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When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique

Horn Welch, Karen; McMillan, Margaret; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Mozambique liberalized its cashew sector in the early 1990s in response to pressure from the World Bank. Opponents of the reform have argued that the policy did little to benefit poor cashew farmers while bankrupting factories in urban areas. Using a welfare-theoretic framework, we analyse the...

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Industries at the World Technology Frontier: Measuring R&D Efficiency in a Non-Parametric DEA Framework

Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

manufacturing. Using a unique industry dataset compiled from EU KLEMS and PATSTAT, it explores which countries and industries reveal … Denmark have the highest R&D efficiency on average in total manufacturing. However, sector-specific efficiency scores reveal …

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Human Capital and Productivity in Manufacturing during the Twentieth Century: Britain, Germany and the United States

Broadberry, Stephen N; Wagner, Karin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

environment. British manufacturing also adopted an American style `mission oriented' approach to R&D in contrast to the German …

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Wage Gaps and Job Sorting in African Manufacturing

Benhassine, Najy; Fafchamps, Marcel; Söderbom, Måns - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Using matched employer-employee data from eleven African countries, we investigate if there is job sorting in African labor markets. We find that much of the wage gap correlated with education is driven by selection across occupations and firms. This is consistent with educated workers being...

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TFP Growth in British and German Manufacturing, 1950-96

Crafts, Nicholas; Mills, Terence C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The Paper considers the accuracy of traditional TFP growth estimates using an econometric methodology which takes account of scale economies, fixed factors of production and adjustment costs to reveal underlying ‘pure technological change’. The results suggest that these biases vary...

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European Integration and Trade Flows

Neven, Damien J; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

We study a model of intra-European trade flows and trade between Europe and the rest of the world for 29 manufacturing …

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Price Competition, Innovation and Profitability: Theory and UK Evidence

Symeonidis, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

&D-intensive manufacturing industries, while it caused a significant rise in concentration in these industries. In the short run profitability …

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Manufacturing and the Convergence Hypothesis: What the Long Run Data Show

Broadberry, Stephen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

manufacturing sector, where there is evidence of a much greater degree of stationarity of comparative labour productivity … manufacturing suggest that convergence of GDP per worker must have occurred through trends in other sectors and through …

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Comparative Productivity in East and West German Manufacturing Before Reunification

Van Ark, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

manufacturing industries. The comparisons are based on the industry of origin approach which makes use of information on value added … are based on values at producer prices for individually matched products. This study shows that for the manufacturing … German time series on real output in manufacturing to a factor cost standard, the comparative productivity level of East …

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Do Exporters Gain From VERs?

de Melo, Jaime; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Previous literature has concentrated on the rent transfer accruing to exporting countries when a VER is binding. This paper studies the efficiency and distributional effects arising when VERs force factors out of industries in which they are most productive. A theoretical model of the industry...

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