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The dragon down under : The regional labour market impact of growth in Chinese imports to Australia
Coelli, Michael Bernard; Maccarrone, James; Borland, Jeff - 2021
Imports of manufactured goods from China to Australia grew more than eleven-fold in real US dollar terms between 1991 and 2006. This study uses differences in industry structure between regions to identify the impact of that growth on labour market outcomes in Australia. Overall, the growth in...
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The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment : Lessons from the French Experience
L'Horty, Yannick; Rault, Christophe - 2021
To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....
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Trade Liberalization and Employment Intensity of Sectoral Output Growth : Lessons from Tunisia
Goaied, Mohamed; Sassi, Seifallah - 2016
The purpose of this article is to assess the relationship between trade liberalisation in Tunisia and the employment intensity of sectoral output growth, in order to examine the claim that free trade creates jobs by stimulating growth. Using panel data for 15 Tunisian sectors over the period...
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Sectoral Digital Intensity and GDP Growth After a Large Employment Shock : A Simple Extrapolation Exercise
Gallipoli, Giovanni; Makridis, Christos - 2020
We examine the dynamics of GDP following an economy-wide pandemic shock that curtails physical mobility and the ability … document that: (i) employment responses after the onset of the shock are milder in digitally-intensive sectors; (ii … intensity. In our baseline scenario, aggregate output returns to pre-crisis levels eight quarters after the initial shock onset …
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Ausländerbeschäftigung in Liechtenstein : Fluch oder Segen?
Kellermann, Kersten; Schlag, Carsten-Henning - 2012
Gut zwei Drittel aller Arbeitsstellen in Liechtenstein sind mit Ausländern besetzt. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht mögliche Auswirkungen der hohen Ausländerbeschäftigung auf Produktion, Wachstum und Verteilung in Liechtenstein. Unterschieden werden die drei Beschäftigungssegmente...
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Understanding the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Nabena, David; … - 2015
This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country's paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition approach, complemented with econometric estimation of...
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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
van Praag, Mirjam - 2015
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...
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The Recovery from the Great Recession : A Long, Evolving Expansion
Shambaugh, Jay; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in …
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The recovery from the Great Recession: a long, evolving expansion
Shambaugh, Jay C.; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405441
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017
We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
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