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Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act: empirical examination of government-sponsored financial incentives

Smith, Alan D. - In: International Journal of Electronic Finance 4 (2010) 2, pp. 120-155

The Cash for Clunkers program is the popular nickname for the Car Allowance Rebates Program created in the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 (CARS). A review of the applied literature on CRM, economic policy, and the newly enacted government program providing financial...

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Editor’s Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 8 (2004) Spring, pp. 1-2

productivity trends; the measurement of productivity growth in services industries; and a review article of a recent book, Why …

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Introduction to Services and Employment: Explaining the U.S.-European Gap

Gregory, Mary; Salverda, Wiemer; Schettkat, Ronald - Princeton University Press

been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in Services and Employment, an international group of … actually a services gap. But, Services and Employment asks, why does the United States consume services at such a … greater rate than Europe? Services and Employment is the first systematic and comprehensive international comparison on …

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Productivity Growth in Service Industries: A Canadian Success Story

Rao, Someshwar; Sharpe, Andrew; Tang, Jianmin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2004

The Canadian service sector has performed well in recent years in terms of labour and multifactor productivity growth, both in absolute terms and relative to the United States, offsetting much of the poorer performance of the manufacturing sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has...

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The Contribution of ICT-Producing and ICT-Using Industries to Productivity Growth: A Comparison of Canada, Europe and the United States

Ark, Bart van; Inklaar, Robert; McGuckin, Robert H. - In: International Productivity Monitor 6 (2003) Spring, pp. 56-63

Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the 1990s. In this article, Bart van Ark, Robert Inklaar from the University of Groningen and Robert H. McGuckin of the U.S. Conference Board compare Canada, the United States and...

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The Challenges of the European Automotive Industry at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Summary of the main findings of the CoCKEAS project

LUNG, Yannick - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2004

(financialisation and services), its new geography, and, finally, its distinctivness compared with is competitors (USA and Japan). …

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Fiscal Policy and Lending Relationships

Melina, Giovanni; Villa, Stefania - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper studies how fiscal policy affects loan market conditions in the US. First, it conducts a Structural Vector-Autoregression analysis showing that the bank spread responds negatively to an expansionary government spending shock, while lending increases. Second, it illustrates that these...

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Women workers, unions and industrial sectors in North America.

SC, Eaton - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1992

Covers the period from 1960 to 1990. Briefly reviews trends in the agriculture, construction, health care, public, education and clerical sectors.

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Women and social security in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub- saharan Africa.

N, Folbre - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1993

One of a series of reports examining issues related to equality for women in employment. Provides an overview of the treatment of women in social security programmes in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Sub- Saharan Africa. Calls attention to four separate aspects of gender bias. Also traces the...

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Older workers: conditions of work and transition to retirement; country report: United States.

KL, Yocum - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1993

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