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, by decomposing changes in the level and share of manufacturing employment. The results indicate that in most countries … the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing … many countries have actually been deindustrializing. This paper analyses deindustrialization experiences internationally …
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within a Mincerian framework through a difference-in-difference estimator or with industry-level measures of trade openness …. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we …
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innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation … output. The econometric analysis confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to …
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activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … effect is independent of the novelty degree. Moreover, different employment effects between manufacturing and service firms … service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific …
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To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties. …
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analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 … employment. However, the effects are rather negligible and only amount to a 1.5 to 2 percent net loss of the change in employment …, with larger effects from services. In particular, the average offshoring industry displays 1.4 to 1.98 additional …
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workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in …
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of labour increased dramatically in Tunisia as women entered the labour market. This allowed importable employment to be …This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that …
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This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to … unemployment as they cue for high-skill jobs. Moreover, the public sector remains the main provider of employment opportunities for …
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This paper discusses the de-industrialization hypothesis in Brazil based on indicators usually not found in the … literature. The evaluation was based on the structure and dynamics of the manufacturing sector vis-à-vis the rest of the economy … Brazil is suffering a de-industrialization process in the negative sense. …
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