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International trade, technical change and wage inequality in the U.K. economy
Engelmann, Sabine - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper examines the joint impact of international trade and technical change on U.K. wages across different skill groups. International trade is measured as changes in product prices and technical change as total factor productivity (TFP) growth. We take account of a multi-sector and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592423
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International trade, technical change and wage inequality in the U.K. economy
Engelmann, Sabine - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper examines the joint impact of international trade and technical change on U.K. wages across different skill groups. International trade is measured as changes in product prices and technical change as total factor productivity (TFP) growth. We take account of a multi-sector and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641646
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Engines of liberation redux when home appliances prices are endogenous (Einfluss des Preises von Haushaltsgeräten auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen)
Buttet, Sebastien; Dolar, Veronika - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 48 (2015) 1, pp. 27-40
"We propose a model of the household where the transmission mechanism between home appliances and women's labor supply is identical to the one in Greenwood et al. (2005b) with one important exception. We explicitly model firms' pricing and output choices in the appliances sector and thus, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204407
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Corporate governance in the UK : contrasted with the US system
Franks, Julian; Mayer, Colin - In: CESifo Forum 3 (2002) 3, pp. 13-22
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998672
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Public–private partnerships and public sector management reform: a comparative perspective
English, Linda M.; Skellern, Matthew - In: International Journal of Public Policy 1 (2005) 1/2, pp. 1-21
, Australia, USA and France. In some countries the term PPP is used to describe partnerships that provide infrastructure and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130288
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Steel market and global trends of leading geo-economic players
Coccia, Mario - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 7 (2014) 1, pp. 36-52
.95%) and steel use finished products (CHN 9.38%; ITA 1.65%), whereas the USA have higher average annual growth of imports (13 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817109
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A case of 'No man's land' in economics: price indexes and their applications
Lizardi, Carlos Guerrero De - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 5 (2014) 2, pp. 144-156
Even though price indexes are one of the great inventions of economics, the theory of index numbers and its … applications are ignored by the average economist. While in contrast, the theory of economic index numbers has attracted some of … the best minds over the years. Therefore, it seems that in economics, theory of price indexes and its applications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010797733
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Institutionalisation of XBRL in the USA and UK
Abdullah, Aminah; Khadaroo, Iqbal; Shaikh, Junaid - In: International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting 1 (2009) 3, pp. 292-304
This paper examines the institutionalisation of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) in the USA and UK. It … between the two countries. XBRL seems to have taken deeper root in the USA than the UK primarily because of the relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005048660
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High-tech IPOs in the USA, UK and Europe after the dot-com bubble
Pilbeam, Keith; Nagle, Frank - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 4 (2009) 1, pp. 64-75
the USA and Europe in the post-bubble era. We compare the results of the 2002?2005 post-bubble period with those of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005048907
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A 'macro' analysis of the use of XBRL
Abdullah, Aminah; Khadaroo, Iqbal; Shaikh, Junaid M. - In: International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting 1 (2008) 2, pp. 213-223
the USA and UK and highlights some directions for further research. It finds that the pace of XBRL adoption across … USA as compared to the UK. Moreover, XBRL seems to be widely used in the financial services sector as compared to others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005751511