of labour increased dramatically in Tunisia as women entered the labour market. This allowed importable employment to be …This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that …

manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971– 96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment …This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian …, output, quasi-fixed capital stock and technology. The empirical results show that in the long run, employment demand responds …

assume that as competition increases industries adjust their employment to a desired level which is both industry and time … manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. …This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries …

-tech manufacturing but absent in the more traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment …After discussing theory regarding the consequences of technological change on employment and surveying previous … unique longitudinal database covering 677 European manufacturing and service firms over the period 1990-2008. The main …

This study is concerned with the development of a theoretical model and its empirical application to the estimation of … the interaction between firms and trade union in determining wages and employment. The focus is on analyzing the effects … wages and capital stock, conditional on which the firm decides on production factors of employment, working hours and …

Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less …

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North … imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP. We allow these contributions to differ and … show that openness has a greater impact on TFP growth than R&D. These results imply that the impact of openness on TFP in …