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It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However, evidence suggest that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends together. A big-push type of model, featuring...
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Since the mid 1990s labor productivity growth in Sweden has been high compared to Japan, the US and the western EU-countries. While productivity growth has been rapid in manufacturing, it has been much slower in the service sector. Paradoxically, all employment growth since the mid 1990s has...
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Firms having significant shareholdings in one another is not an unusual phenomenon in countries where the law admits such ownership arrangements, like Sweden and Japan. In this paper the role of cross-ownership as means for deterring takeovers is examined in the framework of a simple two-firm,...
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This paper studies the relative importance of tax incentives as merger motives in the Swedish industry during the period 1983-1987. Several econometric models are estimated and statistical tests performed. The tax-hypothesis is contrasted with an alternative hypothesis, suggested by Jensen,...
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We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden …
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Dans ce document, on etudie l'evolution de la structure industrielle du secteur canadien de la transformation des aliments et le lien entre cette evolution et le changement technologique. On utilise egalement les donnees d'une enquete speciale menee en 1998 sur l'utilisation de la technologie de...
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Ce document comprend un examen des facteurs qui sous-tendent l'echec d'une entreprise ainsi qu'une comparaison des mecanismes qui menent a la faillite des jeunes entreprises et des plus anciennes. Il donne a penser qu'il existe des differences systematiques entre les determinants des faillites...
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L'analyse de donnees administratives devenues disponibles recemment dans un certain nombre de pays a mene a la conclusion qu'une etude minutieuse de l'interaction entre les caracteristiques de l'employeur et celles des employes est necessaire pour bien interpreter les resultats observes sur le...
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Les economistes du travail ont elabore des modeles theoriques complexes et mene des analyses econometriques tres avancees pour analyser le processus de prise de decisions par les menages. Toutefois, a cet accent mis sur l'element offre du marche du travail n'ont pas correspondu des analyses...
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