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. However recent research revealed that they do not necessarily lead to higher growth and employment rates. Recent studies … employment rates. Enterprises in Africa and Latin America caught up in matters of technology; however, this process resulted in a … substitution of employment by technology. The same is true for structural change; only the "right" kind of structural change caused …
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. However recent research revealed that they do not necessarily lead to higher growth and employment rates. Recent studies … employment rates. Enterprises in Africa and Latin America caught up in matters of technology; however, this process resulted in a … substitution of employment by technology. The same is true for structural change; only the "right" kind of structural change caused …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128169
We decompose aggregate industry labor productivity growth into seven distinct components: input deepening, technical change, technical efficiency, scale effect, between-firm reallocation, effects from exits and entry. The first four components measure the productivity growth within a firm. The...
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Trade and technological change continually alter the workplace and labor-market outcomes, with consequences for economy-wide welfare and the distribution of real incomes. This report assesses the state of economic research into those areas, with a particular focus on empirical methodologies and...
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The aim of this paper is to learn about some patterns of sectoral and industrial structural change of the Chinese economy over the 1995-2010 period. To such a purpose, we set up a quantitative methodology via input-output modelling, which allows us to decompose gross output into some key demand...
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This paper is a continuation of our study of structural change in China and deals with the changes of domestic industrial/sectoral backward and forward linkages (i.e. the pull and push of the economy) as well as the changes in their domestic and imported components (i.e. via import...
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net employment growth in the European Union since the second half of the 1990s. Apart from this direct growth contribution … other industries. The knowledge role of business services is reflected in its employment characteristics. The business … ambitious Lisbon goals with respect to employment, productivity and innovation. …
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This paper examines the role of removing obstacles to competition in product markets in raising growth and productivity. Using firm-level data from Italy during 2003-13 and OECD measures of product market regulation, we estimate the effect of deregulation in network sectors on value added and...
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sector now accounting for the largest share of employment indeveloped countries. In his seminal model of the so-called cost …
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We test whether and how the adoption of the euro, narrowly defined as the end of competitive devaluations, has affected member states� productive structures, distinguishing between within and across sector reallocation. We find evidence that the euro has been accompanied by a reallocation...
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