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factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … during the 1980s industry level factors largely explained variations in entry rates, but that, following the economic …
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Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...
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In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs …
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, the paper uses both aggregate and industry‐specific data to gauge the effects of yen fluctuations on the output and … exports of different Japanese industries, exploiting new data for industry‐specific real effective exchange rates. Our … that have contributed to a hollowing out of Japanese industry, a strong yen played a role, too. …
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Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...
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This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted U- shaped relationship between temperature and TFP and...
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In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called "brilliant" new technologies associated...
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and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets … working conditions for all firms in an industry. This paper employs newly developed quantile regression approaches to … investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …
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We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend - also known as Petty's law - is not...
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This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
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