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Republic of Korea; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This note is on Korea’s transition to a knowledge-based economy, the prospects and challenges ahead, and the development of its financial sector. Assessment of recent government initiatives to develop capital markets has been presented. The note discusses restrictions on Chaebol ownership...
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Outsourcing, Offshoring - Service Offshoring: Bane or Boon and What to Do?
Brainard, Lael; Litan, Robert - In: CESifo Forum 5 (2004) 2, pp. 3-7
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The Business Services Sector
Manalo, Josef; Orsmond, David - In: RBA Bulletin (2013) March, pp. 1-10
The business services sector has become increasingly important in the Australian economy. The strong growth in its output and employment has been largely driven by demand for the professional, scientific and technical inputs that firms in this sector provide to other businesses. This, in turn,...
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Services are Different: Job Characteristics, Working Conditions and Pay Levels in OECD Countries
Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 2 (2001) 4, pp. 55-57
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Pro: Opening the Services Market – Standing Still is not an Option / Contra: Greens ask for Alternative Approach to the Liberalization of Services in the EU
McCreevy, Charlie; Rühle, Heidi - In: CESifo Forum 6 (2005) 1, pp. 29-31
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Decentralising the public sector: The Impact of Decentralisation on Service Delivery, Corruption, Fiscal Management and Growth in Developing and Emerging Market Economies: A Synthe...
Shah, Anwar; Thompson, Theresa; Zou, Heng-fu - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 1, pp. 10-14
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Globalization Drives Strategic Product Switching
Badia, Marialuz Moreno; Slootmaekers, Veerle; Beveren, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Using firm-level data for Estonia for the years 1997-2005, we analyze the impact of international competition on firm dynamics, considering both firm closedown and product switching. We contribute to the literature in two important ways: (1) this is the first paper to study the determinants of...
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Services firms in the developing world: An empirical snapshot
Shepherd, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper paints the first empirical portrait of services firms in the developing world. Compared with manufacturers, service providers are smaller, but growing faster. They are more productive, pay higher wages, and invest more heavily than manufacturers, but are less likely to export or to...
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The Impact of R&D Activities on Exports of German Business Services Enterprises: First evidence from a continuous treatment approach
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the...
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Organizational Knowledge and Innovation in Business Services
Leiponen, Aija - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2003
knowledge on innovation performance. We suggest that firms differ with respect to their knowledge creation approaches and that … these approaches have implications for firm performance in terms of innovation success. A conceptual framework of knowledge … that innovation in business services is associated with both tacit and explicit collective knowledge, and with explicit …
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