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Sources of employment change in the Tenth District

Kraybill, David S. - In: Regional Economic Digest (1996) Q III, pp. 9-15

Creating jobs is often the primary goal of economic development policy. To help target their job creation efforts, policymakers generally examine net changes in the official employment figures. But relying solely on net changes can often hide important gross changes that influence the dynamics...

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Microeconomic Adjustment During Structural Reforms: The Nicaraguan Manufacturing Sector 1991-1995

Isgut, Alberto; Tello, Mario; Veiderpass, Ann - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 1998

competition, are likely to create incentives to improve the way firms operate i.e. firm efficiency. In this study we measure and …

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Inter-industry productivity trends: unbalanced growth or unmeasured growth?

Schmidt, Ronald H. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 1993

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Evolving Trade Patterns in the CIS: The Role of Manufacturing

Shelburne, Robert; Pidufala, Oksana - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2006

currently under-rely on the other CIS for their imports of manufactures but over-rely on them as a destination for their exports …. CIS exports of manufactures are concentrated primarily of products in SITC 6 produced with medium or low-skilled labor and … countries is remarkably low. Generally each of the CIS exports a different set of goods so there is limited competition between …

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The performance of the U.S. capital goods industry: implications for trade adjustment

Orr, James - In: Quarterly Review (1988) Win, pp. 69-82

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Assessing the exchange rate's impact on U.S. manufacturing profits

Hung, Juann - In: Quarterly Review (1992) Win, pp. 44-63

Few studies have investigated how the large and persistent swings of the dollar over the past two decades have affected the profits of U.S. manufacturing firms. Using an econometric model of manufacturing profits, this article evaluates the overall impact of exchange rate changes on aggregate...

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