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countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied … technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises from Ethiopia over the period 1996-2004 and deploying System Generalized … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role …
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issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household … survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … non-migrants – that is, "the winner takes it all." This result should be of concern to policy makers in Ethiopia and …
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This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
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We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
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across space in both countries. In Ethiopia rural non-farm enterprises are more productive in locations where farms are less … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
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household data for Ethiopia, that in fact use of formal institutions and ROSCAs can co-exist, even in the same household. We …
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This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique micro longitudinal database consisting of 532 top European R&D investors. The main conclusions...
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
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This report introduces two of the most successful industrial development models of the modern time - the Japanese as a leader and the South Korean as its follower. The objective is to review the industrialization process in these two economies which have served as a model for development in many...
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Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative 'big data' resources to...
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