Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...

Logistikansiedlungen können einen großen Flächenbedarf und erhebliche Verkehrswirkungen aufweisen und sollten daher in den Fokus der Regionalplanung rücken. Die Arbeit beinhaltet empirische Planungsgrundlagen in Form von Nutzungs- und Verkehrskennwerten für Logistikbetriebe und...

Individual wages differ substantially across regions and cities within Germany. Based on this observation, the thesis aims to shed light on the causes and the underlying microeconomic mechanisms responsible for regional differences in labor productivity. It takes the notion of local human...

The paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between environmental efficiency and labour productivity using industry level data. We first provide a critical and extensive discussion around the interconnected issues of environmental efficiency and performance, firm performances...

This paper examines the issue of decoupling economic growth and pollution through growth driven by productivity improvements; and the extent to which pollution effects spill over national borders. Focus is widened from conventional production measures of pollution to a consumption accounting...

Using firm-level data from Bulgaria and Romania, this paper addresses a lacuna in the transition literature, namely, the link of firm-level employment turnover with firm-level growth in labour productivity. The results suggest that while net job creation at the firm level was affected by...

Magistro darbe yra formuluojama problema dėl skirtingos Lietuvos ir kitų ES šalių darbo užmokesčio ir darbo našumo kaitos. Pateikiama išanalizuota ir susisteminta įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio autorių literatūra apie darbo užmokesčio funkcijas, struktūrą, darbo užmokesčio dydį...

The principal objective of this paper is to compare the real output and labour productivity of Chinese and Indian manufacturing from 1980 to 2002. Using an industry-of-origin approach, purchasing power parities (PPPs) for the benchmark year 1985 are derived from the Chinese and Indian industrial...