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for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised …
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really is the case. This paper investigates whether employment growth in 'green' establishments with 'green' products and … analyzed. We use linked employment and regional data for Germany. The descriptive results show that the environmental sector is … characterized by disproportionately high employment growth. The application of both a generalized linear mixed model and an …
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higher electricity prices. We examine the effect from changing electricity prices on manufacturing employment. Analyzing firm … employment more than less constrained firms. This implies a potentially mitigating role for monetary policy. …
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higher electricity prices. We examine the effect from changing electricity prices on manufacturing employment. Analyzing firm … employment more than less constrained firms. This implies a potentially mitigating role for monetary policy. …
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Is the poor aggregate employment growth of the manufacturing sector in Sub-Saharan African countries the outcome of … from the Kenyan manufacturing sector, we examine this question using ordinary least squares method and feasible generalized … the manufacturing sector was not adequate to offset the rapid destruction of jobs. Second, we find that the presence of …
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manufacturing employment of between 89,900 and 209,800 workers – accounting for 8.5 to 19.8 per cent of manufacturing employment in …We examine how the rapid growth in imports of manufactured goods from China affected industry-level employment in … 1991. Such an effect seems best described as sizable, but not one that by itself spelled the end of manufacturing industry …
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employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 - 2005. We find strong evidence … on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …
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the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back …
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To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties …
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This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian … manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971-96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment …, output, quasi-fixed capital stock and technology. The empirical results show that in the long run, employment demand responds …
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