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Wages and Employment in the Liberalised Regime: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Sector
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Expansion of earning opportunities and increment in earning levels are dual objectives of policymakers in developing countries. The structural adjustment programme in India tried to ensure both through higher growth targets, and manufacturing sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260234
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An Empirical Model of Factor Adjustment Dynamics
Contreras, Juan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper investigates how firms dynamically adjust their use of capital, labor, energy, and materials when there are both smooth and lumpy adjustment possibilities and interrelation among adjustments. The Colombian Annual Census of Manufacturing provides evidence of these kinds of adjustment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787020
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Localización de la industria manufacturera en Colombia 1990-1999
Toro González, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This article analyzes factors which, in light of the classical industrial location theory, account for the location of manufacturing industries in Colombia. The document shows how it is that agglomeration economies represent the paramount determiner which explains the localition choices of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787230
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R&D and productivity in high-tech manufacturing: a comparison between Italy and Spain
Sterlacchini, Alessandro; Venturini, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using data for twelve manufacturing industries over the period 1980-2006, we perform for Italy and Spain a dynamic panel estimation of the long-run elasticity of TFP with respect to R&D capital. The results show that in Spain high-tech industries have experienced a similar or slightly higher R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919737
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Knowledge sourcing and firm performance in an industrializing economy: The case of Taiwan (1992-2003)
Chang, Chia-Lin; Robin, Stéphane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We examine the impact of R&D and technology imports on firm performance in Taiwan’s manufacturing industry in a policy context of industrial upgrading. To do so, we estimate a Translog production function on two panels (covering 1992-1995 and 1997-2003), using stochastic frontier models. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784946
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Die Transformation des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes in Berlin/Brandenburg unter Berücksichtigung der Exporte : eine empirische Analyse mit amtlichen Mikrodaten
Mangelsdorf, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
on productivity growth, and additionally export behavior has to be persistent over time. Both conditions are empirically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112843
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Economic reform and Productivity Growth in Indian Paper and Paper Products Industry: A Nonparametric Analysis
Chirayil, Anish - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper applied the Malmquist Productivity Index in order to estimate total factor productivity growth and its … reforms on the productivity growth of paper and paper products industry was negative. It was evident in the study that the … factor for productivity change in Indian paper and paper products industry. Among similar trends were observed at the sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005019446
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Technological Upgradation in the Informal Manufacturing Sector: Possibilities and Problems
Mukherjee, Dipa; Mathur, Ashok - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
. However, low labour productivity is one of the serious problems related to this sector. It is argued that technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260296
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The adoption of the European System of Accounts 1995 framework in the national accounts of Malta
Grech, Aaron George; Pace, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The release of ESA 1995 GDP data for Malta has ushered in great changes in the way in which the Maltese economy can be analysed. Indicators computed from the new national accounts reveal that the Maltese economy has achieved a relatively high degree of convergence with the European average,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294925
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The Relocation of Russian Industry 1987-1993
Huber, Peter; Nagaev, sergei; Wörgötter, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
there significant changes in the relative productivity's of industries in regions? Is there a connection between … productivity changes and changes in localization? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596365