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Globalisation and employment in the EU electrical industry : a case study with emphasis on Germany

Diehl, Markus - 2000

The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s is analysed in order to test the hypothesis that the competitive pressure from low-income countries has led to the observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled...

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Technological advance, social fragmentation and welfare

Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020

This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...

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Exporting and the environment : a new look with micro-data

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Hanley, Aoife (contributor); … - 2008

innovation as having a 'high' or 'very high' environmental effect. Our findings also show that exporters are 17.5 percent more … likely, all things equal, to report that their firm's innovation cuts the cost of energy/ materials. Our results agree with … wider output base -- Exporting ; environment ; innovation ; heterogeneity …

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Innovation and productivity in European industries

Pianta, Mario (contributor); Vaona, Andrea (contributor) - 2006

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining … data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …

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Do labour market institutions matter? : Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries

Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2008

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...

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Changes in the balance of power between the wage and price setters and the Central Bank : consequences for the Phillips curve and the NAIRU

Kromphardt, Jürgen (contributor); … - 2007

In this paper we introduce and test the hypothesis that the relation between inflation and unemployment has been in many countries subject to a significant change in the early 1990's after the disinflation period. That period began between 1975 and 1980 after the first (or the second) oil price...

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Regional unemployment structure and new firm formation

Audretsch, David B.; Dohse, Dirk; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2014

Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among researchers for decades the answers yielded so far are ambiguous and inconclusive. The paper proposes an innovative approach that takes not only interregional...

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Transitions in the stock markets of the US, UK, and Germany

Raddant, Matthias; Wagner, Friedrich - 2014

In this paper we analyze transitions in the stock markets of the US, the UK, and Germany. For all this markets we find that while the markets were focused on stocks from the IT and technology sector around the year 2000, this focus has vanished and the markets have mostly moved towards a focus...

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Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung : das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten und des Vereinigten Königreichs

Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001

Im Rahmen eines Vergleichs der amerikanischen und britischen Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung wird gezeigt, daß das amerikanische System, auch anders als das deutsche, eine negative Rückkopplung zwischen den Ausgaben für die Arbeitslosenversicherung und der Höhe der Freisetzung von...

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Labour supply and labour force participation in Europe : a discussion of some recent developments and projections

Chagny, Odile; Döpke, Jörg; Plane, Mathieu; Schmidt, … - 2001

The prospects for labour supply in Europe are considered. The analysis begins with a so-called labour market balance covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force participation are given in the second part of the...

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