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An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment : Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector

Clayton, Tony - 2009

We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we could get more GDP without innovation by simply...

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Productivity and Trade Orientation in UK Manufacturing

Rizov, Marian - 2007

Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries. We use the FAME data on UK companies over the period 1994-2003. Following Ackerberg et al. (2005) we adjust the algorithm in Olley...

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Imports as Product and Labor Market Discipline

Boulhol, Herve; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2021

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...

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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …

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Manufacturing Employment and Women's Agency : Evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014

Grogan, Louise Anne - 2022

allocation of household resources and own health …

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Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2017

The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in import-competing than in export-oriented branches. We first document the individual-level job transitions behind those trends. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who...

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Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany

Heywood, John S. - 2017

of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training …

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...

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Institutions and Development in MENA Region : Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector

Arayssi, Mahmoud - 2015

This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The results reveal that English civil law origin and the...

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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S

Dyballa, Katharina - 2018

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...

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