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We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand “jobless” growthin Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, fortyyears of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of largeexporting plants with...
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In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkablywell in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simplerank-size rule known as Zipf´s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is thechurning of industries...
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This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...
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Die traditionelle Beurteilung der Arbeitskräftepolitik der Bauunternehmenin Deutschland als facharbeiterzentriert kann seit dem Beginn der 1990erJahre nicht mehr generell aufrechterhalten werden. Insbesondere zweiSachverhalte belegen, dass die deutsche Bauwirtschaft inzwischen beachtlicheTeile...
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The paper aims to account for the empirical stylised facts re-lated to changes in sectoral structures that have led to the growthof services in most advanced countries over recent decades. A growthmodel with evolutionary micro{founded structural change is devel-oped, which formalises the role of...
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Schumpeterian development is characterised by the simultaneous interplay of growthand qualitative transformations of the economic system. At the sectoral level, suchqualitative transformations become manifest as variations in the sectoral composition ofproduction. Following the implementation of...
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Industrie heute vor neuen Herausforderungen,deren Auswirkungen sich im Strukturwandel manifestieren. Zwar ist in ganz … Strukturwandel aber viel schneller und stärkervollzogen. Vielfach wird deswegen von Deindustrialisierung gesprochen.... …
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We analyze the rise and decline of the steel and mining industries in the regionsof Saarland, Lorraine und Luxemburg over a long period, from the mid-19th century to 2003.Our main focus in on the period of structural decline in these industries after the secondworld war. Dierences in the...
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Certain properties of Engel curves have been linked to the occurrence of structural changein the economy (Pasinetti 1981, Metcalfe et al. 2006, Saviotti 2001). From an empiricalperspective, however, very little has been done to examine (i) whether indeed satiation isa general property of Engel...
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In Medien und Öffentlichkeit ist die Meinung, dass die infolge von Globalisierung und Strukturwandel … Lohneffekte von Arbeitskräften untersucht,die ihre Stelle infolge von Globalisierung und Strukturwandel verloren haben. Die …
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