The existence and persistence of large spatial disparities in unemployment within national economies is a central issue in regional economics. Previous empirical analyses have largely disregarded the role of fundamentals. On the contrary in this paper we explore the link between labour productivity, international trade and regional unemployment differentials. We base our empirical analysis on t...

Abstract Labour market regulation constrains small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) ability to minimize redundant labour. However, it is often neglected that many SMEs might circumvent these constraints by accessing a business group’s internal labour (ILM). In this study, we analyse whether with ILM access—i.e., an increasing number of sister group companies in the same subnational region-i...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow domestic firms...

The common perception, particularly among employers of labour is that enforcement or implementation of enhanced labour standards would negatively impact on overhead costs thereby impeding the organisation’s competitive advantage through price mechanisms at both national and global marketplace. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis and draw inherent relationships between enforcemen...

This paper exploits variation in U.S. branching deregulation to test whether the diversion of talent into banks and away from real sectors affects the labour productivity of manufacturing industries. I find that the relaxation of interstate branching restrictions disproportionately reduces the labour productivity of industries which are relatively skill-intensive. This suggests that the real se...

INTRODUCTION Stem cell transplantation has been used for many years to treat haematological malignancies that could not be cured by other treatments. Despite this medical breakthrough, mortality rates remain high. Our purpose was to evaluate labour productivity losses associated with premature mortality due to blood cancer in recipients of stem cell transplantations. METHODS We collected prim...