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Industry 4.0: New Challenges and Opportunities for the Labour Market

, 2017
The introductory article to the special issue “Labour Market in the Context of Technological Transformations” presents an overall picture of the latest technological trends altogether referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), their ...
Sandrine Kergroach
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Stability or change in the Swedish Labour Market Regime? [PDF]

From the late 1970s to the early 1990s Sweden diverted from the rest of Western Europe. The employment rate was high and unemployment was kept very low. But in the early 1990s unemployment started to rise also in Sweden.
Olofsson, Jonas
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Reduction of Employment Protection in OECD Countries: Its Driving Forces [PDF]

Arbeitnehmerschutz, Arbeitslosenversicherung, Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung, OECD-Staaten, Flexicurity, Employment protection legislation, Unemployment insurance, Labour market policy, Labour market flexibility , OECD ...
Anja Rohwer, Oliver Röhn, Thomas Stratmann, Wolfgang Ochel   +3 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the impact of structural reforms [PDF]

We estimate a dynamic, intertemporal optimisation model that mimics features of European labour markets, such as sticky nominal wages and sluggish adjustment of employment to shocks for 15 OECD countries. The estimates include a measure for the degree of
Bukeviciute, Lina, Ernst, Ekkehard, Gong, Gang, Semmler, Willi   +3 more
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of patient registration on utilisation and quality of care: a propensity score matching and staggered difference-in-differences analysis of a cohort of 16,775 people with type 2 diabetes

BMC Primary Care
Background In 2012, Luxembourg introduced a Referring Doctor (RD) policy, whereby patients voluntarily register with a primary care practitioner, who coordinates patients’ health care and ensures optimal follow-up.
Valerie Moran, Michela Bia, Patrick Thill, Marc Suhrcke, Ellen Nolte, Eric Burlot, Guy Fagherazzi   +6 more
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benchmarking labour market performance and labour market policies: theoretical foundations and applications [PDF]

, 1998
Benchmarking avancierte in den vergangenen Jahren zu einem Schlüsselbegriff in der Organisationsentwicklung und im Management. Es benennt in seiner disziplinären Heimat, der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, den Vergleich der eigenen mit einer anderen Organisationseinheit zum Ziel der Verbesserung der eigenen Wettbewerbsposition.
Schütz, Holger, Speckesser, Stefan, Schmid, Günther   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources