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Ein nutzungskostenbasierter Ansatz zur Messung des Faktors Kapital in aggregierten Produktionsfunktionen / A User Cost Approach to Capital Measurement in Aggregate Production Funct...
Knetsch, Thomas A. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 5-6, pp. 638-660
Summary A method is proposed to measure capital services in production. This means that productive assets are weighted according to their user costs. The user costs of the individual asset classes are estimated based on data from the national accounts and other sources. The results show that, in...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Financial Development, and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Arab Countries
Omran, Mohammed; Bolbol, Ali - In: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance 1 (2003) 3, pp. 37-55
The emerging literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) now stipulates that FDI’s positive impact on growth depends on absorptive capacities. Prime among these capacities is financial development. The paper provides support to this thesis in the context of the Arab countries whose financial...
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Chinese regional productivity and urbanization: a county-level study in 2007-2010
Jin, Fei; Zhang, Qi - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 8 (2015) 2, pp. 82-105
Purpose – This study aims to analyze the total factor productivity (TFP) performance of Chinese counties and cities … over the period from 2007 to 2010. Chinese regional and urban–rural TFP performance are investigated by using county …-level data, and the impact of the urbanization policy on TFP is discussed. Design/methodology/approach – The data envelopment …
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Industrielle Einfacharbeit – Stabilität und Perspektiven / Low-skilled industrial work – stability and perspektives
Ittermann, Peter; Abel, Jörg; Dostal, Werner - In: Arbeit 20 (2011) 3, pp. 157-172
semiskilled workers are employed in the tasks of manufacturing and packaging. Though the job requirements are at a low level, the …
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Mit Flexibilität durch die Krise – Fallstudien in produzierenden Unternehmen / With flexibility through the crisis – case studies in producing companies
Mallok, Jörn - In: Arbeit 20 (2011) 4, pp. 261-276
sized companies of the manufacturing sector and how they reacted on the economic slowdown between 2008 and 2009. It leads to …
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Globalization and Wage Inequality in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector: A Time Series Analysis
Grenier, Gilles; Tavakoli, Akbar - In: Global Economy Journal 6 (2006) 2
in the manufacturing sector between 1970 and 2001. The independent variables include R&D, union density, immigration …
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Energy Use Patterns in German Industry: Evidence from Plant-level Data
Petrick, Sebastian; Rehdanz, Katrin; Wagner, Ulrich J. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 231 (2011) 3, pp. 379-414
Summary This paper analyzes energy use and CO 2 emissions of more than 78 000 German industrial plants between 1995 and 2006. It is the first study to exploit exceptionally rich energy data that were recently matched to official micro datasets. We document that both energy use and intensity are...
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The effects of outward FDI on home‐country productivity
Hsu, Wen‐Chung; Gao, Xingbo; Zhang, Jianhua; Mei Lin, Hsin - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 4 (2011) 2, pp. 99-116
‐country productivity. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data set for 15 Taiwanese manufacturing industries over the period between 1991 …
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The impacts of China’s FDI on employment in Thailand’s industrial sector
Keorite, Mathavee; Moubarak, Mohamed - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 9 (2016) 1, pp. 60-84
Purpose – This study aims to analyze the effect of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on new job creation. This study pays attention to factors interrelated to China’s FDI by using the case of Thailand. Design/methodology/approach – Using time series data from 2001 to 2014, this paper...
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Managing Product Line Mismatch with Distributors
Decker, David R. - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 7 (1992) 3, pp. 19-28
Considers the conflict between manufacturers products′ selling requirements and the dominant sales strategy of the distributor, the latter resulting in pricing and stock‐holding disagreements which the manufacturer must control and manage. Examines the reasons for mismatches, e.g. the...
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