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1、本科毕业论文外文翻译外文题目:Industrialstructureandeconomicstability出处:Appliedeconomicletters作者:SherrillShaffer原文:Motivatedbypriorresultspredictingcontrastinglinkagesbetweenindustrialstructureandeconomicstability,wepresentexploratoryempiricalevidenceonthisimportantissue.Consistentwiththeturnoverhypoth
2、esis,wefindthatemploymentgrewmoresteadilywherebusinessestablishmentsinallsectorswerelarger,suggestinganoffsettingbenefittothefirst-momentcostsofestablishmentsizeidentifiedbypreviousresearch.Consistentwiththejob-matchinghypothesis,wefindthatemploymentgrewmoresteadilywheremoreestablishment
3、spercapitaoperatedinallsectors.Similarbutlessconsistentresultswerealsofoundregardingthestabilityofincomegrowth.I.IntroductionandBackgroundThefundamentalimportanceofeconomicperformancehasspawnedanextensiveliteratureontheempiricaldeterminantsofeconomicgrowth(seeRajanandZingales,1998;Levine
4、etal.,2000forprominentexamples).Onerecentdiscoveryisthatcommunitiesorlocalregionstendtoexperiencemorerapidgrowthofincomeoremploymentwherebusinessesaresmaller(Shaffer,2002,2006a,b).Aseparatestrandofresearch,meanwhile,hasdemonstratedtheimportanceofstudyingthevolatilityofgrowthratesratherth
5、anmerelytheirmeans(RameyandRamey,1995;Kurz,2004;Ismihan,2005;Bekaertetal.,2006).Itisrelevantinthisregardthatseveralstudies(DavisandHaltiwanger,1992;Rob,1995;Davisetal.,1996)havefoundthatjobsatsmallerfirmstendtobelesspermanentthanatlargerfirms;whileIlmakunnasetal.(2005)havesuggestedthatsu
6、chturnovermayactuallybeonereasonforfasterproductivitygrowth,anunexploredimplicationisthatthevolatilityofemploymentandincomemaybehigherwherebusinessesaresmaller(the‘turnoverhypothesis’).Conversely,heterogeneityamongdecision-makersduetohumanfallibilitycanresultingreatervariabilityofeconomi
7、cperformanceinmorecentralizeddecisionprocesses(Sah,1991;SahandStiglitz,1991;AlmeidaandFerreira,2002),possiblysuggestingthatalocaleconomymayexhibitgreaterstabilitywheretheaveragefirmsaresmallerormorenumerous.Asimilaroutcomeispredictedtotheextentthat(a)centralizeddecisionpr