This paper examines the effect of a new technology on a labour-intensive service. Comparing primal and dual TFP-growth with final-year social savings, we find that, between 1900 and 1938, motion pictures increased entertainment output (measured in spectator-hours) by at least nine percent...

This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire. Using shift-share analysis and a set of basic measures to account for the contribution of physical and human capital growth, it seeks to address three questions:...

This research is the outcome of fieldwork undertaken between November 2002 and 2003 inAl Gharaza village part of Khartoum State - the Sudan capital.The study focuses on identifying how spaces and times are interrelated and engendered. Theforces that impact the creation of boundaries or those...

Das Internet und die multimedialen Möglichkeiten des World Wide Web habendazu geführt, dass eine neue Industrie um die innovativen Technologien und Geschäftsmodelleentstanden ist. Mittlerweile wird - in Abgrenzung zu den Geschäftsmodellender Old Economy - von der New Economy gesprochen.So...

A recent phenomenon of globalisation has come to be known as "Knowledge Process Outsourcing" (KPO), whereby knowledge-intensive R&D work is outsourced to an outside firm or an offshore-subsidiary. Primary motives of KPO are thought to be availability of highly-skilled labour, locations of...

Am 30. August stellte Staatssekretär Wolf-Michael Catenhusen vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung(BMBF) die Buchfassung des ersten Berichts zur sozioökonomischen Entwicklung in Deutschland vor.1 Die nachstehendeKurzfassung des Einleitungskapitels gibt wichtige Ergebnisse des...

With ongoing social change people are faced with a variety of demands in several life domains such as work, family, and public life. The way they appraise and cope with these demands as well as the effectiveness of coping strategies depend on the resources they possess (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984)....

This paper1 describes Participatory Wealth Ranking’s (PWR) accuracy in predicting the poverty status of groups identified by socio-economic indicators. On the basis of a census in 8 villages located in three of the six divisions of Bangladesh, 1660 households were scored using the...

This paper draws on empirical research carried out in two rural communities in North-West Pakistan to establish a baseline picture of the patterns of non-farm activities andidentify the extent of change in non-agricultural employment as well as the determinantsof participation in informal...