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Four Futures of the Netherlands
... steady de-industrialisation. in addition, parts of manufacturing face heavy foreign competition from low-wage countries. some manufacturing industries have largely disappeared from the netherlands. this process ... whether prosperity can still rise when increasing competition leads to outsourcing of activities abroad and to loss of employment in certain sectors, such as manufacturing. economic ...
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cpb book labour market flexibility netherlands 0 pdf
... costly to adjust the size of their workforce. this may hamper employment in new economic activities. public policy aimed at productivity growth focuses on monitoring of labour productivity, the acquisition of ... labour costs an additional reason for employers to hire temporary workers may be the relatively low wage costs. the flexibility offered by a temporary job is an advantage to the employer and ...
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Microsoft Word - discussion161.doc
... 1998).4 this proximity effect is counterbalanced by the possible cost advantage of offshoring activities to low-wage countries. it depends on the balance between proximity and cost advantages whether ... (2001) shows that this relationship is particularly present in production processes involving skilled activities; low-skilled work is moving to cheaper places (the standardised nature of the work ...
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Microsoft Word - discussion165.doc
... output of artists (measured by number of paintings, albums, books), and performance in sports activities. for instance, oster and hamermesh (1984) find a declining age-productivity relationship for ... adopted by firms. the main contrast is between high-wage, low-mobility firms where returns to tenure are low (even negative) and low-wage, high-mobility firms where returns to tenure are relatively ...
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Research Memorandum (set-up) [PFP#210045728]
... 50%, a large part of the labour force is stuck in informal, low-productive activities and protection by means of import tariffs is high. in the globalisation scenario ... sectors in which wages exceed median wage are classified as high wage. the sectors in which wages are a most median wage are classified as low- wage. comparingthethreeclassificationswecandrawthe following conclusions. the sector ...
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analyzing fiscal policy netherlands simulations revised mimic pdf
... activities contribute to human capital accumulation (see de mooij, 1997). more human capital yields higher wage ... wage income. from the time-allocation model, we can derive the following steady-state relationship between training activities and formal labor (6)t lf 11 according to (6), training activities ... of them have part- time jobs with relatively low wage incomes. at the margin, these incomes are ...
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122 Agricultural relationships [PFP#1190832375]
... to specialize in lowtech bulk products. in that case they will have to compete with low-wage countries which offer the same products at a lower price5 . of course, an underlying ... of agricultural activities. in germany about 3000 persons are involved in agricultural research activities. one third of them works at government institutions, and more than 800 are engaged in research activities at ...
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N:\...\discussion17.wp [PFP#331423159]
... moderate their wage claims.6 an alternative explanation is that european integration makes it easier for firms to locate their activities elsewhere in europe. thus, firms can escape excessive wage ... of low wage competition from the central and eastern european countries. figure 4.1 real wage growth and labour productivity growth source european commission (1999) 4.2 why engage in international wage ...
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Research Memorandum (set-up)
... private savings, and a high proportion of the population in agriculture or other low-wage activities' are important elements in the east-asian success story. also young (1993, 1994) ... . labour reallocation is spurred by improving productivity in sectors that directly compete with low-wage activities. simulations with the model establish that labour reallocation magnifies the direct income effect ...
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cpb discussion paper 196 wage inequality trade tasks models pdf
... column), at three different offshoring levels. low-skill share pld phd high-skill share low offshoring level low-skill share pld phd high-skill share low offshoring level low-skill share pld phd high-skill ... ), which summa- rizes the wage effects of the grh model. when we move away from the small-country assumption prices react to the exogenous change in offshoring activities and we now have ...
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