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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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The Employment Cycles of Neighboring Cities
Wall, Howard J. - 2011
This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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Agricultural Policy Reforms and Structural Adjustments in Bangladesh
Hasan, Mohammad Monirul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper depicts the agricultural policy reforms and structural changes in Bangladesh from independence to the present times. Bangladesh agriculture has experienced major structural changes and achieved major successes over the last three and a half decades. Reforms began in the late 1970s and...
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Clusterwettbewerbe: Eine Option für Entwicklungsländer?
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Cluster policy has gained remarkable prominence in regional and sectoral structural policy in industrialized countries. Instead of compensating for weaknesses it focuses on strengths in the local and regional economic structure. In Germany, handing out regional development funds in competitions...
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From smart specialisation to smart experimentation: Towards a new theoretical framework for EU regional policy
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The idea of smart specialisation has gained high prominence in the discourse about EU regional policy. In the coming program period from 2014 to 2020 it is expected to be a major pillar of EU structural funds. The notion of smart specialisation incorporates some basic principles of evolutionary...
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دور التغير التكنولوجى فى الطلب على العمالة الزراعية فى مصر
Shehata, Emad Abd Elmessih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The agricultural sector plays an important and a vital role in achieving the economic growth, furthermore, the labor input is considered one of the most important inputs in the economy, especially in the agricultural sector, which contribute in increasing production. Achieving the economic...
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تقدير الطلب على عنصر العمل البشرى فى الزراعة المصرية طبقاً للمنهج الثنائى
Atta, Sahra Khaleel; Shehata, Emad Abd Elmessih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
sector, that contributes in increasing production and employment, so the cycle of economic development must be pushed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260630
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Employee Responses to Health Insurance Premium Increases
Goldman, Dana; Leibowitz, Arleen; Robalino, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Objective: To determine the sensitivity of employees’ health insurance decisions—including the decision to not choose health maintenance organization or fee-for-service coverage—during periods of rapidly escalating healthcare costs. Study Design: A retrospective cohort study of employee...
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Market Mechanism and Skill Premiums in the UK 1972-2002
Peng, Fei; Kang, Lili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the effect of shifts in the relative supply and demand of skills on the skill premiums and wage inequality in the British labour market 1972-2002. We test the Katz and Murphy (1992) hypothesis that the changes of skill premiums can be explained by their relative supply...
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Labor demand stability and the minimum wage effect on employment: The Chilean evidence
Miranda Pinto, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
characterized by an increase in the employment-GDP elasticity. Additionally, separating labor demand by sectors, I find evidence of … a stronger negative impact of the minimum wages on employment in the tradable sector in the late nineties. A minimum … highlight the importance of the economic growth on employment generation as well as the cost of not considering the business …
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