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Do employers provide insurance against low frequency shocks? Industry employment and industry wages
Devereux, Paul J. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2005
between changes in composition-constant industry wages and industry employment. This suggests that growing industries attract … repeated cross-sectional data. The results imply that supply curves facing industries are elastic but upward sloping. …
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Union concessions in the 1980s
Bell, Linda A. - In: Quarterly Review (1989) Sum, pp. 44-58
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The hiring of new labor by expanding industries
Fallick, Bruce Chelimsky - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1993
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Organizational flexibility and employment dynamics at young and old plants
Campbell, Jeffrey R.; Fisher, Jonas D.M. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1998
There are significant differences in the dynamics of employment over the business cycle between young and old manufacturing plants. Young plants are more sensitive to aggregate disturbances, and they respond to them along different margins. We interpret these differences as reflecting greater...
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Employment versus wage adjustment and the U.S. dollar
Campa, Jose Manuel; Goldberg, Linda S. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1998
activity in specific U.S. manufacturing industries. Across two-digit industry levels of aggregation, exchange rate movements do …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The … overall external orientation. Industries with low price-over-cost markups and those with a less skilled workforce exhibit …
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Has structural change contributed to a jobless recovery?
Groshen, Erica L.; Potter, Simon - In: Current Issues in Economics and Finance 9 (2003) Aug
some industries to others - may help explain the stalled growth in jobs. …
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Environmental quality perception and management in industries in Ondo state, Nigeria
Fatusin, Afolabi Francis - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 15 (2015) 4, pp. 349-361
the more the tendency to improve it examined the perception of entrepreneurs of industries and residents on the state of … environmental management among 200 industries in Ondo state and 172 residents living within 100 meter radius to the sampled … industries who were interviewed with different sets of questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using tables and charts. The …
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A study to determine to what extent companies in South Africa are prepared to use corporate social responsibility as a developmental tool to alleviate poverty
Scholtz, Louise - 2009
The negative impact of poverty on development and security in South Africa has been exacerbated by high food prices. However, high food prices have also had a positive effect in that it galvanised civil society into coalescing and finally playing an activist role. Looking at the development of...
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Business counterintelligence : sustainable practice or passing fad?
Shear, Christopher James - 2009
Traditional information protection mechanisms are no longer adequately placed to effectivelydeal with the adversarial threats that have arisen as a result of the rise in importance ofknowledge for today’s organisations. Business counterintelligence appears to be a protectiveentity, which in...
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Salem Target Industry Analysis
Barnes, Emma; Braseth, Mark; Gonzalez, Kim; Hayes, Bryan - 2010
target industries and recommend steps to betterattract the target industries. The Community Planning Workshop (CPW …)evaluated four industries in this analysis: food processing, metalmanufacturing, biosciences, and renewable energy. The … opportunities in thebioscience and renewable energy industries. …
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