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Competition vs. monopoly in the religious marketplace : Judaism in the United States and Israel
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2013
Economic analysis is used to compare different paradigms for understanding the marketplace for religions and religious ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to grant monopoly power to an official state religion. The "New Paradigm" views separation of Church...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009699440
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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure
Ghosh, Arghya (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor);  … - 2007
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571666
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"Make-or-buy" of peripheral services in manufacturing : evidence from Spanish plant-level data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2013
industry. -- make-or-buy ; peripheral services ; manufacturing ; market share ; competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683002
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Do market pressures induce economic efficiency : the case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994 - 2001
Orazem, Peter F. (contributor); Vodopivec, Milan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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What drives differences in management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany
Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Campaner, Annika - 2017
Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...
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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015
data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells …
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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The yen exchange rate and the hollowing out of the Japanese industry
Belke, Ansgar; Volz, Ulrich - 2019
, the paper uses both aggregate and industry‐specific data to gauge the effects of yen fluctuations on the output and … exports of different Japanese industries, exploiting new data for industry‐specific real effective exchange rates. Our … that have contributed to a hollowing out of Japanese industry, a strong yen played a role, too. …
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Capital accumulation and unemployment : new insights on the Nordic experience
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2007
This paper takes a fresh look at the analysis of labour market dynamics and argues that capital accumulation plays a fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. This role has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission channels of the capital stock effects, i.e. using...
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