Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 284 for “"structural change"”.
-
Structural change and unit roots
… a discussion of three problems related to structural changes and unit-roots in time-series analysis. First, it is shown under which conditions it is possible to consistently estimate the break date in a model with one structural break. It is also shown that when the errors have a unit-root, …
-
Structural Change, Trade and Real Exchange Rates
… literature have addressed the issue of real exchange rate misalignments and economic growth. Different author’s using different estimation methods have mostly found that countries which have been able to keep their real exchange rate at undervalued levels have experienced higher growth rates, …
-
Structure and Structural Change in China's Economy
"The previous three essays suggest some important linkages between nation and regional economic development; the fourth essay attempts to explore these aspects in a more formal way by examining the path of regional income inequality in China. The fourth essay employed a non-parametric method to …
-
Analyses of Structural Change: Input-Output Approaches
… major natural disasters, that cause simultaneous changes in both supply and demand, as well as changes in value-added and consumption behavior. In addition, Sequential Interindustry Model is used to trace the impact over time within a static framework. These analytical methods are applied to the …
-
CONVERGENCE IN SECTORAL LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE
… investment (FDI) on labor productivity and structural change. Chapter one studies unconditional convergence in labor productivity in cross section of countries. Using disaggregated service sector data for 101 countries, we find unconditional convergence in labor productivity for the service …
-
Decentralization, Structural Change and Regional Disparities in Colombia
The third essay analyzes the changes in inequality with respect to Colombian educational facilities between 1968 and 2000 in terms of interregional and intraregional disparities. The results indicate that spatial spillover effects increase the intra and inter regional inequalities in educational …
-
Cognitive Structural Change and the Technological Design Process
… evidence of high school students' cognitive structural change throughout the technological design-based approach to instruction. At three key intervals throughout the technological design process, students developed concept maps to document their understanding of the biology and technology …
-
Three Essays on Globalization, Structural Change, and Political Economy
… Chapter 2 focus on the role of unionization in structural change. In Chapter 1, I provide detailed dynamics by constructing an index for the degree of unionization for each sector in each region of South Korea and Taiwan. The magnitude of growth-enhancing structural change was lowered when a …
-
Modelling structural change in the U.S. demand for meat
… meat prices can explain all the observed changes in meat consumption patterns. This thesis provides a framework for modelling and testing for structural change using three commonly used demand system — a linear demand system, an inverse demand system, and the Almost Ideal Demand System …
-
Statistical Methods For Assessing Structural Change In Human & Microbial Genomes
… microbiome and captures the common structure of change within the microbiome, which provides insights to predict the change in the composition of the microbiome over time and find specific microbiome taxa that may be associated with complex diseases.</p>
-
An agent-based simulation model of structural change in agriculture
… has experienced significant fundamental structural changes in farming. Structural change encompasses evolution in distribution of farm sizes, land tenure and financial characteristics, as well as variations in demographic and production characteristics. These issues are often a source of …
-
Patterns of industrial structural change: Biobio region, Chile. 1974-1989.
… from 1973 a profound economic reform radically changed the traditional protectionism shielding the Chilean economy. This paper analyzes the adjustment of industrial firms to both trade liberalization and policy reforms for stabilization, during the military regime. The study is conducted using …
-
Essays on Productivity and Structural Change within the Services Sector
… (progressive and stagnant services sectors), structural change would not take down aggregate productivity growth further in the future for developed countries. My results also reveal that this substitutability within the services sector contributes to productivity differences between the US …
-
Regional growth theories and the measurement of regional structural change
… focuses on the measurement of structure and structural change in regional economies. Alternative methods are derived and tested, in order to observe the pattern of structural change over time, at both regional and intercountry settings, since further progress in regional growth theory will …
-
Taiwan's industrial structural change and its implication on energy intensity
… and international negotiations on global climate change might lead to an international regulation of CO2 emission. The data for this study are the 1981-1984-1986-1989-1991 29-sector input-output tables of Taiwan. I derive not only direct total energy inputs and intensities, but also total energy …
-
Integrated Assessment of Structural Change and Sustainability in the Chicago Region
… modeling is necessary to reflect the recent structural changes of economy and the nature of environmental component. Another issue is that the uncertainty and errors exist in data, assumptions and estimations in regional economic modeling. This dissertation focuses on resolving these issues …
-
Structural change in the music industry : the evolving role of the musician
… old. In its short history there have been many changes that have redefined roles, enabled fortunes to be built and caused some to be dissipated. Recording and delivery formats have gone through fundamental conceptual developments and each technological transformation has generated both positive …
-
From the ground up : an agent-based model of regional structural change
… with the reality of farm consolidation and other structural adjustments. While structural adjustment may result in increased productivity at the farm-level, the declining farm population has a direct impact on rural regions. Given the economic difficulties now inherent in many rural regions, there …
Page 1 of 15