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employment has not kept pace with the share of the sector in gross domestic product and has not produced the number or quality of …
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This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firmlevel data for 16 European … countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …
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investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point … of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish … innovations contributed to employment reduction. Tellingly, this effect could only be observed in 2008-2009, a subperiod which saw …
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characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a … find that firms that increase imports of service inputs reduce employment of low-skill service workers, increase employment … survival. The employment composition and performance responses to service imports differ across firms in the manufacturing …
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Despite Tanzania's rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This … finds that subsectors such as trade services contribute significantly to employment despite their relatively low …
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This paper attempts to quantify the impact of fragmentation on employment. Factor demand functions for labour and … in import prices (real trade costs) has a twofold impact on labour demand: (i) substitution of domestic employment by … partly imported intermediates (= outsourcing or fragmentation) (ii) increased employment due to higher demand caused by an …
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employment creation by means of domestic and foreign investments. Using a case-study approach, we find that special economic … zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate …
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), the ‘quality’ of such integration in terms of technological capabilities and the structure of employment in European … countries and sectors. We study employment shares in fabrication and headquarter occupations in terms of functional … specialisation and employment upgrading, making two specific contributions. First, we explicitly account for pre-existing asymmetries …
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We study the response of regional employment and nominal wages to trade liberalization, exploiting the natural … less than 50 kilometers, we can identify statistically significant liberalization effects on both employment and wages …. While wages responded earlier than employment, the employment effect over the entire adjustment period is estimated to be …
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