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for increasing participation in each of the countries. Recent rates of transition from unemployment to employment and to …
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concluded that the current EU economic and employment policies aiming at further wage restraint, wage differentiation and … part of a growth and employment oriented coordination of macro-economic policies. …
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Economies that are more open to trade and foreign direct investment face greater competitive pressure than closed ones. Globalization critics are concerned that this pressure induces countries to lower labor standards in order to remain competitive and retain or attract foreign investment....
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Based on a post-Keynesian model of the relationship between wages, prices and employment, this paper begins by studying …
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employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …
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This paper seeks to dispel some of the myths commonly harboured about service jobs, service trade and the contribution services make to productivity improvements and living standards. Services account for more than three-quarters of national output and for four out of every five jobs.
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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...
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This paper uses firm level data to investigate the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing sector employment in … magnitude of employment response following trade liberalization reforms. Our empirical results indicate that technology, as … measured by capital intensity, and the share of new capital matters relatively more than trade in accounting for employment …
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This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …
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curtailing chemical pollution, it can break the delicate ecological balance of nature. It also threatens the employment of … national control over information, and promoting employment while globalising the economy. Increases in labour productivity can … lead to cut backs in employment. In a labour surplus country like India, such improvements in efficiency can be unnecessary …
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