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A sectoral analysis of Ontario's weak productivity growth
Spiro, Peter S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
than the rest of Canada or the United States. This is obviously a cause for concern. Productivity is an important measure …, the higher productivity growth in retail and wholesale trade in the rest of Canada was associated with growth in sales …Ontario's private sector has had zero productivity growth in the latest six year period. Ontario performed much worse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110381
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The Nature of Innovation Channels at the Micro-Level : Evidence from Russian Manufacturing Firms
Simachev, Yuri; Kuzyk, Mikhail; Feygina, Vera - 2013
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153492
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The challenges of upgrading and diversifying Vietnam's industrial structure
Nguyen, Binh Giang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This research attempts to look into how the weaknesses and shortcomings in soft and hard infrastructure have been the obstacles to the upgrading and diversification of industrial structure in Viet Nam. It is important to overview the status of key industries before examining what elements of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258631
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دور بورصة النيل فى تنمية المشروعات الصغيرة والمتوسطة فى مصر
Alasrag, Hussien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in the Egyptian economy, in term of their contribution to the GDP and total employment. Yet, their contribution in capital formation is very limited, mainly because of the finance constraints they face. Consequently, to improve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616757
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Regional inflation and industrial structure in monetary union
Nagayasu, Jun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
It is often argued that an optimal currency area requires homogeneous regional inflation. However, previous empirical studies point out heterogeneity in sectoral inflation and geographical concentration of industries within a monetary union. It follows that there must be a difference in regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110147
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Industrial structure and productivities in a two-sector growth model
Guo, Lu; Li, Fangfang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We set up a model of heterogeneous-producers based on the semi-rival technology to study how industrial structure transforms and different sectional productivities. In a fully market-oriented economy, the industrial structure is endogenous and sectional productivities are the same. Employing...
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Technological practices in the European auto industry: Exploring cases from Belgium, Germany and Portugal
Moniz, António; Krings, Bettina; Van Hootegem, Geert; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The relation between work organisation and technological practices in auto industry is analysed in this article. The concept of “technological practice” in this sector is used to describe the specific ways of embedding information and communication technology applications into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789412
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What is the Social Economy?
Lans, Cheryl - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This concept paper reviews the various definitions of the social economy in Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211864
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A Search for a Measure of the Quality of Life on Prince Edward Island: An Inter-Provincial ‘Cost of Living’ Inquiry
Baldacchino, Godfrey; Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Canada has to do with the differential ‘purchasing power’ of their residents? Although the mean level of earnings/income per … ‘household financial health’, and use this to compare the state of affairs in the various provinces of Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260297
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Canadian Oil Sands Investments: FOCUS on a Controversial Energy Source
Palombizio, Ennio A.; Borchert, Jan Moritz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
satisfy demand. A large portion of the oil sands are located in Canada and this gives Canada an opportunity to improve its … economy. Since the discovery, Canada has seen a vast influx in investment for the purpose of extracting these oil deposits …
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