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Computer Technology, Human Labor, and Long-Run Economic Growth
Elliott, Stuart W. - 1998
capable of performing human work skills. The basic model, with a single sector and homogeneous labor, projects output growth … rates over the next few decades that are substantially above historical growth rates in industrialized countries, assuming … plausible increases in computer skill. The projected output growth is accompanied by structural changes reflecting the reduced …
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Labor demand and economic development policy
Clark, Gordon L. - 1984
Neoclassical theory presumes that the demand for labor is a function of its real wage. Many local development agencies have taken this proposition as an article of faith, designing policies that effectively lower the real cost of labor. Empirical evidence for the textiles and electronics...
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Locating Foreign Affiliates in Germany: The Case of Swedish MNEs
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - 2001
This paper uses a dataset on the foreign activities by Swedish manufacturing firms to examine the performance of German affiliates compared with affiliates in other locations. It is found that German affiliates, on average, have higher labour productivity, R&D expenditure per employee and...
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Adjustment is Much Slower than You Think
Caballero, Ricardo J.; Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. - 2003
In most instances, the dynamic response of monetary and other policies to shocks is infrequent and lumpy. The same holds for the microeconomic response of some of the most important economic variables, such as investment, labor demand, and prices. We show that the standard practice of estimating...
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Analisis Pasar Tenaga Kerja Di Sumatera Utara
Karo Karo, Berla - 2010
Berla Karo Karo, 2009, Analyze of Market Labor in North Sumatera, under the guidance Dr. Murni Daulay, M.Si. (Chief), Drs. Iskandar Syarief, M.A. (Members).The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of the variables of supply and demand for labor for the labor market in North Sumatra....
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The Labor Share
Schneider, Dorothee - 2011
The labor share is defined as the share of value added which is payed out to workers. It is therefore often also called the wage share. Generally it is assumed that value added is produced with capital and labor as input factors so that Y = F(K;L) where Y is value added or output, K the capital...
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The Impact of Outsourcing on the Japanese and South Korean Labor Markets: International Outsourcing of Intermediate Inputs and Assembly in East Asia
Ahn, Sanghoon; Fukao, Kyoji; Ito, Keiko - 2008
Applying a common empirical approach to comparable industry-level data on production, trade, and labor markets for Japan and South Korea, this paper aims to investigate the impacts of outsourcing on different sectors of the labor market focusing on differences in educational attainment. While...
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Human Capital in Newly Established Firms - Four Empirical Investigations
Müller, Kathrin Marie - 2011
major driver of economic growth. New firms speed up structural change, foster market development and product variety by … driver for productivity growth and net employment growth is a small group of high-potential start-ups, called gazelles, which … and firms’ employment growth.Several firm-specific, founder-specific and industry-specific factors have been identified to …
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Offshoring Jobs? Multinationnals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment
Harrison, Ann; McMillan, Margaret - 2007
Critics of globalization claim that U.S. manufacturing firms are being driven by the prospects of cheaper labor to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence, beyond anecdotes, is slim. Using firm-level data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), we estimate the impact on U.S....
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The Microeconomic Implications of Input Market Regulations: Cross-Country Evidence from Within the Firm
Lafontaine, Francine; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2007
We investigate the microeconomic effects of labor regulations that protect employment and are expected to increase rigidity in labor markets. We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset obtained from a multinational food chain operating about 2,840 retail outlets in 43 countries outside the United...
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