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Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within …-unemployment provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on … employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …
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This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in...
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Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China … rapid technological progress. At the same time, the share of labor in national income decreased in most advanced countries …. This paper uses a labor share equation derived from a translog revenue function to estimate the contributions of …
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Using a production function method, this paper assesses the impact of the global crisis on the potential growth of Australia and New Zealand. The two countries have not been hit hard by the global crisis, but have large net external liabilities. The paper finds that the main negative impact of...
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This paper develops a model of the process of reallocation of labor from the state sector to the private sector. When …
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size to set up a quasi-experiment and data from the French labor force survey, we show that the law constrained the choice …
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standard (Solow-style) growth accounting methodologies. We find that factor accumulation (especially labor), rather than growth … of capital accumulation and some natural constraints on labor, the strong growth momentum is unlikely to be sustainable …
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