Labor Market Adjustment In High-Tech Industries: A Critical Review

Spinoff Entry in High-tech Industries: Motives and Consequences

The Financial Structure and High-Tech Industries Development in China

The transformation of economic development approach demands to develop high-tech industries, while high-tech industries can’t develop without financial support, in which different financial structures exists differences in the efficiency of high-tech industries development and support. For this reason, this paper firstly theoretically described the mechanism of financial structure’s effect on h...

An Augmented Common Weight Data Envelopment Analysis for Material Selection in High-tech Industries

Material selection is a challenging issue in manufacturing processes while the inappropriate selected material may lead to fail the manufacturing process or end user experience especially in high-tech industries such as aircraft and shipping. Every material has different quantitative and qualitative criteria which should be considered simultaneously when assessing and selecting the right materi...

Labor-market adjustment in open economies : Evidence from US states

In this paper we analyze whether regional economic integration across US states conditions local labor-market adjustment. We examine the mechanisms through which states absorb changes in labor supplies and whether industry production techniques are similar across states. There are two main findings. Firstly, states absorb changes in employment primarily through changes in production techniques ...

Intra-national labor market adjustment in the candidate countries

This paper analyzes the evolution of regional unemployment rates, wages, participation rates, migration and employment in seven candidate countries for accession to the European Union (EU) in the 1990s. We compare these countries to a core set of EU member states and find persistent regional disparities in both regions. However, persistence of unemployment rates is lower in the first-round cand...