Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980 Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural and urban sectors but within the urban economy as well. Research on the trend has focuse...

The Industrial Revolution began in the last half of eighteenth century in the United Kingdom where the steam engine and other mechanical innovations dramatically increased industrial output and drastically change social systems. The second wave of industrialization came with mass production methods represented especially by the electrical and automotive industry at the beginning of the twentiet...

W study markets for information goods and find that they differ significantly from markets for traditional industrial goods. Markets for information goods in which products are vertically differentiated lack the segmentation inherent in markets for industrial goods. As a result, a monopoly will offer only a single product. Competition leads to highly concentrated information-good markets, with ...

A tutorial account of variable structure control with sliding mode is presented in this paper. The purpose is to introduce in a concise manner the fundamental theory, main results, and practical applications of this powerful control system design approach. This approach is particularly attractive for the control of nonlinear systems. Prominent characteristics such as invariance, robustness, ord...

The investigation by E. Dietzenbacher et al. (2004) has shown the decline of the U.S. labor share for a term of 1982-1997 in spite of the rise of labor productivity. This controversial observation must be inquired to be valid for the other economy or not, and it should be explained for those dynamic causes of change. This research adopted the extended multiplicative structural decomposition ana...

This article presents a model of the structure of information fluxes that underlie the creation of production chains in a textile district located in Prato, Tuscany, central Italy. Contrary to most textile districts in western Europe and north America, Prato did not extinct once average salaries in the region rose well above the world’s lowest standards. The reason is that Prato was able to swi...

Automatic control has become an important part of the modern industrial processes. Progress both in basic research as applied to automatic control, provide a way to obtain the optimum performance of the dynamical systems, improve the quality and reduce the costs. Robotics, as a part of automatics, represents nowadays an important research area, and it has an essential role in the productive mod...

We investigate the possibility that information technology changes the industrial structure of the economy in a significant way by affecting both scale and scope economies. The primary hypothesis is that the rapid growth of information technology has two opposing effects to the firm size. Information technology not only reduces external transaction costs and stimulates inter-firm transactions, ...

In this paper we investigate whether the differential evolution of child labor across Brazilian states between 1980 and 2000 can be explained by their different patterns of specialization in industries where children have a comparative advantage. We find that the adoption of different industries mixes by different states accounts for 20% to 30% of the observed variation in child labor in rural ...