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This paper provides estimates of price-marginal cost ratios for manufacturing and services sectors in the Eurozone, the …
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This paper provides new evidence for the servitization of European manufacturing – the trend that manufacturing firms … manufacturing industries increased in the large majority of European countries between 1995 and 2005 and between 2000 and 2005 …. Service output of manu-facturing, however, is still small compared to the output of physical products. The highest service …
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In this paper we use both the standard Census of Manufacturing data and new linked information on worker … characteristics for the Finnish manufacturing plants to examine the skilled/unskilled relative demand and its correlation with … database to the plants in the Census of Manufacturing. The employment statistics database is utilised to procure an alternative …
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By combining two sets of survey data - provincial competitiveness index (PCI) from VNCI-VCCI and USAID and annual enterprise census from Vietnam General Statistics Office (GSO) for the period between 2005 and 2011, we estimate the effects of sub-national institutions measured by Provincial...
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This paper aims to explore the potential role of Innovation Intermediaries in the evolution of a traditional cluster toward a service-oriented perspective. In particular, we will highlight the generative function of business models, here as market devices, in stimulating the co- evolution of...
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In this paper, we examine the environmental scanning strategy of manufacturing companies in Southwestern Nigeria … against the background that manufacturing companies in Nigeria exist in a challenging environment characterised by high import … with a questionnaire from a sample of 84 manufacturing firms in Southwestern Nigeria. We found that generally, companies in …
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Why have so few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa been successful in export-oriented manufacturing? This paper uses firm …
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, of which several turn out significant. In addition to estimates for the total manufacturing sector, we also show results … for three different groups of manufacturing industries characterized by different factor endowments: natural resource …
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sample of Chinese manufacturing firms in 2004. Through rigorous exercises involving robust regressions, quantile regressions …
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This book organized by Alice Abreu, actual President of ISA-RC30 “Sociology of Work”, is a follow up of an international seminar on the same theme of the title, held in September 1997 also in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). In this book are published papers presented on Latin American case studies,...
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