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Efficiency of Large Scale Manufacturing in Pakistan : A Production Frontier Approach
Mahmood, Tariq; Ghani, Ejaz; Din, Musleh-ud - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production frontier approach. A stochastic production frontier is estimated for two periods1995-96 and 2000-01for 101 industries at the 5-digit PSIC. The results show that there has been...
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Decomposition of Energy Consumption and Energy Intensity in Indian Manufacturing Industries
Ray, Binay Kumar; Reddy, B. Sudhakara - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Of the total final energy consumption in India, the industrial sector accounts for about 37 percent, of which the manufacturing sector consumes about 66 percent (2004-2005 figures) with chemicals and petrochemicals, iron and steel, pulp and paper and cement industries being the largest energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365542
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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity
Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is shown there are significant differences in wages and human development measures to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277966
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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity
Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is shown there are significant differences in wages and human development measures to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278236
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Export Competitiveness in the Indian auto-component industry : Does Low Wage Cost matter?
Saripalle, Madhuri - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
costs, any difference in export performances could arise because of higher productivity of labor. The paper tests whether … multinational firms, it is not just cheap labor in terms of low wage rate per worker, but low wage in relation to productivity of … more than the productivity of the labor. Among other factors discussed, of the reasons is the low value added nature of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363327
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Exports, Productivity, and Credit Constraints : A Firmâ€ÂLevel Empirical Investigation of China
Li, Zhiyuan; Yu, Miaojie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Recent Melitz-type (2003) intra-industry heterogonous trade models argue that a firm's productivity has significant … effects on the firm's exports. This paper examines how a firms credit constraints as well as its productivity affect its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363394
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Processing Trade, Firms Productivity, and Tariff Reductions : Evidence from Chinese Products
Yu, Miaojie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper explores how processing trade, jointly with tariff reduction, can improve a firm's productivity. Tariff … reductions generate productivity gain via competition, whereas processing export does so via spillovers. Using mostly …% increase in a firm's productivity gain. In addition, processing firms enjoy significant productivity gains via spillovers, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363477
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Japan’s Economic Growth and Information Technology Potential Despite Fumbled Innovation
Shinozaki, Akihiko - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
. Second, growth accounting analysis reveals that information technology has not contributed changes of productivity growth … the productivity growth until the late 1980s. Third, estimation of the production function model proves that IT capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363669
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Processing Trade, Firm's Productivity, and Tariff Reductions : Evidence from Chinese Products
Yu, Miaojie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper explores how processing trade, jointly with tariff reduction, can improve a firm's productivity. Tariff … reductions generate productivity gain via competition, whereas processing export does so via spillovers. Using mostly …% increase in a firm's productivity gain. In addition, processing firms enjoy significant productivity gains via spillovers, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363933
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Short term gain, long term pain? Impact of New Zealand’s fiscal stimulus - A dynamic general equilibrium analysis
Giesecke, James; Schilling, Chris - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
spending cuts and productivity improvements, tax reforms, and asset sales. We find that a policy that reduces the cost of …-targeted spending on infrastructure to deliver long run productivity improvements. Given New Zealands longer term growth challenge, any … fiscal efforts to stabilise the economy and avoid a more severe recession should have productivity at the centre of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363981