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The transport sector is one of the most important sectors for the European economy. Its importance stems not only from its size - which is estimated to be € 803 billion or 6.6% of European GDP in 2007 - but also from the fact that it plays a crucial role in connecting other economic actors...
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Total employment in the printing, publishing, and recorded media industry in 2006 amounted to 1.91 million jobs, which … is equivalent to 0.87% of overall EU employment and 5.54% of EU manufacturing employment. The printing and publishing … sector is a fairly important sector in terms for employment for most regions across the EU. Employment is most concentrated …
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natural resources (e.g. silica sand, clay, natural stone and rock) into marketable products. Overall employment in the EU in … the non-metallic materials sector amounted to 1.62 million people, which is 0.74% overall employment and 4.72% of overall … manufacturing employment in the EU. …
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Total employment for the sector aggregate Furniture and other industries amounted to 2,007,000 persons in 2006 in the … EU. Almost three-fourth of employment was concentrated in the furniture sector. The jewellery sector accounted for 6% of … total employment. Two-third of employment in furniture is still in the ‘old’ Member States, with Germany being ranked first …
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The chemicals industry is a major contributor to the EU economy in terms of output, value-added, employment, and (net …
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Post and telecoms were amongst the most changing sectors of the 1990s. Both sectors have now been privatised and opened up to competition following EU liberalisation law. The EU employed about 3.3 million post and telecoms workers in 2006. A large share of them, 83%, was working in the EU-15 and...
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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
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for introducing them is to make employment more likely for those who currently do not work. Given the extent of the …
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We use UK administrative data to estimate the differential in labour market outcomes between Ethnic Minority benefit claimants and otherwise identical Whites. In many cases, Minorities and Whites are simply too different for satisfactory estimates to be calculated and results are sensitive to...
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presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … of the model proposed by Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2005), which separates employment growth rates into … those associated with old and new products, we provide robust evidence that there is no employment displacement effect …
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