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Bassi, Vittorio; Lee, Jay; Peter, Alessandra; Porzio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We …

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Exports and Foreign Investment in Manufacturing Industries

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1976

One of the main purposes of our studies of U.S.-based multinational firms has been to examine the relationship between direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the last fifteen years. Changes over time in trade flows...

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Entrepreneurship in China's Structural Transitions : Network Expansion and Overhang

Dai, Ruochen; Mookherjee, Dilip; Munshi, Kaivan; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This research examines the determinants of entrepreneurship in the initial transition from agriculture to industrial production and the subsequent transition to higher value exporting in China. Using data covering the universe of registered firms over the 1994-2009 period, we find that...

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Quality Change and other Influences on Measures of Export Prices of Manufactured Goods and the Terms of Trade between Primary Products and Manufacture

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1994

Measures of long term trends in world export prices of manufactured goods and in the terms of trade between manufactured goods and primary products are sensitive to the choice of country weights and of base periods and, most important of all, the treatment of quality change. Later base periods...

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New Measurement of Export Participation in U.S. Manufacturing

Boehm, Christoph E.; Flaaen, Aaron; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We measure export participation rates in the U.S. manufacturing sector using a new administrative dataset and compare … reconsidering the conventional wisdom that around 20 percent of manufacturing firms export …

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Africa's Manufacturing Puzzle : Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms

Diao, Xinshen; Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light … on this puzzle, we disaggregate firms in the manufacturing sector by size using two newly created panels of manufacturing … firms, one for Tanzania covering 2008-2016 and one for Ethiopia covering 1996-2017. Our analysis reveals a dichotomy between …

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Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa

Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2007

Using a matched employer-employee data set of manufacturing plants in three sub-Saharan countries, I compare the … not at all for the least developed country (Tanzania). Moreover, the breakdown in correct remuneration in the two least …

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Sectoral Development Multipliers

Buera, Francisco; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...

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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil

Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...

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Learning from Ricardo and Thompson : Machinery and Labor in the Early Industrial Revolution, and in the Age of AI

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

David Ricardo initially believed machinery would help workers but revised his opinion, likely based on the impact of automation in the textile industry. Despite cotton textiles becoming one of the largest sectors in the British economy, real wages for cotton weavers did not rise for decades. As...

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