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Trends in Australian Manufacturing
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
Australian manufacturing is a picture of diversity and contrasts. This is the main finding of this paper which examines trends in the Australian manufacturing sector over the last two decades. Manufacturing output has quadrupled since the mid-1950s. The fastest growing activities have been those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407814
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The increasing demand for skilled workers in Australia: the role of technical change
Laine, Craig de; Laplagne, Patrick; Stone, Susan - EconWPA - 2001
been a shift toward employment of skilled workers in Australia, as well as in many other industrialised economies. While it … paper shows other factors are at work. Changing employment patterns are more closely associated with a pull toward skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408322
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Work Arrangements in the Australian Meat Processing Industry
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This report examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of meat processing enterprises. The effects on employees are also considered, and the scope to achieve further necessary change is analysed. The study has drawn on information obtained from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561801
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Work arrangements in container stevedoring
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This study examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of container stevedoring workplaces. The effects on employees and users of stevedoring services are also considered, and impediments to achieving improved work arrangements are analysed. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561840
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IMPORTING JOBS AND EXPORTING FIRMS? ON THE WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF ITALY’S TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS
Helg, Rodolfo; Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M.; … - EconWPA - 2001
International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556434
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IMPORTING JOBS AND EXPORTING FIRMS? ON THE WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF ITALY’S TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS
Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M.; Galeotti, Marzio; … - EconWPA - 2001
International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556481
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The role of technology in determining skilled employment: an economywide approach
Laplagne, Patrick; Marshall, Peter; Stone, Susan - EconWPA - 2001
workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is … production has also promoted the employment of more highly skilled workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125725
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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality
Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002
to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover … status or a smaller network, then that group's drop-out rate will be higher and their employment prospects and wages will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135002
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Work arrangements on large capital city building projects
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
The study examines the relationship between work arrangements and workplace performance on large capital building sites.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135099
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De-industrialisation III
Stanners, Walter - EconWPA - 2002
employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407637