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Industrial efficiency and state intervention : Labour 1939-51

Tiratsoo, Nick; Tomlinson, Jim - 1993 - 1. publ.

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The production of technologists and robotization in Japan

Morishima, Michio - 1985

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National and Regional Factors in the New York Metropolitan Economy

MacCarthy, Jonathan; Steindel, Charles - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

This paper explores the connections betweenbroad economic indicators in the New Yorkmetropolitan region and their national counterparts.It compares the performance of theregion in recent years with that of the nation and assessesthe importance of national and local developments for thearea’s...

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Industrial Restructuring in the New York Metropolitan Area

Orr, James - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

[...]This paper analyzes the industrial restructuringprocess in the New York metropolitan area in the first halfof the 1990s.1 It shows that the restructuring was accompaniedby a decline in the labor force, particularly in NewYork, where the decline persisted through the first half ofthe 1990s....

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Business Services and the Economic Performance of the New York Metropolitan Region

Noyelle, Thierry - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

1989. This discrepancy does indicatesteady gains in overall productivity for the metropolitanregion as a result of both a … continuing change inindustry mix (from lower-productivity to higher-productivityindustries) and productivity gains within …

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The Securities Industry and the New York–New Jersey Region

Cantor, Richard - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

The securities industry in the New York–New Jerseyregion is currently enjoying strong growth in employmentand salaries. The industry is particularly important to theregion because it is concentrated locally and pays highwages. Although vulnerable to stock and bond marketfluctuations, the...

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The Outlook for the Metropolitan Area

Netzer, Dick - New York University / Department of Economics; London … - 1997

Much of the discourse about regional andlocal economic development strategiesin the United States over the pasttwenty-five years has looked like asearch for general rules. Very few such rules have emerged,in part because—like all policy debates—there have beenlarge inputs of ideology and...

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Social Indicators and the Study of Inequality

Meyers, Marcia K.; Garfinkel, Irwin - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

[...]The New York City Social Indicators Survey (SIS)project represents one effort to track the consequences ofpolicy reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses a telephone survey to collect data from arepeated...

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The Anglo-German Productivity Puzzle, 1895-1935: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution

Ritschl, Albrecht - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

Recent research on international productivity comparisons has focused on the discrepancies between benchmark … productivity lead of 50 percent, evidence that they therefore discard. The present paper revisits this Anglo-German productivity … Germany’s industrial production series. I also calculate a revised 1907 productivity benchmark. Both the revised extrapolation …

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Origins of Catch-up Failure: Comparative Productivity Growth in the Hapsburg Empire, 1870-1910

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth … capital growth, it seeks to address three questions: First, what was the role of labour productivity growth in per capita … labour productivity growth in Austria-Hungary as compared to Germany? The paper argues that, in contrast to the Hungarian …

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