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covering 26 provinces over the period 1977-2010.  This new dataset allows us to distinguish between mining and non-mining … sectors of the economy.  We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality.  In contrast, overall … growth and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality.  We also identify growth acceleration …
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exogenous and trade-induced, on the skill premium and real wages of unskilled and skilled workers in the Mexican manufacturing … sector, using industry- and firm-level data for 1984-1990 from the Encuesta Industrial Anual.  The novelty of the paper lies …
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In this paper we ask what can account for the continuing strong preference for academic education in Africa where the level of development is so low and there are few wage jobs and which form of educational investment, the academic or vocational, is most profitable.  We argue that the answers...
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Combining data from the Moroccan census of manufacturing enterprises with information from a commune survey, we test …
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This paper tests whether manufacturing exports pay more to educated workers in an effort to ascertain whether the …
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labour force data from Tanzania`s manufacturing sector. The first is vocational training or attending a technical college as …
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We construct a unique panel dataset to examine how R&D and intellectual property (IP), via patents and trade marks, increase firm productivity. Knowledge has public good characteristics of non-depletability and non-excludability. Even with IP, imitation and inventing around other firm`s products...
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This paper uses novel data on trade mark activity of UK manufacturing and service sector firms to investigate whether … the short run greater IP activity by other firms in the industry reduces the value added of the firm, but this same …
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this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how …
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sectional analysis of the post-war experience of manufacturing in OECD economies and this is consistent with a body of time …
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