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Cost competitiveness of Chinese and Finnish paper and paper product manufacturing
Ahveninen, Harri; Suni, Paavo; Zhao, Yanyun; Wu, Yilin - 2008
This study focuses on the labour cost competitiveness of the paper and pulp industry in China and Finland in particular, using the corresponding German, the US and Estonian industries as a point of comparison in the early 2000s. This study deepens the analysis of the earlier study of the cost...
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Cost competitiveness of Chinese and Finnish chemical industries
Li, Enjing; Suni, Paavo; Zhao, Yanyun - 2008
This study focuses on the labour cost competitiveness of the chemical industries in China and Finland in particular, using the corresponding German, the US and Estonian industries as a point of comparison in the early 2000s. This study deepens the analysis of the earlier study of the cost...
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Labor costs and productivity trends in selected Brazilian manufacturing industries: An international comparison
Picht, Hartmut - 1987
The analysis focuses on the iron and steel industry, the motor vehicle and the non-electrical machinery industry as well as the manufacture of wearing apparel and footwear. The iron and steel industry and the motor vehicle industry were chosen, because they are characterized by low to middle...
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The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience
L'Horty, Yannick; Rault, Christophe - 2003
To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....
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Are firm innovativeness and firm age relevant for the supply of vocational tranining? A study based on Swiss micro data
Arvanitis, Spyros - 2008
In this study we investigated the determinants (a) of the propensity of Swiss firms to train apprentices and (b) of the intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition conditions on the product market are possible...
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Sind die Ost-Löhne zu hoch?
Tomann, Horst - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 76 (1996) 12, pp. 628-630
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Deutsche Arbeitskosten und Lohnstückkosten im europäischen Vergleich - Auswirkungen der Krise: Auswertung der aktuellen Eurostat-Statistik bis 2010
Niechoj, Torsten; Stein, Ulrike; Stephan, Sabine; … - 2011
Deutschland liegt bei den Arbeitskosten für die Privatwirtschaft mit 29 Euro pro Arbeitsstunde weiterhin im Mittelfeld … der EU-Staaten - an siebter Stelle. Auch 2009 sind die Arbeitskosten in der Bundesrepublik mit einem Plus von 2 … deutschen Arbeitskosten in der Frühphase der Wirtschaftskrise, verursacht durch Arbeitszeitverkürzung und Kurzarbeit, hat sich …
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Deutsche Arbeitskosten: Eine Quelle der Instabilität im Euroraum. Auswertung der Eurostat-Statistik für 2010
Niechoj, Torsten; Stein, Ulrike; Stephan, Sabine; … - 2011
Die Arbeitskosten in der privaten Wirtschaft sind in Deutschland 2010 lediglich um 0,6 Prozent gestiegen. Im … Durchschnitt der EU-Länder nahmen die Arbeitskosten hingegen um moderate 1,7 Prozent und im Mittel des Euroraums um 1,6 Prozent zu … Arbeitskosten in der Bundesrepublik deutlich langsamer zunehmen als in den anderen Ländern der Europäischen Union. So wuchsen die …
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German labour costs: A source of instability in the euro area. Analysis of Eurostat Data for 2010
Niechoj, Torsten; Stein, Ulrike; Stephan, Sabine; … - 2011
Die Arbeitskosten in der privaten Wirtschaft sind in Deutschland 2010 lediglich um 0,6 Prozent gestiegen. Im … Durchschnitt der EU-Länder nahmen die Arbeitskosten hingegen um moderate 1,7 Prozent und im Mittel des Euroraums um 1,6 Prozent zu … Arbeitskosten in der Bundesrepublik deutlich langsamer zunehmen als in den anderen Ländern der Europäischen Union. So wuchsen die …
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Is the Rising Services Sector in the People's Republic of China leading to Cost Disease?
Qin, Duo - 2004
The focal issue of this investigation is whether the rising services sector would contract cost disease and stagnate economic growth in People's Republic of China (PRC), as diagnosed generally of tertiarization in Baumol's unbalanced growth model. Using provincial panel data for 1985-2001, the...
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