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Europas Papierindustrie bei sich ändernden Rahmenbedingungen
Grefermann, Klaus - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 45 (1992) 28, pp. 08-13
Gemessen an der Zahl der Beschäftigten gehört die Papierindustrie zu den kleineren Industriebranchen. Sie ist jedoch sehr kapitalintensiv, was zur Beschleunigung des Konzentrationsprozesses beigetragen hat. Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung der Umweltverträglichkeit haben zu verstärkten...
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Indian steel industry: growth, efficiency, problems and prospects.
Ghosh, A - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1988
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Study of efficiency trends and productivity changes in the US TL carriers: 2000-2009
Pai, Dinesh R. - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 3 (2011) 4, pp. 234-267
In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is … index is used to study the productivity changes in the US TL carriers. The window analysis results reveal that the average …, allows productivity changes to be decomposed into two categories: technical efficiency changes, and technological changes …
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Particulars of US Information Technology and productivity: lessons for Europe
Adekola, Abel; Sergi, Bruno S. - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 1 (2008) 2, pp. 128-143
There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA …. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth …
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Particulars of US Information Technology and productivity: lessons for Europe
Adekola, Abel; Sergi, Bruno S. - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 1 (2008) 2, pp. 128-143
There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA …. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth …
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Modelling Possible Impacts of GM Crops on Australian Trade
Stone, Susan; Matysek, Anna; Dolling, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003
been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and …
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Financial and alternative choices in personal transportation habits
Smith, Alan D. - In: International Journal of Electronic Finance 4 (2010) 3, pp. 236-268
An empirical study was conducted of employed professionals, representative of the marketing and financial services industry located within the metropolitan section of Pittsburgh, PA, resulting in 191 useable questionnaires. The thrust was to investigate the degree of seriousness on the part of...
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Trends in "structural" productivity levels in the major industrialized countries.
Bourlès, R.; Cette, G. - Banque de France - 2006
productivity and other industrialized countries' catch-up with US productivity levels over recent decades. …
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A comparison of structural productivity levels in the major industrialised countries
Bourlès, Renaud; Cette, Gilbert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Hourly labour productivity levels in a number of European countries are thought to be very close to, or possibly even …’ levels of hourly productivity for the effect of the differentials (with the United States) in the hours worked and …/or employment rates of several categories of the population of working age in order to calculate ‘structural’ hourly productivity …
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The decreasing returns on working time: an empirical analysis on panel country data
Cette, Gilbert; Chang, Samuel; Konte, Maty - In: Applied Economics Letters 18 (2011) 17, pp. 1677-1682
) countries to test whether the elasticity of hourly productivity to working time is negative and decreasing with working time … time. We find that the elasticity of productivity per hour to working time is negative and decreases with working time, but …
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