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Outsourcing and Structural Change. An Application to Some OECD Countries

Montresor, Sandro; Vittucci Marzetti, Giuseppe - 2007

The paper aims at showing why and how outsourcing and structural change analysis could be bridged in order to obtain more accurate insights of economic dynamics and draw more reliable policy implications. Such a bridge is then set at work by applying a battery of outsourcing measurements to some...

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Productivity Dynamics and Structural Change in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector

Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

The paper investigates structural change among the four-digit (SIC) industries of the U.S. manufacturing sector during 1958-96 within a distribution dynamics framework. Focus is on the transition density of the Markov process that characterizes the value added shares of the industries. This...

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Structural Changes in Italian Industry: The Impact of Crisis. A Comment on the Book Edited by Laura Rondi and Francesco Silva

Nifo, Annamaria; Scalera, Domenico - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2011) 2

The recent volume Produttività e cambiamento nell’industria italiana (Productivity and Change in Italian Industry) edited by Laura Rondi and Francesco Silva supplies an interesting overview of the structural change in Italian industry in the last decade. The aim of this comment is to survey...

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Funktionaler Strukturwandel in der Industrie: Bedeutung produktionsnaher Dienste nimmt zu

Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 33, pp. 759-770

There are fewer and fewer people employed in the German manufacturing sector. Between 1999 and 2013, the number of people working in the industry fell from 7.7 million to 7.3 million. However, not all areas have been equally affected by the decline, rather, there has been a functional...

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Trade openness and structural change dynamics in West African countries

Chabi, Patrick; Saygılı, Refik Fatih - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 13 (2024), pp. 1-27

In this study, we investigate the contribution of trade openness to the structural change process in ECOWAS countries. Our findings suggest that the production structural change process is significantly and positively affected by the extent of trade openness. Higher openness levels are...

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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth

Wörz, Julia - In: Empirica 32 (2005) 1, pp. 117-144

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The process of creative construction: knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship and economic growth

Agarwal, Rajshree; Audretsch, David B.; Sarkar, MB - 2008

Questioning the underlying assumptions of the process of creative destruction, we conceptualize an alternative process of creative construction that may characterize the dynamics between entrants and incumbents. We discuss the underlying mechanism of knowledge spillover strategic...

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The Process of Creative Construction: Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Agarwal, Rajshree; Audretsch, David; Sarkar, MB - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics: Evidence from a half-century analysis

Asik, Gunes; Karakoc, Ulas; Marouani, Mohamed Ali; … - 2020

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly explained by intra-industry changes during the import...

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Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers and the Absorption Capabilities of Domestic Firms in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector (1992-2001)

Chudnovsky, Daniel; Lopez, Andres; Rossi, Gaston - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 2004

whether positive (or negative) productivity spillovers arose from the increasing presence of TNCs affiliates. We found that … positive nor negative horizontal and vertical (backward) spillovers from the growing presence of foreign firms in the local … economy. However, we also found that domestic firms with high absorption capabilities reaped positive spillovers from TNCs …

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