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between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …
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. One of the main concerns is the negative effects of growing import competition on employment. This paper focuses on … manufacturing sector employment because of its high trade exposure and potential for wider spillovers. It finds that while trade … appears to have only a minor association with manufacturing employment shares at the national level compared with technology …
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employment rate, but also high wage inequality, informality and labour turnover, which limits incentives for firms to invest in …The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour … reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall …
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activity and better start-up support. Relatively high minimum wage is potentially reducing employment opportunities of low …-skilled workers. Limiting the minimum wage growth, and lowering the high tax wedge on labour income could boost employment. Efficiency …
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The Spanish economy experienced significantly weaker labour productivity growth than other OECD economies and failed to catch up with the most advanced economies in the period 1996-2007. In recent years labour productivity growth has accelerated, but this recovery is likely to be due to cyclical...
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This paper addresses the relationship between productivity in the retail sector and market size. In the paper, the systematic variations between central and non-central retail markets, as well as the systematic variations across different types of retailing activities are investigated. The...
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There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … wage differences between natives and migrants. This wage differences lead to wage cost advantages for firms. In the long … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …
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The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...
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