We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand “jobless” growthin Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, fortyyears of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of largeexporting plants with...

In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkablywell in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simplerank-size rule known as Zipf´s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is thechurning of industries...

This paper presents an evaluation of Supply Chain Management Software. For this purpose, we conducted an empirical study in the European automotive industry among car manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and logistic service providers from 25 countries. In particular, we analysed the...

In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir ökonomische Ansätze zur Bewertung alternativer Kooperationsformen in Supply-Chains. Dabei soll insbesondere gezeigt werden, dass diese Bewertungen dieGrundlage für eine Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalyse des überbetrieblichen Einsatzes von Informations- und...