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This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political institutions during three political regimes and assesses the industrial sector's performance across these different regimes. Further, it evaluates the different industrial...
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a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …
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We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … - similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …
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Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering … importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …
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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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Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher imports increases the share of formal manufacturing enterprise employment in India. This formal share...
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respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition from China. Although foreign-born population headcounts fell by …
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Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...
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, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …
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China's remarkable run of persistently high growth in recent decades is all the more stunning in light of the country …
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