"... In PAGE 4: ...able 3. Correlation between manufacturing and services FDI in various sectors..................................... 34 Table4 .... In PAGE 40: ... The increased use of the internet for purchasing intermediary inputs clearly reflects fragmentation facilitated by services. The quantitative analysis also highlights that manufacturing FDI correlates highly with telecommunication services FDI (Table 3) and that a restrictive telecommunication sector reduces manufacturing FDI ( Table4 ). And while the internet benefits firms of all sizes, SMEs characterised by low capital and fixed costs rely particularly strongly on telecommunications services to sell products internationally.... ..."

"... In PAGE 12: ....2.6. Summary. In Table3 we set out a list of the factors we have discussed in this section along with their impact on unemployment. When we come to look more closely at what has happened in the Netherlands and the UK, it is clear from Table 3 that we should focus particularly on changes in the benefit systems of the two countries and their wage bargaining structures.... In PAGE 12: ....2.6. Summary. In Table 3 we set out a list of the factors we have discussed in this section along with their impact on unemployment. When we come to look more closely at what has happened in the Netherlands and the UK, it is clear from Table3 that we should focus particularly on changes in the benefit systems of the two countries and their wage bargaining structures. Some of the other factors are perhaps of less important although the evidence on skill imbalances in Britain should be pursued as well as recent changes in labour taxes.... In PAGE 21: ... These declines appear to reflect significant falls in the equilibrium unemployment rate. Following the discussion in Section 2 (See Summary Table3 ), the key features of the labour market which we expect to influence the equilibrium unemployment rate are the wage bargaining system, the set of financial incentives implicit in the tax and social security system and the possible offsets due to active labour market policy. These have been the subjects of substantial changes in both the NL and the UK since the early 1980s, so we consider them in turn, starting with the systems of wage determination.... ..."

"... In PAGE 5: ... It is natural to begin by looking at the patterns in individuals apos; unemployment experiences in Eastern Europe. To provide a benchmark, Table3 reports estimated microeconometric unemployment equations for the Western nations plus East Germany. It does so using a randomly selected sample of just under 100,000 men and women from fourteen nations over the 1990s.... In PAGE 5: ... It does so using a randomly selected sample of just under 100,000 men and women from fourteen nations over the 1990s. The nations are listed within Table3 . In this Table, the base or omitted country is the United Kingdom.... In PAGE 5: ... In this Table, the base or omitted country is the United Kingdom. What are the patterns in the West? Table3 contains microeconometric unemployment regressions. Ordinary least squares estimates are presented for simplicity.... In PAGE 5: ... Formal probit equations are available from the authors. The dependent variable in Table3 measures whether the individual who is being sampled reports themselves as unemployed. The variable can take one of two values.... In PAGE 6: ... Age also matters. Individuals are least likely to be unemployed in the West if their ages fall within the band of 40 to 49 (this is the omitted category in Table3 , so implicitly is a coefficient of zero compared to the others). The young are much more likely, Table 3 reveals, to be without work.... In PAGE 6: ... Individuals are least likely to be unemployed in the West if their ages fall within the band of 40 to 49 (this is the omitted category in Table 3, so implicitly is a coefficient of zero compared to the others). The young are much more likely, Table3 reveals, to be without work.... In PAGE 6: ...n this case the coefficient is approximately 0.06. The only other point to be noted is that, unsurprisingly, people older than 70 are noticeably less likely than others to be unemployed. The other coefficients in Table3 -- running from Belgium to West Germany -- are the apos;pure apos; country unemployment rates. These dummy variable coefficients allow us to read off the unemployment differences across nations after controlling for personal and compositional variations by country.... In PAGE 7: ...The year dummies in Table3 capture the aggregate cyclical movements in unemployment across Europe. Year 1990 is the omitted category.... In PAGE 7: ... Non-European countries are included. Table 4 provides a similar unemployment regression to that used in Table3 . Approximately 45,000 individuals are sampled.... In PAGE 7: ...egression to that used in Table 3. Approximately 45,000 individuals are sampled. Again the data run through the first half of the 1990s. Table 4 has the same kind of implications as Table3 . The countries differ slightly, however.... In PAGE 7: ... There is a tiny positive effect from being male. Age dummies and year dummies work in the way they did in Table3 . Once more, approximately 5% of the variance is being explained.... ..."

"... In PAGE 10: ....3.1 Prefetching Prefetching by itself does not yield significant ben- efits. As shown in Table4 , it did not reduce render- ing start-time latency. With prefetching alone, the client browser effectively stalls while the VM browser down- loads and renders the page fully in the proxy.... ..."

"... In PAGE 16: ... While the available data (4) does not demonstrate statistically significant impacts on wages, the effects of broadband availability by 1999 can also be observed in (5) higher market rates for rental housing (a proxy for property values) in 2000 on simple regression results. Table15 summarizes the estimated magnitude of impacts resulting from our analysis at the zip code level, after controlling for other community-level factors known to affect both broadband availability and economic outcomes, including income, education, and urban vs. rural character.... ..."

"... In PAGE 14: ... Broadband After a slow start broadband uptake is increasing rapidly. Recent statistics show that the overall broadband growth rate in companies was 103% in 2003 ( Table5 ), with comparable or even faster growth of broadband users in the household sector. Compared with other European countries broadband penetration in Italy shows very rapid increase from a low base (Figure 11), although the position of Italy compared with other OECD countries could improve further (see Annex Figure).... ..."