Showing 1 - 10 of 161
In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets working conditions for all firms in an industry. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199012
This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307890
manufacturing where we confirm earlier results of no relationship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735905
This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to … manufacturing sector produces 32% of national GDP and supplies 12% of global exports. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760107
The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young … manufacturing decline in Germany. It even retained those jobs in the economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596120
productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458981
, has led to greater absorption of workers, particularly women, in manufacturing. Looking at the future of work, the current … employment in urban areas. But the ability of the manufacturing sector to engage workers will be constrained by the capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810116
, including the innovative part of manufacturing, are only influenced by changes in the cyclical component of unemployment, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853760
We describe new experimental productivity statistics, Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), jointly developed and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau. Official BLS productivity statistics provide information on aggregate productivity growth. Yet, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550217
This paper shows that African economies have generally not de-industrialized, that manufacturing growth is very … possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is … and emerging technologies. In one variety, labelled "acquiring traditional manufacturing capabilities" technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122074