"Erfreuliche Beschäftigungsgewinne auf der einen, anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit auf der anderen Seite prägen das gegenwärtige Bild des regionalen Arbeitsmarktes. Trotz beobachteter und weiterhin zu erwartender leichter Entspannungstendenzen bleibt das hohe und von Region zu Region...

"Erfreuliche Beschäftigungsgewinne auf der einen, anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit auf der anderen Seite prägen das gegenwärtige Bild des regionalen Arbeitsmarktes. Trotz beobachteter und weiterhin zu erwartender leichter Entspannungstendenzen bleibt das hohe und von Region zu Region...

Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...

This study investigated the effect of structural unemployment on the productivity of Nigerian Manufacturing Sector. Exploratory research design was used. Secondary data were sourced from Central Bank of Nigeria, Statistical Bulletin (Various Issues), National Bureau of Statistics and Annual...

Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay assesses their analysis of how unions in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity...

When workers adopt technology at the point where the costs equal the increased productivity, output per worker increases immediately, while the productivity benefits increase only gradually if the costs continue to fall. As a result, workers in computer-adopting labor market groups experience an...

By exploiting establishment-level data, this paper sheds new light on the sources of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. We investigate the following two related hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in...

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...