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Unit labour costs in Malta: Trends and international comparisons

Grech, Aaron George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Appraisals of international competitiveness are increasingly focusing on unit labour costs. In this paper, a unit labour costs measure is derived for the Maltese economy for the last two decades. In order to take into account structural shifts, separate indices are also derived for the effective...

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Industria e distretti produttivi in Sicilia tra incentivi e sviluppo

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

One hundred and fifty years after the unification of Italy, the Mezzogiorno and Sicily, in particular, continue to be severely lagging behind the rest of Italy and its most developed part. This paper focuses on the productive districts regarding the industry to the light of the first three years...

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Competitiveness of India's Manufacturing Sector: An Assessment of Related Issues

L, lakshmanan; S, Chinngaihlian; Raj, Rajesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper provides an analytical abstract of various parameters of manufacturing competitiveness of the Indian economy. India's manufacturing exports have risen impressively in the past decade or so and found to be directly linked to the world GDP and inversely related to real effective...

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Impacto económico del Supermercadismo

Zipitría, Leandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This article presents a brief review of the literature on the effect of supermarkets on productivity, employment, the survival of small retailers, prices, and competition in retailing. The following stylized facts emerge: (1) the retail sector has undergone a major concentration around the...

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Evolución de la Eficiencia Productiva de una empresa privatizada: El Caso del Grupo Telefónica de España

Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

ser privatizada. Se ha utilizado este caso por ser una empresa representativa en la industria de las telecomunicaciones … productividad más altos cuando pasan a ser privadas, en un contexto de competencia y liberalización. Esta investigación busca … Productividad Global (IPG), Productividad Parcial del Trabajo (IPAT) y del Capital (IPAC), además de los indicadores financieros ROA …

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Innovation, exports and technical efficiency in Spain

Diaz-Mayans, M. Angeles; Sánchez, Rosario; R - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyses the relationship between exports, innovative activities and size and their effect over firms’ technical efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect productivity as industrial sector, or firms’...

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Firm heterogeneity in TFP, sectoral innovation and geography. Evidence from Italy

Aiello, Francesco; Pupo, Valeria; Ricotta, Fernanda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Sectoral and territorial specificities affect the firm’s capabilities of being productive. While there is a wide consensus on this, a quantitative measure of the these effects has been lacking. To this end, we combine a dataset of Italian firms with some meso regional and sectoral variables...

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Bank competition and export diversification

Nakhoda, Aadil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The role of the banking industry in export promotion cannot be over-emphasized as banks provide the necessary financial support for borrowers in various industries to undertake investment activities. The banking industry consists of larger and smaller banks and the former are likely to be the...

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Die Transformation des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes in Berlin/Brandenburg unter Berücksichtigung der Exporte : eine empirische Analyse mit amtlichen Mikrodaten

Mangelsdorf, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

20 years have elapsed since the peaceful protest movement led to the resignation of the old regime in the German Democratic Republic. In the following year both German states reunited. Due to the special situation in Germany the subsequent transformation process is unique within the former...

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ICTs and lags in technical efficiency gains. A stochastic frontier approach over a panel of Italian manufacturing firms

Castiglione, Concetta; Infante, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper analyses the relationship between investment in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Technical Efficiency (TE). It uses a panel dataset of Italian manufacturing firms during the period 1995-2003. In contrast to much of the existing literature which focuses on the...

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