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Betriebsinterne Arbeitsmärkte und die qualifikatorische Lohn- und Beschäftigungsstruktur / Internal Labor Markets and the Structure of Wages and Employment with Respect to Qualifications : Zum Stand der Diskussion / A Survey of the Recent Literature

Gerlach, Knut; Stephan, Gesine - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 219 (1999) 1-2, pp. 32-48

Zusammenfassung Die Existenz und die Entwicklung betriebsinterner Arbeitsmärkte ist von nicht zu unterschätzender Bedeutung für die Lohn- und Qualifikationsstruktur in einer Wirtschaft. Der vorliegende Beitrag betrachtet drei Aspekte betriebsinterner Arbeitsmärkte: Erstens ist - einhergehend...

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Technical Change in the Private Consumption Converter

Alcala, Rolando; Antille, Gabrielle; Fontela, Emilio - In: Economic Systems Research 11 (1999) 4, pp. 389-400

The analysis of technological change is centered on the study of the evolution of technical coefficients in the input-output table. Complementary to this analysis, the household consumption expenditure matrix, relating consumption by commodities to consumption by purpose or by function, also...

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Production Risk and Productivity Growth: Some Findings for Norwegian Salmon Aquaculture

Tveteros, Ragnar - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 12 (1999) 2, pp. 161-179

properties of inputs and productivity growth. Under production risk one should estimate technical change separately for the … increase output risk, while labor has a risk-decreasing effect on output. In the analysis of technical change by the first …

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The Trade and Labour Approaches to Wage Inequality

Haskel, Jonathan E. - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 1999

the different roles ascribed to sector and factor bias, labour supply and the theory of technical change in trade models …

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Regional Economic Inequality, Growth Theory and Technological Change

Castro, Eduardo Anselmo de; Jensen-Butler, Chris - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1999

embodied and disembodied technical change. These concepts are related to differences in regional socio-economic environments …

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National Competitiveness, Dynamics of Adjustment and Long-term Economic Growth: Conceptual, Empirical and Policy Issues

Howes, C.; Singh, A. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 1999

Although the concept of national competitiveness is widely used by policy-makers at both the national and international levels, it has been the subject of severe criticism by Professor Krugman. He regards it as a meaningless concept and in the hands of naïve policy-makers 'a dangerous...

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The Level of Development and the Determinants of Productivity Growth

Ahmed, Habib; Miller, Stephen M. - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 1999

We examine the effects of technology on productivity growth by disaggregating total output into sectoral components, exploring the roles of investment and technology on productivity growth for countries in different income groups. We find that for low-income countries, investment is the most...

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Environment-Friendly Behaviour and Competitiveness: A Study of Pulp and Paper Industry in India

Pradhan, Gopinath; Barik, Kaustuva - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 14 (1999) 4, pp. 481-501

prime movers of industrial growth such as technical change and economies of scale on environmental degradation. The …

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Endogenous International Technology Spillovers and Biased Technical Change in Agriculture

Meijl, Hans van; Tongeren, Frank van - In: Economic Systems Research 11 (1999) 1, pp. 31-48

-biased technical change in the receiving sectors. Trade-related knowledge transmission is introduced in an applied multi-region general …

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Patterns of Productivity Growth in the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry

Tveterås, Ragnar; Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1999

models of technical change. We argue that short term analysis must rely on models of technical change which are more flexible … technical change from year to year. Based on empirical results from an unbalanced panel of 560 Norwegian salmon farms for the … period 1985-93 we also find that flexible models of technical change are the most appropriate for short term analysis of …

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