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Manufacturing productivity, deindustrialization, and reindustrialization

Tregenna, Fiona - 2011

In considering pathways to industrialization in the twenty-first century, cognisance needs to be taken of the fact that many countries have actually been deindustrializing. This paper analyses deindustrialization experiences internationally, by decomposing changes in the level and share of...

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Survey Evidence on Wage Rigidity and Unemployment: Sweden in the 1990s

Agell, Jonas; Lundborg, Per - 1999

severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …

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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

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A dynamic heterogeneous labour demand model for German manufacturing

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000

This paper presents an application of the Generalised Error Correction Model (GECM) for heterogeneous factor demands based on the quadratic cost function. Using data for 26 West German manufacturing industries over the period 1976-1995, it turns out that less general specifications such as the...

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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox function

Koebel, Bertrand M.; Falk, Martin; Laisney, François - 2000

We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...

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Outsourcing and technological change

Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009

We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm's expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...

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Ein ifo Beschäftigungsindikator

Hott, Christian; Kunkel, André - In: ifo Schnelldienst 57 (2004) 06, pp. 53-57

Das ifo Institut bietet über seinen Konjunkturtest auch einen Beschäftigungsindikator, welcher für die Bereiche verarbeitendes Gewerbe, Bau, Handel und gewerbliche Wirtschaft jeweils eine sehr hohe Kreuzkorrelation mit der entsprechenden Beschäftigungsentwicklung aufweist. Der Indikator ist...

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Entwicklung von Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkt in Sachsen 2003/2004

Gerstenberger, Wolfgang - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 10 (2003) 4, pp. 25-31

Das internationale und nationale Umfeld für die sächsische Wirtschaft hellt sich voraussichtlich auf. Hiervon wird auch die sächsische Industrie profitieren, die ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit gerade in der zurückliegenden Konjunkturflaute wieder unter Beweis gestellt hat. Trotz Schwächen wegen...

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Who is claiming for fixed-term contracts?

Jaimovich, Dany; Pages-Serra, Carmen - 2009

The present study aims to contribute to the debate concerning the effects on economic performance and the structure of the labor market of regulations that combine high Employment Protection Legislations (EPL) with consent for the use of fixed-term contracts (FTC). Using a Rajan and Zingales...

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FDI and Job Creation in China

Karlsson, Sune; Lundin, Nannan; Sjöholm, Fredrik; He, Ping - 2007

This paper examines the effect of FDI on job creation in the Chinese manufacturing sector. As one of the world's largest recipients of FDI, China has arguably benefited from foreign multinational enterprises in various respects. However, one of the main challenges for China, and other developing...

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