| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP1065
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| DP1065 Strategic Environmental Policy and International Trade - The Role of Market Conduct |
| Alistair Mitchell Ulph
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| 发表日期 | 1994-11-30
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| 出版年 | 1994
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | In this paper we relate trends in the accumulation of human capital in Britain, Germany and the United States to overall production strategy and productivity trends. In the United States a strategy of standardized mass production led to high levels of labour productivity and concentration on the development of managerial capabilities, but neglect of the skills of the shop-floor labour force, while in Britain and Germany concentration on craft production led to greater emphasis on shop-floor skills. After the Second World War, however, British firms made an unsuccessful move towards standardized mass production. Since shop-floor skills were neglected, British firms were left in a weak position to take advantage of the recent switch of technological leadership away from American mass production methods to German modern craft production or `flexible production' methods, intensive in the use of skilled shop-floor labour within a small batch industrial environment. British manufacturing also adopted an American style `mission oriented' approach to R&D in contrast to the German style `diffusion oriented' approach, which helped to reinforce the move away from craft production. Since the 1980s, Britain has returned to a more skilled labour intensive strategy but still has a large skills gap to make good. |
| 关键词 | Human capital
Manufacturing
Productivity
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp1065
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/530207
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Alistair Mitchell Ulph. DP1065 Strategic Environmental Policy and International Trade - The Role of Market Conduct. 1994.
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