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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 marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. A methodological contribution is to estimate the firm level production function jointly with the...

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Trade Policy and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rodrik, Dani - 1998

This study focuses on the role of trade and trade policy in achieving sustained long-term growth in Africa. One major conclusion is that trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa works much the same way that it does elsewhere. High levels of trade restrictions have been an important obstacle to exports...

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The Relative Sophistication of Chinese Exports

Schott, Peter K. - 2006

, I compare China's export bundle to those of the relatively skill- and capital-abundant members of the OECD as well as to …

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Currency Diversification and Export Competitiveness : A Model of the "Egyptian Disease"

de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 1981

The paper presents a dynamic portfolio model under currency inconvertibility which rationalizes the recent Egyptian experience of real exchange rate appreciation and currency diversification following the increase in oil exports and the partial financial liberalization that took place after...

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Upstart Industrialization and Exports, Japan 1880-1910

Meissner, Christopher M. - 2017

that changes in various extensive margins (new markets, new goods) account for over 30 percent of export growth over this …-level characteristics interacting with destination-specific characteristics. We confirm that export growth for "new" products was stronger …

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Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Plants

Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2003

frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level …. However intuitive the argument, empirical evidence is meager. This hypothesis is examined by calculating the effect of export … increase their productivity advantage after entry into the export market. While the first finding can be explained by selection …

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Routes of Infection : Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Oster, Emily - 2007

I generate new data on HIV incidence and prevalence in Africa based on inference from mortality rates. I use these data to relate economic activity (specifically, exports) to new HIV infections in Africa and argue there is a significant and large positive relationship between the two: a doubling...

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Export diversification and the new protectionism : the experiences of Latin America

Baer, Werner (contributor); Gillis, Malcolm (contributor) - 1981

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From Groundnuts to Globalization : A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth

Broda, Christian - 2006

Starting with Romer [1987] and Rivera-Batiz-Romer [1991] economists have been able to model how trade enhances growth through the creation and import of new varieties. In this framework, international trade increases economic output through two channels. First, trade raises productivity levels...

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Pound for Pound Export Diversification

Anderson, James E. - 2020

We propose a short-run model of the extensive margin of trade and deploy it to distinguish and quantify domestic and cross-border margins. Our empirical focus is on the domestic extensive margin of trade (domestic distribution of a product) and its importance for quantifying policy and...

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