana; Menanteau, Philippe; … - HAL - 2014
This paper explores various dimensions of the learning process for low-carbon technologies under different mitigation scenarios. It uses the POLES model, which addresses learning as an endogenous phenomenon with learning curves, and a set of scenarios developed as part of the AMPERE project. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780807
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The economics of changing course: implications of adaptability and inertia for optimal climate policy.
Grubb, Michael; Thierry, Chapuis; Ha-Duong, Minh - HAL - 1995
This paper reviews evidence that energy technologies and systems adapt over time to accomodate external pressures: that technical innovation and systemic change in the energy sector is largely induced by need, and restrained by potentially large transitional costs. A simple integrated model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791872
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Prospects for the hydrogen transition based on the network economic approach : Insights from the electricity and gas experience in Europe
Bento, Nuno - HAL - 2007
This paper aims to investigate the transition to a new energy system based on hydrogen in the European liberalized framework. After analyzing the literature on the hydrogen infrastructure needs in Europe, we estimate the size and scope of the transition challenge.We take the theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792179
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Entrepreneurship turnover and endogenous returns to ability
Crifo, Patricia; Sami, Hind - HAL - 2008
This paper proposes a model of entrepreneurial turnover highlighting a non-monotone relationship between technological change and ability-biased sorting into entrepreneurial types. Entrepreneurial decisions are examined in a two-stage model under uncertainty in which entrepreneurs decide to...
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