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United States Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics - Charting International Labor Comparisons (2012 Edition)

United States / Bureau of Labor Statistics - 2003

Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...

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Why labour hoarding may be rational: A model offirm behaviour during transition

Namazie, Ceema Zahra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

In the Former Soviet Union, the early 1990s were characterized by largefalls in GDP and small changes to already low unemployment. The slowadjustment to unemployment was a result of employers using variousmeans to maintain employment levels, including; extended periods ofunpaid leave, reduced...

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Labor Demand During the Crisis:What Happened in Germany?

Bohachova, Olga; Boockmann, Bernhard; Buch, Claudia M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared toother industrialized countries. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardlychanged. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms’ labor demand duringthe crisis using a firm-level panel...

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Macroeconomic Implications of Shifts in the Relative Demand for Skills

Blanchard, Olivier - Massachusetts Institute of Technology <Cambridge, … - 1995

wideningwage inequality. I shall do so in six points.[...] …

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REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING FOR HYBRIDPRODUCTS AS BUNDLES OF HARDWARE, SOFTWAREAND SERVICE ELEMENTS – A LITERATURE REVIEW

Berkovich, Marina; Schröder-Esch, Sebastian; … - Universität <Kassel> / Fachgebiet Wirtschaftsinformatik - 2010

AbstractIn this paper we compare different approaches and show the need for systematic requirementsengineering for hybrid products beyond disciplinary boundaries. Hybrid products consist ofcombinations of hardware, software and service elements. The purpose of this paper is to report ona...

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Towards Requirements Engineering for “Softwareas a Service”

Berkovich, Marina; Schröder-Esch, Sebastian; … - Universität <Kassel> / Fachgebiet Wirtschaftsinformatik - 2010

More and more companies realign their competencies to offer integrated bundlesof products and services with the goal to solve customer problems (Leimeister etal. 2009). The customers are not interested in products or services per se, but theywant their problems to be solved (Böhmann und Krcmar...

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Ein Bezugsrahmen für Requirements Engineeringhybrider Produkte

Berkovich, Marina; Leimeister, Jan Marco; Krcmar, Helmut - Universität <Kassel> / Fachgebiet Wirtschaftsinformatik - 2010

Eine möglichst vollständige Erfüllung von Kundenanforderungen und eine Differenzierungvon Wettbewerbern sind zwei Faktoren, die produzierende oder dienstleistungsanbietendeUnternehmen beeinflussen (Böhmann und Krcmar 2007,Leimeister und Glauner 2008). Deswegen ändern viele Unternehmen ihre...

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Wirkung von Country of Origin- und Country of Brand-Effekten: Konsumgüter und Dienstleistungen im Vergleich

Ahlert, Dieter; Backhaus, Christof; Berentzen, Johannes; … - Institut für Handelsmanagement und Netzwerkmarketing …

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The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity : Evidence from Madeira Island

Budria, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro T. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates (one month, one year, and two years after the completion of the training program) depends on...

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Productivity Measurement Issues in Services Industries: “Baumol’s Disease” Has Been Cured

Triplett, Jack E.; Bosworth, Barry - Brookings Institution - 2003

[...]As we documented in a longer version of this paper (Triplettand Bosworth forthcoming), labor productivity growth … industriesexperienced productivity acceleration. Both the rate of LPimprovement in services after 1995 and its acceleration equaledthe … economywide average. That is why we said “Baumol’sDisease has been cured.”1We also examined the sources of labor productivity …

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