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Why some firms export? : an empirical analysis for manufacturing firms in the MENA region
Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - 2013
This paper analyzes the exporting behaviour of manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. It specifically examines the factors that determine the probability of exporting and the export intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697662
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Who is to suffer? : quantifying the impact of sanctions on German firms
Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Mösle, Saskia - 2023
and intensive margin of German exports. While the negative effects are strongest for firms exporting products subject to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279934
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Exports and labor demand : evidence from Egyptian firm-level data
Berg, Claudia; Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys - 2022
. In this paper, we build upon the earlier work of Robertson et al. (2021) to investigate why increased Egyptian exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414940
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What factors influence firm perceptions of labour market constraints to growth in the MENA region?
Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - 2015
Labour market constraints constitute prominent obstacles to firm development and economic growth of countries located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This paper aims at examining the implications of firm characteristics, national locations, and sectoral associations for the...
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Can the UAE avoid the oil curse by economic diversification?
Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has...
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Growth with equity : income inequality in Vietnam, 2002-14
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016
We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus on two questions: How have benefits from growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594144
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The plant-level view of Korea's growth miracle and slowdown
Lee, Munseob; Shin, Yongseok - 2023
We analyze the evolution of the plant size distribution, static allocative efficiency, and business dynamism of the Korean manufacturing sector during its growth miracle (1967–2000) and the subsequent slowdown since 2000. The average plant size has an inverse-U pattern over time, uncorrelated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014420533
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Self-Selection into export markets by business services firms : evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...
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The microstructure of the great export collapse in German manufacturing industries, 2008/2009
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown … that Idiosyncratic shocks to very large firms played a decisive role in shaping the export collapse. -- exports ; great …
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