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Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can …, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt backward technology, at the cost of reduced economic growth …. Alternatively, unemployment diminishes because productivity grows by employing workers who prefer to become skilled, and thus not to …
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be called Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. This is a phenomenon not seen before in social history, simply because … around for a while as we all live our lives. I illustrate the relevance of this new concept of unemployment to the U …
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, leading to the emergence of Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. We illustrate the relevance of this new concept of … unemployment to the U.S economy in the first decade of the 21st Century. This helps achieve a deeper understanding of the current …
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It is well known from the literature that a unionisation of labour markets leads to an increase in wages and a decrease in employment. However, in these models human capital formation is usually taken as given. This paper internalises the education decision and shows that a unionisation of the...
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employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment … that a persistent lack of demand is responsible for the major part of the German unemployment problem. … und Lohn-bedingten Arbeitslosigkeit in Frage stellen. Es deutet vielmehr einiges darauf hin, dass die hohe …
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lack of compensating differentials for unemployment risk can arise in equilibrium when all workers are identical, and firms … differ, but do so only in offered job security (the probability that the worker is not sent into unemployment). In a setting … the distribution of firm-level unemployment risk. As a result, unemployment spells become persistent for low-wage and …
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In the first part of article the theory of product lifecycle were presented. Then the main features of e-commerce which …
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The article considers the science problem of identification of a life cycle of an economic agent in particular and of organizational-economic system in general. As an alternative solution of this problem the author proposes to use an universal index – stability index, which is directly linked...
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The wealth distribution in the U.S. is more unequal, or skewed to the right, than either the income or earnings distribution, a fact current models of saving behavior have difficulty explaining. Using Max Weber's (1905) idea that individuals may have a `capitalist spirit', I construct and...
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In the last years, broad changes have contributed to the enhancement of the importance of the logistics as a source of competitive advantage, not just for increasing the satisfaction of the clients, but also for improving the performance of the firms. Nevertheless, the response functions of the...
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